MACBETH SCHEDULE
ACT i: Together
ACT ii: Small groups
*Act I-II Quiz & Journal Entry
ACT iii: Listen to recording
ACT iv: Comic book (*& partially summarized)
ACT v: Performed
*Act III-V Journal Entry
Shakespeare &
The Renaissance
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DIRECTIONS: Follow along with the outline in your
packet. Anything written in YELLOW should be written
down.
The Life of Bill
~ April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616 ~
The Life of Bill: Family

PARENTS:
 Understood all walks of life and social
classes - Father was a glover and a leather
merchant, mother was a land heiress, which
put them in the working class, but with
benefits and respect.

FAMILY:
○ Married Anne Hathaway in 1582. (He was
18 while she was 26 and pregnant)
○ 3 kids: Susanna & twins – Hamnet and
Judith
The Life of Bill: Career
 ACTING
CAREER:
1594 – actor, writer, and a
managing partner for the
Lord Chamberlain’s Men’s
Company
NOTE: LCM Company –
acting company patronized
by royalty and popular by
the public
The Life of Bill: Works
Wrote 154 sonnets, 2 epic narratives, and
38 plays including:
Comedies: 12th Night,
Measure for Measure,
Taming of the Shrew
Histories: Henry’s and
Richard’s
Tragedies: Hamlet, King
Lear, Othello
Late Romances: Tempest
The Life of Bill: Language

Known for prose, witty poetry, and blank
verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter).
No dictionaries or grammar
books = learned from other
educated writers
Credited with introducing 3,000+
words/phrases into the language:
EXAMPLES: Bedroom, dawn, gossip, gloomy, fashionable, bump,
cold-blooded, Break the ice, breathed his last, dog will have his
day, good-riddance, sent packing, seen better days, heart of gold
The Life of Bill: Language

Only one generation from what we speak
today
OTHER HINT:

Reading Hints:
 Thee/Thou = you
 Thy/Thine = your
Don’t pronounce the
apostrophe at the end
of words; apostrophes
are for other vowels
 Art = Are
 T’is = it is
 Alas = unfortunately
Ex. cat I’ th’ adage
=
cat in the adage
The Life of Bill: Language
The only thing that is different from modern time
is the WORD ORDER in which the characters
speak. For example:
○ YODA: “Size matters not.
Look at me. Judge me by size,
do you?”
○ TRANSLATION: “Size doesn’t
matter. Do you judge me by
size?
DON’T STRESS…WE will work on this specifically before
we start reading!
The Life of Bill: Language

Elizabethan Drama – turn away from
religious subjects and began more
sophisticated plays drawing from the ancient
Romans and Greek
• Many Tragedies – hero
hit with disaster
• Carefully crafted,
unrhymed, rich
language, vivid imagery
Time Period:
The Renaissance
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Time Period: Renaissance

QUEEN ELIZABETH (1558-1603)
England emerges as naval and
commercial power of Western
world after defeating the Spanish
armada
England firmly established the
Church of England, which attacks
Catholics and witches.
QUICK FACT: The C.O.E. begun with her father, Henry VIII,
after a disagreement with the pope about getting divorced!
Time Period: Renaissance
 QUEEN
ELIZABETH (1558-1603)
 There were Catholic plots to
kill Queen Elizabeth since she
was from her father’s second
marriage. Catholics wished to
crown Mary Scot, her cousin
instead.
Scotland
(1st marriage)
England
(2nd marriage)
 Mary Scot was eventually
imprisoned for 19 years and
then beheaded.
Time Period: Renaissance
Since Queen Elizabeth had no heirs, so…
JAMES VI OF SCOTLAND
is crowned as
JAMES I OF ENGLAND
(Mary Scot’s son!!)
Talk about irony!
Time Period: Renaissance
JAMES I OF ENGLAND
1605 – Gun Powder
Plot: Catholics plot to
blow up the king and
Parliament
RIDICULOUS HISTORICAL SPECIFICS:
Guy Fawkes rented a cellar under the House of
Lords, where he stored 36 barrels of gun-powder.
This unsuccessful act increased Catholic persecution.
Until this day in England, Nov. 5th is known as
Guy Fawkes Day. The English burn dummies of
Guy and set off fireworks to celebrate.
Time Period: Renaissance
JAMES I OF ENGLAND
○ 1607 – Jamestown settled
○ 1611 – King James Bible
published
○ Witch Trials continue
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The Globe Theater:
The Globe Theater: History
○ 1576 – Known as “The Theater”
- 1594 – closed briefly for the
plague… ugh.
○ 1599 – Tore down and drug
across the Thames river after a
legal dispute.
○ 1613 – Burnt down from a fire
started by a canon shot during
a Henry VIII performance.
The Globe Theater: History
○ 1642 – Officially closed by Puritan regime
○ *Overall: Run predominately by Shakespeare’s
group the Lord Chamberlain’s Men Company
The Globe Theater: Construction

