BELLWORK!
- Get out PINK SHEET labeled “The
Tragedy of Macbeth 1.7.1-28”
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(it has Macbeth’s soliloquy which begins “If it
were done”)
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With a partner, TRANSLATE this passage
into modern language! (Use the book—pg
337 to help you. USE YOUR BRAIN, NOT
SPARKNOTES!)
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• What am I learning today?
Thursday, September 25th
• Language – Learning Goal: Demonstrate the correct use of vocabulary and grammar in my writing.
(ELACC12L1-6)
• Reading – Learning Goal: The Tragedy of Macbeth: Analyze the behaviors and values of the
Elizabethan time period. Identify evidence of literary techniques and structures to interpret the
literature. Evaluate the community of Elizabethan England and compare/contrast with the AngloSaxon and Medieval communities. Analyze the historical connection to King James. Provide textual
evidence for Macbeth as a tragic hero. (ELACC12RL1; ELACC12RL2; ELACC12RL3; ELACC12RL4;
ELACC12RL5; ELACC12RL6)
• What am I going to do today?
• Bellwork: translating Macbeth
• Notes from Act I
• Continue reading/analyzing The Tragedy of Macbeth (Act 2)– assign parts (extra credit)
• What will I do to show I learned it?
• Vocabulary – Compose higher level sentences using vocabulary from units 4 and 5
connecting with novel for research
• Gather textual evidence for Macbeth as tragic hero, motifs and imagery as we
read (quadrants)
• Summative assessment: Partner test of textual analysis with an informational
text.
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Tragic Hero
-noble – better than we are
-suffers a reversal of fortune
-recognizes consequence of actions
-audience who sees these actions and
consequences is moved by pity and fear
Concept of Order
• Elizabethans believed in this concept of order....
“They believed that a great chain linked all beings,
from God on high to the lowest beasts and
plants”(322).
• They believed that “the sun ruled in the
heavens...the king ruled in the state and the father
in the family” (322).
• If ONE area is disturbed, then this would cause
disorder... “a tragic hero’s bad choices can disturb
the whole universe” (322).
Parallel Disorders
Watch for disorder in....
-the mind of Macbeth (tragic hero)
-the weather
-the kingdom
-paradox – a situation created that can’t
possibly exist because different elements
cancel each other out; seems
contradictory, but on closer examination,
it doesn’t.
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.” (1.1.10)
A theme of the play...values are
reversed....appearances are deceiving.
Analysis of Lines (Paradoxes)
To analyze means to look at the smaller part and show what it adds
to the whole. To analyze these lines in your small group:
-identify who said it/when
-explain what happened before and after
-look at their significance to the play as a whole
-bring in other quotes of support to connect the dots....
1. “When the battle’s lost and won” (1.1.4).
2. “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” (1.1.10).
3. “So foul and fair a day I have not seen” (1.3.38).
4. “Lesser than Macbeth and greater/Not so happy, yet
much happier” (1.3.65-66).
5. “…and nothing is / But what is not” (1.3.141-2).
1. “When the battle’s lost and won” (1.1.4).
Bad Weather - The second Witch says this to the other witches
when they are planning when to meet again. They will meet after
the battle is lost and won to meet with Macbeth. Why? So they
can mess with his mind. Remember the witches’ powers are
limited. They can’t physically TOUCH Macbeth.
The second witch says it. She is explaining that the three witches
will meet again after Cawdor is put to death and Macbeth is
thane. The Thane of Cawdor will lose a title, which Macbeth will
gain. Norway will lose the war that Scotland will win.
2. “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” (1.1.10).
All the witches say this after they say they are going to meet up with
Macbeth, but before we know why. This means that something may be
good for someone, yet bad for someone else. There’s a winning team
and a losing team. Macbeth says the same thing which links him to the
witches immediately.
All the witches say good is bad, and bad is good. It is good that
Macbeth shall be king, but it is bad that the king will be
assassinated for this. This foreshadows Macbeth’s torture over
the decision whether or not to kill the king. The weather is also
foul, but it is fair as Banquo and the king enter Inverness,
Macbeth’s castle. The hostess, Lady Macbeth, also appears to be
fair, but hides a foul idea to kill the king. In Act 3, both Banquo
and Macbeth put on a fair face but are really foul – Macbeth
invites Banquo to feast; Banquo suspicious of Macbeth but swears
loyalty to him.
3. “So foul and fair a day I have not seen” (1.3.38).
Macbeth says this to Banquo after the battle has been won
against Norway. These are the first words Macbeth speaks, again
linking him to the witches. It is foul because it is rainy and stormy
weather, but fair because Scotland won the battle.
3. Macbeth says that he has not seen such a good day so bad. He
has never met the witches, but we know he has some connection
to them through these words, which are his first words, but which
the witches have said previously. At the end of Act 3, we see
Macbeth’s total commitment to evil as he seeks out the witches
on his own.
4. “Lesser than Macbeth and greater/Not so happy, yet much
happier” (1.3.65-66).
This is said by the 2 nd Witch to Banquo during the meeting with Banquo
and Macbeth while they are on their journey to Forres. Macbeth will be
happy because he will soon become king, but Banquo will be happier in
the long run because his sons will become kings. Banquo will be lesser
than Macbeth because he will never become a king, yet greater because
his sons will become kings. Macbeth must commit murder to become
king, yet Banquo’s sons will not.
The first and second witch are saying that Banquo’s sons will be king,
and that Banquo will be lesser but greater. This is the witches’ prophesy
for Banquo. He will not be as happy because he will not be king, but he
will be happier because he will not fall into the temptation that Macbeth
will. He does not believe the witches and calls them “instruments of
darkness.” This prediction by the witches causes Macbeth to plot
Banquo’s and his son’s murders in Act 3.
5. “…and nothing is / But what is not” (1.3.141-2).
Macbeth says this as an “aside.” He has just found out that he is the Thane
of Cawdor, and he now believes the Witches’ 3 rd prophecy that he will
become king. He immediately starts thinking about murdering King Duncan,
but then thinks that maybe it will happen by fate without him having to take
action. Appearances from here on out are deceiving…the blurring of reality
and illusion.
Macbeth says that nothing is what it appears. This is the theme for Act I.
Macbeth will have to kill the king to become king. He is having internal
conflict already. He knows that he will have to resort to violence to get
what he wants. Nothing will arise without him stirring it, beginning it.
This is the difference between illusion and reality as seen in other times
in the play. The king believes that Macbeth cares for him, but the truth is
that Macbeth plans to kill him. Lady Macbeth encourages Macbeth to
put on a false face before and after the murder of King Duncan. Both
Banquo and Macbeth are suspicious of each other, but putting on an
act.
Partner Test Analysis Practice
• “Fair is foul, and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air.” (1.1.10-11)
• “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis! All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee,
Thane of Cawdor! All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter!” (1.2.48-50)
• “Lesser than Macbeth, and greater/Not so happy, yet much happier/Thou shalt
get kings, though thou be none.” (1.3.65-68)
• “This supernatural soliciting /Cannot be ill, cannot be good.” (1.3.130-131)
• “look like th’ innocent flower,/But be the serpent under ‘t.” (1.5.65-66)
• Temptation scene 1.7
• Blood
• Weather
• Clothing/Garment imagery