Macbeth Film Study Questions, Part One
Directions: Respond to each of the following questions in complete sentences on a separate sheet of paper. The higher quality answers will receive higher grades.
1. Who is the director of the film?
2. Who is the executive producer ?
3. Describe the opening scene. In particular, look at the colors, the angles, the picture, and the sound. What mood is established?
4. How are the soliloquies enacted in the movie? Does this, in any way, change your understanding of their function?
5. Describe the change in tone which takes place once Macbeth discovers that he has been named the Thane of Cawdor by King Duncan. What happens to his body language?
6. How is Cawdor executed? Is this what you had imagined while reading, or is it different? What do you learn about Cawdor’s character from the way he dies?
7. What is discovered about Macbeth’s personality through his soliloquies?
8. Describe the overall tone of the film thus far.
9. Explain the symbolism of the raven.
10. Explain the symbolism of the thunder and lightening upon Duncan’s arrival to Inverness.
11. How would the story of Macbeth change if there were no soliloquies?
12. Describe the irony in Lady Macbeth’s dancing with Duncan after the feast.
13. Explain the symbolism of the floating dagger.
14. Explain the symbolism of the bell that Lady Macbeth rings.
15. Explain the symbolism of Macbeth not being able to wash the blood from his hands.
Macbeth Film Study Questions, Part One
Directions: Respond to each of the following questions in complete sentences on a separate sheet of paper. The higher quality answers will receive higher grades.
1. Who is the director of the film?
2. Who is the executive producer?
3. Describe the opening scene. In particular, look at the colors, the angles, the picture, and the sound. What mood is established?
4. How are the soliloquies enacted in the movie? Does this, in any way, change your understanding of their function?
5. Describe the change in tone which takes place once Macbeth discovers that he has been named the Thane of Cawdor by King Duncan. What happens to his body language?
6. How is Cawdor executed? Is this what you had imagined while reading, or is it different? What do you learn about Cawdor’s character from the way he dies?
7. What is discovered about Macbeth’s personality through his soliloquies?
8. Describe the overall tone of the film thus far.
9. Explain the symbolism of the raven.
10. Explain the symbolism of the thunder and lightening upon Duncan’s arrival to Inverness.
11. How would the story of Macbeth change if there were no soliloquies?
12. Describe the irony in Lady Macbeth’s dancing with Duncan after the feast.
13. Explain the symbolism of the floating dagger.
14. Explain the symbolism of the bell that Lady Macbeth rings.
15. Explain the symbolism of Macbeth not being able to wash the blood from his hands.