Open octagon, 3 stories high,
100 ft. in diameter

Fits 3,000 spectators

Microcosm of London
○ Pit– (1 pence)
Groundlings/Peasants; standing
room only, fruit and nuts sold
○ 3 tiers – (2 pence) upper class
seating
○ Behind stage – royalty (so
everyone could see them )
The Globe Theater: Construction
○ No real scenery:
- audience goes off of
exaggerated language
and movement
○ SPECIAL EFFECTS:
- Trap doors, balcony
entrances, rope
riggings, etc.
- Fireworks (lightning),
rolled canon balls
(thunder)
The Globe Theater: Plays
 Plays performed
during the day for
lighting (2-5pm)
 Actors were ONLY
men. Young boys
played the roles of
women.
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Shakespeare’s
Macbeth
Macbeth:
Writing Patronage
THE PLAY WAS WRITTEN FOR KING JAMES I:
(1) He was obsessed with demonology,
the idea of magic and witches.
(2) He experienced the Gun Powder Plot,
an assassination attempt.
(3) Banquo was written as a “good guy”
since King James was his descendant.
(4) The play was short because he liked
short plays
NOTE: The real Macbeth, King Duncan, Malcolm, Banquo and
Lady Macbeth all lived in the 1000s Beowulf’s times!
Macbeth:
The Curse
Supposedly, saying "Macbeth" inside a theater
will bring bad luck to the play and anyone
acting in it. People actually refer to the play as
“The Scottish Play” or “MacB” when at the theater
WHY IT STARTED:
Macbeth:
The Curse
Used an authentic 17th century black-magic ritual
for the opening scene of Macbeth's Act IV (a sort of “howto” for budding witches.) That means he provided his
audience with step-by-step instructions of how to create a
real spell! As punishment, the witches supposedly cursed
the play and its actors.
Macbeth:
REVERSE The Curse
1) Exit the theater,
2) Spin around three times
saying a profanity
3) And then ask for
permission to return inside
*OR
4) Some believe that you can
repeat the words "Thrice
around the circle bound,
Evil sink into the ground,"
THE CURSE
 First Macbeth Performance Ever: Beginning with its first performance, in
1606, Dear Will himself was forced to play
Lady Macbeth when Hal Berridge, the boy designated to play the lady,
became inexplicably feverish and died. Moreover, the bloody play so
displeased King James I that he banned it for five years.
 Amsterdam, 1672: The actor playing Macbeth substituted a real dagger
for the blunted stage one and with it killed Duncan in full view of the
entranced audience.
 Lady Macbeth incidents: Sarah Siddons was nearly ravaged by a
disapproving audience in 1775; Sybil Thorndike was almost strangled by a
burly actor in 1926; Diana Wynyard sleepwalked off the rostrum in 1948,
falling down 15 feet.
 New York, 1849: During its performance at New York's Astor Place, a riot
broke out in which 31 people were trampled to death. The actor playing
Macduff was mugged soon after the play's opening.
THE CURSE
 USA, 1937: When Laurence Olivier took on the role of Macbeth,
a 25 pound stage weight crashed within an inch of him, and his
sword which broke onstage flew into the audience and hit a man
who later suffered a heart attack.
 1934: British actor Malcolm Keen turned mute onstage, and his
replacement, Alister Sim, like Hal Berridge before him,
developed a high fever and had to be hospitalized.
 1942: The Macbeth production headed by John Gielgud, three actors -- Duncan
and two witches -- died, and the costume and set designer committed suicide
amidst his devilish Macbeth creations.
 Bermuda, 1952: Charlton Heston, in an outdoor production, suffered severe
burns in his groin and leg area from tights that were accidentally soaked in
kerosene.
 Recent Years: An actor's strike felled Rip Torn's 1970 production in New York
City. Two fires and seven robberies plagued the 1971 version starring David
Leary.
RENAISSANCE RECAP
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Shakespeare
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Globe Theater

Queen Elizabeth

King James I

The Macbeth Curse
ACT I: TERMS
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Elizabethan Drama – *already in your
background notes

Tragedy – a serious play in which the chief characters,
through peculiarity, pass through a series of misfortunes,
eventually leading to their downfall

Aside – a convention in drama whereby a character
onstage addresses the audience to reveal some inner
thought or feeling, inaudible to other characters onstage
– MACBETH: The greatest is behind us. Thanks for
your pains [Aside to Banquo] Do you not hope your
children will be kings…?
ACT I: i-iii TERMS

Soliloquy – monologue delivered by a character while
alone onstage revealing inner thoughts, emotions, or some
other information the audience needs to know… (think solo!)

Euphemism– a mild, indirect, or vague expression used in
place of one thought to be offensive, harsh or blunt.

Paradox – a statement which reveals a kind of truth
which at first seems contradictory
 “Foul is fair and fair is foul”

Hamartia – a character’s tragic flaw, which leads to
his/her downfall
(1) This supernatural soliciting cannot be
ill, cannot be good. If ill, why hath it
given me earnest success commencing in
a truth? If good, why do I yield to that
suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix
my hair and make my seated heart knock
at my ribs against the use of nature?
(Act I, scene iii)
DECODING LANGUAGE
(2) O gentle lady, ‘tis not for
you to hear what I can speak.
The repetition in a woman’s
ear would murder as it fell.
(Act II, scene iii)
DECODING LANGUAGE
(3) Here we had now our
country’s honor roofed, were the
graced person of our Banquo
present. Who may I rather
challenge of unkindness than pity
for mischance.
(Act III, scene iv)
DECODING LANGUAGE
(4) Time, thou anticipat’st my dread
exploits. The flighty purpose never is
o’ertook unless the deed go with it.
From this moment the very firstlings
of my heart shall be the firstlings of
my hand. And even now, to crown my
thoughts with acts, be it thought and
done. (Act 4, scene i)
DECODING LANGUAGE
(5) Cure her of that. Canst thou
not minister to a mind diseased,
pluck from the memory a rooted
sorrow, raze out the written
troubles of the brain, and with
some sweet oblivious antidote
cleanse the stuffed bosom of that
perilous stuff which weighs upon
the heart? (Act 5, scene iii)
DECODING LANGUAGE
1. “We spend more time gazing at luminous screens
than into the eyes of our loved ones.”
2. “Respect your parents: they passed grade school
without using Google.”
3. “I don’t have bad handwriting, I just have my own
font.”
4. “Dear math… grow up and solve your own
problems because I’m sick of solving them for you.”
5. “Don’t break anybody’s heart because they only
have one. Instead, break their bones because they
have 206.”
HINTS:
1) Word Order
ROLE REVERSAL
2) Use words from
the time (thou,
art, thine, etc.)
THINGS TO CONSIDER
Do
you believe in
prophecies or
predicting the future?
If
yes…
–would someone’s prediction
about you make you
change what you’re doing
now or how you currently live
your life?
Macbeth: Setting
*Scotland
Inverness (Macbeth’s Castle near
Dunsinane and Birnahm Woods)
Fife (MacDuff’s Castle)
Cawdor & Glamis (territories in Scotland)
England
Ireland
Norway
Macbeth: Setting
Macbeth!
Macbeth: WHO’S WHO?
SCOTLAND
KING DUNCAN
MACBETH
LADY MACBETH
(Commander &
Thane of Glamis)
Malcolm &
Donalbain
(Malcolm is
the eldest)
*Thane = baron, lord
BANQUO
(Commander under
Macbeth; Macbeth’s BFF)
Fleance
AT WAR WITH
NORWAY:
- Macdonwald
- King Sweno
ACT I: i-iii CHARACTERS
11 CHARACTERS READ IN ACT I: I-iii
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Weird Sisters (1st, 2nd,and 3rd witch)
 supernatural entities
 wyrd (Old English) = weird (Scottish) = FATE
Duncan – King of Scotland
Malcolm – Duncan’s oldest son
Macbeth – Thane of Glamis
 Thane - feudal lord
Banquo – commander with Macbeth
Captain – Captain of Scotland’s army
Angus, Lennox, & Ross – Scottish nobles
ACT I: i-ii TERMS
Scene i
 Graymalkin: witch’s “spirit” cat
 Paddock: witch’s “spirit” toad
Scene 2
 Broil: Battle
 Kerns ^ gallowglasses: armed soldiers
 Unseamed: ripped open
 Norweyan Lord: King of Norway
 Thane: lord of baron of an area in Scotland
 Craves composition: asks for terms
 Deceives/ our bosom interest: betrays us
ACT I: iii TERMS
Scene iii
 forbid: under a curse
 wracked: wrecked or tormented
 Fantastical: figment of your imagination
 Nobel having: possession of a noble title
 Sinel: Macbeth’s father
 Insane root: plant that causes hallucinations
 combined: in conspiracy with
 Ill: evil
 Unfix my hair: scare (hair stands up)
 Against nature: unnatural
ACT I: IV TERMS
Scene iv:
 f: fff
 f: execute
 f: figme
ACT I: IV-VII CHARACTERS
5 CHARACTERS READ IN ACT I: Iv-vii

Lady Macbeth – Macbeth’s wife

Macbeth – Thane of Glamis (& Cawdor now!)

Thane - feudal lord

Duncan – King of Scotland

Messenger –

Banquo – commander with Macbeth
ACT I: V TERMS
Scene v:

chastise: reprimand, punish with words

metaphysical supernatural

compunctious: remorseful

gall: bile-like humor that contains evil/hatred

Pall thee: cover yourself (referencing to cover with the
blanket that goes on a coffin)

beguile: the time: deceive others in time
ACT I: VI & VII TERMS
Scene vi:
 PURVEYOR: one who advances preparations for a
master
Scene v:ii
 Surcease: Duncan’s death
 cherbuin: refers to winged angels
 The cat in the adage: old story about a cat who would eat
fish, but didn’t want to get his feet wet
 wassail: carousing/partying
 quell: murder
ACT I TERMINOLOGY

ASIDE

SOLILOQUY

CONFLICTS: Internal vs. External

PARADOX:
 “Fair is foul and foul is fair”
 “Cannot be ill, cannot be good”
 Others?

THEME: Appearances can be deceiving
 Quotes to prove it… Duncan, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth?
ACT I QUESTIONS?

Characters
 Traitor?
 Prince of Cumberland ?

Setting?

Predictions?
 Macbeth & Banquo
 Reactions to?

The Plan:
THINGS TO CONSIDER
SEE YOUR NUMBER:
1. You or your girlfriend will be pregnant by the end of the
summer.
2. In the next three years, you will have bankrupt your
parents, causing them to lose your childhood home, in
order to help support your drug addiction.
3. You will be involved in a fatal car crash.
4. You will be the inventor of the newest social networking
site, and become an instant billionaire.
5. You will not graduate from high school.
SAT REVIEW!
WRITING:
WHAT IS IT? SAT essay test how quickly and how well
you can formulate thoughts. Typically, you are given 25
minutes to write this. It is graded on a scale of 0-6 by two
scorers, giving you a total of 12 points.
Grading: You are graded on:
(A) position statement (thesis),
(B) support for the position statement (exs),
(C) organization, and
(D) command of language (grammar, word choice).
You will receive a zero if you: use a pen, do not write
in the test book, are off topic, or you plagiarized.
SAT REVIEW!
WRITING:
STRATEGIES: By the end of your first ten lines, the
reader already has an idea of how they are going to grade
you so make sure you have good ideas and impress them
early on!!
TIPS TO START OFF STRONG :
take a few minutes to plan
write as much as you can, while remaining on topic;
NEVER use “qualifiers” like “I feel,” “I think,” and other
blah phrases;
*use a semi-colon correctly and try to include ten SAT
vocab words to start off!
SAT REVIEW!
GRAMMAR STATISTICAL HINTS:
If you can eliminate one or more answer options, then
GUESS! If you can’t eliminate any of the five, leave it blank.
The word “plus” is ALWAYS wrong on the SAT.
If underlined as a possible error, the words “being,” “he or
she,” “him or her,” “his or her,” “you,” “yours,” “it,”
“them,” “their,” or “myself” are INCORRECT 90% of the
time!
If a comma is underlined, it is incorrect 90% of the time.
SAT REVIEW!
VOCABULARY: Use Context clues, process of elimination,
relate other similar/close words (word parts)guess hardest word!
 While the public often ---------- the plethora of negative ads that
appear every election year, research shows that such questionable
tactics have a strong ability to sway voters’ opinions and to win
votes for the more --------- candidate.
a. Deplores …. Submissive
b. Amuses…. Vacillating
c. Lauds… aggressive
d. Decries .... belligerent
e. Appreciates…. Youthful
SAT REVIEW!
GRAMMAR:
 Pronoun Agreement (number/gender),
 Subject/verb agreement (I vs. Me)
 Prep phrases can’t be subjects!
 Object case AFTER prepositions or verb
FACT: Fifty-percent
(50%) of error ID
questions contain
pronoun, verb, or
preposition errors, so
make sure you study
know those rules!
 Consistent Tense
 Misplaced modifiers
 subject comes immediately after if not in the introductory
phrase
 Adjective/Adverb Mix-ups
 DIFICULT MISKTAKES: Parallel Structure, Idiom phrases
 MINOR MISTAKES: misused words, double negatives,
SAT REVIEW!
Linda, Charles, and Steve were skiing when, slipping
on an ice patch, he collapsed in the snow.
 a. When, slipping on an ice patch, he collapsed in the
snow.
 b. And then he collapsed in the snow after he slipped
on an ice patch.
 c. When Steve collapsed in the snow after slipping on
an ice patch.
 d. When Steve collapsed in the snow, since he slipped
on an ice patch.
 e. And, since Steve has slipped on an ice patch, he
collapsed in the snow.
SAT REVIEW!
 Scientific advances over the last fifty years
(a) have led to revolutionary changes in
health, agriculture and communication, (b)
and generally (C) enhancing socio-economic
development and the quality of our (d)
lives. (E) No error.
“FLIGHTSEND” REVIEW
1. B - purpose “why the family is moving”
*Hardly mentions current house at all
2. A - imagery communicates deterioration
*”weedy gravel, curls of paint peeling off,
bare, gloomy room… full of cobwebs.”
3. B - dilapidated = disrepair
4. D - “-tion” of rennovation means “act of
restoring”
“FLIGHTSEND” REVIEW
5. A - best completes the summary
- looking for house
- Daughter is disappointed with new house’s
condition
- Kathy is excited about the new possibilities
- ? (Charlie stops trying to discuss the negatives)
* transportation and cost of driving lessons
were minor and rural area is part of 2
“FLIGHTSEND” REVIEW
6. C - matches generalization that “positive
attitudes influence” our perceptions
- “Charlie guessed that she saw climbing roses and
honeysuckle, not dereliction or decay”
7. D - Charlie is observant
8. B - conflict is Mom wants to move, Charlie
doesn’t
“FLIGHTSEND” REVIEW
OPEN-ENDED (A.P.E.):
Significance = importance to story
“What does it mean, Flightsend?”
“Idk. Flight’s end. An end to everything that’s gone wrong.”
Charlie thought, I don’t want ends. I
want beginnings.
ACT I: i-iii
Review

Summary – What happened? Who’s who? Where
are we? Prophecies?

Paradox – “So foul and fair a day I have not seen”
- Macbeth
– Foul is fair and fair is foul, hover
through the fog and filthy air” - witches
ACT I: iv-vi
CHARACTERS
6 CHARACTERS READ TODAY
 Duncan – King of Scotland

Malcolm – Duncan’s oldest son

Macbeth – Thane of Glamis
 Thane
- feudal lord

Banquo – commander with Macbeth

Messenger – delivers messages

Lady Macbeth – Macbeth’s wife!
ACT I - What’s
what?

Macbeth and Banquo are given
prophecies about their lives.
– Macbeth: “These supernatural solicitings
cannot be ill, cannot be good.”
– Banquo: “Often times, to win us to our
harm,the instruments of darkenss tell us
half truths… to betray us in deepest
consequences.”

Find a line relating to the
prophecies that shows Macbeth is
considering:
ACT I - What’s
what?

Duncan appreciates what Macbeth and
Banquo have done for the country.
– Duncan: “More is due than more than all I can pay”…
Macbeth: “The service and the loyalty I owe in doing it
pays for itself.”
– Duncan: “Noble Banquo, that hast no less deserved nor
must be known no less to have done so. Let me enfold
thee and hold thee to my heart.”

Duncan is discouraged about the traitor, the
previous Thane of Cawdor.
– “There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.
He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust.”
ACT I: iv-vii
CHARACTERS
5 CHARACTERS READ TODAY:
 Lady Macbeth – Macbeth’s wife!

Macbeth – Thane of Glamis & Cawdor

Duncan – King of Scotland

Banquo – commander with Macbeth

Messenger – delivers messages
ACT I - What’s
what?

MACBETH:
– After the predictions, Macbeth is
distraught at the idea of killing a king.
He claims, “If chance will have me
king, why, chance may crown me
without my stir” (1.4.160).
HOWEVER…
 Find
a quote from scene 4, pg. 29
that tells you he’s already
considering taking fate into his own
hands.
ACT I - What’s
what?

LADY MACBETH:
– What type of person is Lady Macbeth?
Have proof to support your answer.
– Find quotes of what examples of how she
feels about her husband and these
predictions in scene 5, pgs. 31-35.
– In what ways does she contribute to the
theme “appearances can be decieving”
ACT I - What’s
what?

LITERARY TERMS:
– A statement that is truthful, but contradicts
itself.
– “Fair is foul, foul is fair…”
– Other examples?
–
–
–
–
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Hamaratia
Hubris
Internal Conflict
External Conflict
Soliloquy
ACT I Soliloq
uies
The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of
Duncan under my battlements. Come, you spirits that tend
on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the
crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty! Make thick my
blood; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no
compunctiuous visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose nor
keep peace between the effect and it. Come to my woman's
breasts, and take my milke for gall, you murdering
ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances you wait
on nature’s mischeif! Come, thick night, And palll thee in
the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the
wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the
dark, to cry 'Hold, hold!'
ACT II GROUP
WORK
GROUP WORK: You will have Tuesday and
Wednesday in class to read and answer the
questions on Macbeth’s Act II in your group.
– In your group assign
reading roles and read
each scene.
– As a group answer the
given questions for
EACH SCENE!
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ACT II , Scene i- REVIEW
Fleance (pgs. 49)
Who is Fleance? Significance?
Banquo can’t sleep “Merciful powers,
restrain in me the cursed thoughts
that nature gives way to in repose.”
Macbeth’s “feelings” about the witches?
Hallucinations: “A dagger of the mind”
Hecate
ACT II , Scene ii- REVIEW
The “Bell” summoning Duncan to
heaven or hell (pg. 51-53)
The murder (pgs. 55-59)
 Macbeth’s Role (slip-up & Fear)
Lady’s Role (her excuse)
Lady: “My hands are of your color, but
I shame to wear a heart so white.”
ACT II , Scene iii- REVIEW
The Porter (doorman) (pgs. 61-63)
 What does he compare himself to?
Comments about the party
 *Comic Relief – why now?
Macduff & Lennox’s Visit
The Weather (pg. 65)
 “The night has been unruly”
ACT II , Scene iii- REVIEW
Reactions to Duncan’s Death
 Macduff “Oh horror!”
*Treatment of Lady (pg. 67)
Macbeth (pg. 69)
 His “show” of emotion
“I do repent me of my fury, that I did
kill them!... Who could refrain that had
a heart to love and in that heart
courage to make’s love known?”
ACT II , Scene iii- REVIEW
Reactions to Duncan’s Death (pgs. 71-3)
 Malcolm & Donalbain
 “Why do we hold our tongues, that most
may claim this argument for ours? Let’s away,
our tears are not yet brewed… to show an
unfelt sorry is an office which the false man
does easy!”
“There’s daggers in men’s smiles. The
near in blood. The nearer bloody.”
ACT II , Scene iv - REVIEW
OMENS (pg. 73)
 Mousing Owl & Duncan’s Horses
New King
Macduff’s refusal?
“Adieu, llest our old robes sit easier
than our new”
“make good of bad and friends of foes.”
Prime Suspects?
ACT I -II JOURNAL (18pts.)
JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT (pg. 14 )
Option A: First Person Diary from a
character’s perspective (roughly 1 pg)
Option B: Song lyrics
BOTH REQUIRE THAT YOU:
Summarize major events from Act I & II
Incorporate 2 quotes (scene, line #)
DUE: Tuesday, 4/1
ACT II TERMS

Hamaratia: tragic flaw that leads to a characters
downfall

Hubris: having excessive pride
– Example of a tragic flaw

Divine Right of Rule: God appoints/chooses a
person to reign as king

Internal Conflict: Inside/Personal forces
– Macbeth: ? ? ?
– Lady Macbeth: ? ? ?

External Conflict: External or outside forces
– Macbeth: ? ? ?
ACT II TERMS

Anadiplosis (Greek for “doubling”): Repeating
the last word of a clause at the beginning of the
next clause
– Ex. Yoda - "Fear leads to anger; anger leads
to hatred; hatred leads to conflict; conflict
leads to suffering."
ACT II-III TERMINOLOGY

Divine Right of Rule: God
appoints/ chooses a person to reign
as king

Internal Conflict: Inside/Personal
forces
– Macbeth: ? ? ?
– Lady Macbeth: ? ? ?

External Conflict:
– Macbeth: ? ? ?

Comic Relief: humorous scene or
passage inserted into an otherwise
serious work
outside forces
ACT I-III REVIEW

How has Macbeth changed from the
beginning? What is Macbeth’s
hamaratia?

One of the major themes of Macbeth
is that “appearances can be
deceiving.” What are some
examples of where that is true from
the play?

The idea of being “manly” comes
up over and over again in the play.
ACT III Quote Analysis
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EXPLANATION: Write down an
explanation of who/what/where/when

IMPORTANCE/SIGNIFICANCE: Write
down why it’s significant to the story. Think
character changes, thematic ideas, etc.
EXAMPLE:
–Lady Mac: Look like
the innocent flower, but
be the serpent under ‘t.”
ACT III Quote Analysis
1)
Banquo: “Thou hast it now… and I
fear thou played foully for it!
2)
Macbeth: “We hear our bloody
cousins are bestowed in England &
Ireland not confessing their parricide,
filling hearers with strange invention”
ACT III Quote Analysis

EXPLANATION: Write down an
explanation of who/what/where/when

IMPORTANCE/SIGNIFICANCE: Write
down why it’s significant to the story. Think
character changes, thematic ideas, etc.
EXAMPLE:
–Lady Mac: Look like
the innocent flower, but
be the serpent under ‘t.”
ACT III Quote Analysis Review
1)
BANQUO: “Thou hast it now…and I fear thou played foully for it!

2)
MACBETH: “We hear our bloody cousins are bestowed in England
& Ireland not confessing their parricide, filling hearers with strange
invention”
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3)
SIGNIFICANCE: First suspicion of Macbeth; Fate vs.
Free-Will
SIGNIFICANCE: Still attempting to have his
appearances be deceiving
MACBETH: “Do you find your patience so predominant in your
nature that you can let this go? (then it’s the comparison to dogs)
1)
SIGNIFICANCE: Attacking of manhood/masculinity to
encourage others to be violent
ACT III Quote Analysis
4) LADY MAC: “Naught’s had all’s spent where our
desire is got without content!… What’s done is done.
MACBETH : “Of full of scorpions is my mind! Be
innocent of the knowledge…”
5) BANQUO: “Fly… Thou mayst’ revenge!...”
MACBETH: “There the grown serpent lies. The
worm that’s fled… will venom breed.”
ACT III Quote Analysis
6) MACBETH: “Take any shape but that and my
nerves shall never tremble… thou being
gone, I am man again.”
7) MACBETH: “It will have blood they say; blood
will have blood… I am stepped in so far
that… we are but young in deed.”
ACT III Quote Analysis
7) MACBETH: “It will have blood they say;
blood will have blood… I am stepped in so
far that… we are but young in deed.”
8) HECATE: “[We] shall raise artificial
sprights… [and with] the strength of their
illusions shall draw him on to his
confusion. He shall spurn fate, scorn
death… security is man’s chiefest enemy.”
ACT iiI REVIEW
Macbeth
1. Where is everyone?
• Malcolm
• Donalbain
• MacDuff
• Fleance
2. State of Scotland?
3. Major players in
England?
REMINDER: WHO WAS THIS PLAY WRITTEN FOR?
ACT IV -Behind the Scenes

Hecate initially said that they will…
– “draw him on to his confusion. He shall
spurn fate, scorn death, and bear his
hopes above ‘bove wisdom grace and
fear. And you all know, security is
mortal’s chiefest enemy.”

New set of predictions?
– Three apparitions and
their meanings?
– Bonus one!
ACT IV -Behind the Scenes
OVER IN ENGLAND
– MacDuff comes to England in hopes of
getting Malcolm to return to Scotland and
take over/fight Macbeth.
– Malcolm’s Concern:
 “This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our
tongues, was once honest. You have
loved him well. He hath not touched you
yet… You may, through me, have
wisdom to offer up a weak, poor,
innocent lamb to appease an angry
god.”
ACT IV -Behind the Scenes

MALCOM: TEST OF LOYALTY
– Macduff wants Malcolm to take back his throne, but
Malcolm says he’ll…
 Take all the women and daughters for my lust
 Take the lords’ lands and wealth
 Confound all unity on earth!
– MACDUFF’S REACTION: “O Scotland! You’re not fit
to live let alone be king. All hope for us ends here.”
– HOWEVER, Malcolm then takes it all back!!!

WAR APPROACHES
– Old Siward and King Edward (Eng.) have 10,000 men
ACT IV -Behind the Scenes
MACDUFF’S FAMILY IS MURDERED
– Ross delivers the news

“Your castle is surprised, your wife and
babes savagely slaughtered. To relate the
manner were on the quarry of these
murdered deed to add the death of you.
– Reactions
Malcolm: “Let’s make medicines of our
great revenge to cure this deadly grief…
dispute it like a man.”
 Macduff: “I shall do so, but I must also feel
it as a man. I cannot but remember such
things were that were most precious to
me.”
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BIG IDEA REVIEW

One of the major themes of Macbeth is that
“appearances can be deceiving.” Explain at least
two examples where that has come up in the play.

The idea of being “manly” also comes up over
and over again in the play. Explain at least two
examples where that has come up in the play.

How have Macbeth and Lady Macbeth “reversed
roles” at this point? Explain by using details from
the beginning and current point in the play.

Fate vs Free-Will? Internal/External Conflicts
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HEART LINE
- Uppermost main line
from edge of palm a
little below little finger
towards the index finger
-Shows: emotional
stability,romantic life,
depression, cardiac
health
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HEAD LINE
- Edge of palm between
thumb and index finger
running straight to the other
side of the palm
-Shows: knowledge,
learning style,
communication
-Shows: creativity,
spontaneity
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LIFE LINE
- Space between thumb and
index finger running down
towards wrist
-Shows: physical health, life
changes (length NOT
associated with life span)
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FATE LINE
- center of bottom of the
palm towards middle or ring
finger
-Shows: life affected by
external circumstances
beyond your control
OTHER MINOR LINES
Health, Fame, Marriage, Money, and Travel
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DANTE’S
LEVELS
OF
HELL
(pg. 9)
DANTE’S HELL
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• Our levels of hell would
be looked at differently
today because of how
our priorities have
changed.
• However, it is important
to understand how
people of the time
ranked “evils.” Put in
modern day people
where they would fit for
each level of hell.
DANTE’S HELL
•1st Ring: In Limbo
– Un-baptized –
•2nd Ring: Lustful –
•3rd Ring: Gluttonous –
•4th Ring: Hoarders & Wasters
•5th Ring: Wrathful –
•6th Ring: Heretics –
•7th Ring: Violent
– Violent against People/Property –
– Violent against themselves –
DANTE’S HELL
•8th Ring: Fraudulent or Deliberately Evil
– Pardoners and Seducers –
– Flatterers –
– Simony (accepting money for sins) –
– Sorcerers and False Prophets –
– Corrupt Politicians –
– Hypocrites –
– Thieves –
– Fraudulent Advisors –
– Sowers of Discord –
– Falsifiers –
DANTE’S HELL
•9th Ring: Traitors
– To kin (family) –
– To politics (party/king/country) –
– To guests –
– To lords or benefactors –
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MACBETH: ACT IV,
SCENE iii
1.
Malcolm says, “I am young, but something you may deserve of him through me, and
wisdom to offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb to appease an angry god” (IV.iii.1620). Explain what Malcolm is worried about?
2.
How does Malcolm describe his predicted reign as king on page 143 and 145?
Write down at least two lines. Why does he describe himself to Macduff like this?
3.
Macduff seems to make excuses for Malcolm to being with, but then change his
mind. How does Macduff react to these descriptions in the end (IV.iii.?
4.
Why does Malcolm say he retracts all of those earlier descriptions? (IV.iii. 133150)
5
Who is Siward and what is he doing as we speak?
6
What gift does the King of England possess (IV.iii. 170-181)? Explain it.
7
After talking in circles for some time, Ross says, “Let not your ears despise my
tongue forever” (IV.iii.231-2). What devastating news does Ross bring Macduff?
8
Of the devastating news that Macduff receives, Malcolm tells him to “Dispute it
like a man” (IV.iii.259). What does Macduff mean when he replies, “I shall do so,
but I must also feel it as a man?” (IV.iii. 260-1)
MACBETH: ACT IV
• Apparitions & Predictions
• Malcolm says, “This tyrant whose sole name blisters our tongues
was once thought honest. You have loved him well. He hath not
touched you yet. I am young, but something you may deserve of him
through me, and wisdom to offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb to
appease an angry god” (IV.iii.16-20). Explain what Malcolm is
worried about?
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Malcolm’s Predicted Reign
The Test
Siward
King Edwards’s Gift
Macduff’s “Pretty Chickens”
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MACBETH: Manliness
• MACDUFF: Of the devastating news that Macduff
receives, Malcolm tells him to “Dispute it like a man”
(IV.iii.259). What does Macduff mean when he
replies, “I shall do so, but I must also feel it as a
man?” (IV.iii. 260-1)
• What does it mean to be a “man”
today?
• With a partner, write down
lines/points in the play where
“manliness” was brought up.
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ACT V QUICK REVIEW
 MACBETH CLAIMS THAT THE WITCHES “have cowed my
better part of man!… In a double sense, that keeps the
word of promise to our ear and breaks it to our hope!”
Explain how they tricked him.
 What becomes of Macbeth? How?
 What happens to Lady Macbeth? How?
 Who ends up ruling Scotland?
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GRADES &
GRAD PROJECTS
POSSIBLE EXEMPTIONS:
- Grade needed in the fourth marking
period to be exempt from the final. A
“year-end” grade is given as well.
FAILURE WARNINGS:
- Minimum grades needed on the fourth
marking period and the final to PASS!
ACT iV REVIEW
Macbeth
1. Where is everyone?
• Malcolm
• Donalbain
• MacDuff
• Fleance
2. State of Scotland?
3. Major players in
England?
REMINDER: WHO WAS THIS PLAY WRITTEN FOR?
ACT V
The final “act”
ACT V
The final “act”
MACBETH
TERMS

ELIZABETHAN DRAMA: Plays that turn away
from religious subjects and begins to model ancient
_______ & ________ plays with sophisticated plots

SHAKESPEAREAN ___________: Serious play
in which the chief figures, through peculiarity of
character, pass through a serious of misfortunes,
eventually leading to a catastrophe and downfall
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Act I (happiness)
Act II (conflict begins)
Shakespearean Climax,
Act III (conflict could’ve been avoided but isn’t),
Act IV (downfall/catastrophe),
Act V (consequences/aftermath)
MACBETH REVIEW
CHARACTER LIST
• SCOTLAND
•ENGLAND
 King Duncan
King Edward
• Malcolm &
Siward
Donalbain
Young Siward
 Macbeth
 Banquo
Go to England
 *Malcolm
for help
 *Macduff
 Nobles:
SUPERNATURAL
• Lennox, Ross,
3 Weird sisters & Hecate
Angus, Menteith
MACBETH REVIEW
TERMS & BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE
TERMS
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Elizabethan Drama
Shakespearean Tragedy
Paradox
Stage Direction
Aside
Soliloquy
Comic Relief
Internal/External Conflict
BACKGROUND
 Shakespeare’s Company
 Theater
 “Macbeth’s” Patron
MACBETH THEMES
• APPEARANCE vs. REALITY
– People look and pretend to be different than their
inner emotions/motives
• ___________: “Fair is foul and foul is fair.”
• ___________: “There’s no art to find the mind’s
construction in the
face. He was a man on
whom I built an absolute trust”
• ___________: “Sleek over your rugged looks. Look like
the
innocent flower but be the serpent
under ‘t”
• ___________: “Be innocent of the knowledge dearest
chuck. There is
MACBETH THEMES
• FATE vs. FREE WILL
• Fate: It was in the cards already. Macbeth was fated to kill
Duncan regardless of what the witches said. It was all part of
the plan/predestination.
• Free Will: Macbeth made the decision to kill Duncan and
take things into his own hands. He may not have gotten the
throne, but created that opportunity through his actions.
• AMBITION
– Macbeth’s Hamaratia - leads to his downfall
• MANHOOD/MASCULINITY
– Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, Macduff
MACBETH REVIEW
• THEMES:
 Appearances can be deceiving
• Witches Paradox: “Foul is fair and fair is foul”
 Fate vs. Free Will
 Ambition
• Macbeth’s Hamaratia (ambition) drives him to his downfall
• TERMS TO KNOW (not already mentioned):
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Elizabethan Drama
Shakespearean Tragedy
Comic Relief
Soliloquy
Internal/External Conflict
Background Information on Shakespeare & his time
MACBETH REVIEW
• MACBETH TEST ON MOODLE TOMORROW!
• BREAK DOWN (60 pts.)
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Character Matching - 14 pts.
Correcting False Statements - 12 pts.
Multiple Choice - 14 pts.
Quote Identification - 10 pts.
Essay - 10 pts
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*Retakes must be completed on your own time by
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SPELLING WORD BANK
This is to use for spelling of characters. This is NOT a complete list of
answers.
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BANQUO
DONALBAIN
DUNCAN
HECATE
LADY MACBETH
MACBETH
MACDUFF
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MALCOLM
PORTER
SIWARD
THANE OF GLAMIS
THANE OF CAWDOR
WITCHES
YOUNG SIWARD
SCENE PERFORMANCES
» You will be recreating a modernized scene or
version of Macbeth.
» It must be true to the story’s content, but can be
set anytime, anywhere.
» You must translate the dialogue to match your
new setting (dialect, slang, etc.)
» Everyone will perform your new version of
Macbeth with props/scenery.
SCENE PERFORMANCES
» Although you are changing the setting, you must stay
true to the structure/events
» Basic structure: “Lower status” wants to kill off
someone of a higher status to move up
because of predictions made.
» Consider how “Scotland, PA” accomplishes
this. SETTING:
Duncan’s – a roadside diner in Scotland, Pennsylvania
THE PLAYERS
Duncan – Owner of Duncan’s, who ends up head first in a fryer.
Mac - Assistant Manager at Duncan’s
Pat – Mac’s Wife, a cashier, who hopes for a better life than flipping burgers
McDuff – A vegetarian detective working on the murder
Banko – A frycook at Duncan’s, who begins to become suspicious of Mac
Stacey, Hector, & Jesse – Three bohemian hippies who take the place of the witches
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SCENE PERFORMANCES ~ DUE
THURSDAY ~
Original
Modernized
 Macbeth: Why should I give up. I’d
rather see them die!
[Macduff Enters]
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 Macduff: Turn around!
 Macbeth: Get out of here. I’ve
already taken too much of your
families blood.
 Macduff: I’m not here to talk. I’m
here to kill you!
[They fight]
 Macbeth: Careful loser. You can’t
beat me. I lead a charmed life! No
one born from a woman can kill me!
 Macduff: That’s funny. I was a Csection! So prepare to die!
SCENE PERFORMANCES
» TODAY:
 Brainstorm Setting & Character Roles
 Choose a scene
 Assign jobs
» TUESDAY:
 Re-Write the lines to fit your setting
 Rehearsal & Props
» WEDNEDSDAY:
 Finish lines, props, & rehearse
» THURSDAY: Performances
SCENE PERFORMANCES ~ DUE
THURSDAY ~
» Setting Summary:
 Type up a summary of
how your setting fits
the ENTIRE STORY of
Macbeth. Include all
characters and how
they fit, as well as
where/what the
setting is.
» Modernized Lines:
 Type out your
modernized lines by
character. Be detailed
and specific. Your lines
need to represent the
original conversation,
yet written in the style
of your new setting.
 *You must complete
the ENTIRE scene your
group selected.
SCENE PERFORMANCES
» DUE FRIDAY:
1) Summary/Explanation of Macbeth in
YOUR setting
2) Typed Modernized Lines
3) Student Names & Roles
» DUE MONDAY:
 Performance using Props