MACDUFF’S “PRETTY CHICKENS”
• Ross delivers the news of his family
• “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.
• Malcolm: “Let grief convert to anger! Blunt not the
heart; ENRAGE it… This tune goes manly.”
ACT IV- Graphic Novel
Where is everyone?
Macbeth
• Malcolm
• Donalbain
• MacDuff
• Fleance
Major players in England
• King Edward
(magical healing
powers)
• Warlike Siward & his
son Young Siward
*REMINDER: WHO WAS THIS PLAY WRITTEN FOR?
 How have Macbeth and Lady Macbeth changed since the
beginning? What is Macbeth’s hamartia (tragic flaw)?
 New Predictions for
Macbeth?
1)
2)
3)
MACBETH:
 “We still have judgement
here…bloody instructions,
which being taught, return to
plague the inventor. This
even-handed justice commends
th’ ingredience of our poisoned
chalice to our own lips.” (pg. 39)
LADY MACBETH:
 “These deeds must not be
thought after these ways; so, it
will make us mad.” (pg. 57)
“To know my deed
‘twere best not know
myself.”
(Macbeth - pg. 61)
ACT V
The final “act”
ACT V
The final “act”
MACBETH’S STATE OF MIND:
 “I cannot taint with fear!... The heart I bear shall never sag
with doubt nor shake with fear!”
YET…
 “My way of life is fall ’n into the sere, the yellow leaf, and
that which should accompany old age, as honor, love,
obedience, troops of friends, I must NOT look to have.”
STATE OF SCOTLAND:
 Army: “Those he commands move
only in command, nothing in love.
 Thanes/Nobles: “March we on to
give obedience to where it is truly
owed.”
LADY MACBETH’S PECULIARITY
 “Out,
damned spot, out I say!”
 “Here’s the smell
of blood still.
All the perfumes of Arabia will
NOT sweeten this little hand.”
DOCTOR:
 “Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles…
More needs she the DIVINE than the physician.”
SECOND SET OF PROPHECIES
 Armed Head: “Beware Macduff. Beware the Thane of Fife”
 Bloody Baby: “None born of woman shall harm Macbeth”
 Prince with a Tree: “Never vanquish be until Great
Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill come against him”
MALCOLM’S BRILLIANCE:
 “Let every soldier hew
him
down a bough and bear ‘t
before him. Thereby we shall
we shadow the numbers of our
host and make discovery err in
report of us.
~ INVERNESS ~
HIGH ON DUNSINANE HILL
~ INVERNESS ~
LADY MACBETH’S CHAMBERS
~ BIRNAM WOODS ~
DEATH OF LADY MACBETH
 Macbeth - “I have almost forgot the taste fears…
Out, out brief candle. Life is but a walking
shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his
hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and
fury, signifying nothing.”
YOUNG SIWARD’S DEATH
 VALOR - “The devil himself could not pronounce a
title more hateful to mine ear!”
 “Had I as many sons as I have hairs, I would not wish
them to a fairer death.”
MACDUFF’S VENGENCE
 Why won’t Macbeth fight him at
first?
 What surprising news do we
receive about Macduff?
 MACBETH claims, “[The Weird
Sisters] 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!”
What does this mean?
How is all of this tragic?
 How have Macbeth and Lady Macbeth changed since
the beginning? What is Macbeth’s hamartia? What
led to their downfalls?
 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?
 GENDER ROLES: What are the
different views of being “manly”
throughout the play? Do they fit
with today’s standards?
MACBETH:
 “We still have judgement
here…bloody instructions,
which being taught, return to
plague the inventor. This
even-handed justice commends
th’ ingredience of our poisoned
chalice to our own lips.” (pg. 39)
LADY MACBETH:
 “These deeds must not be
thought after these ways; so, it
will make us mad.” (pg. 57)
“To know my deed
‘twere best not know
myself.”
(Macbeth - pg. 61)
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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MACBETH REVIEW
SCOTLAND
 King Duncan
• Malcolm
• Donalbain
 Macbeth & Lady
Macbeth
 Banquo
• Fleance
 Macduff
 Nobles:
• Thane of Cawdor
• Lennox, Ross, Angus,
Menteith
ENGLAND
King Edward
Siward
Young Siward
Norway
• Macdonwald
Supernatural
• Hecate
• 3 Weird Sisters
MACBETH REVIEW
• THEMES (remember to put in opinionated sentence form):
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Appearances vs. Reality
Fate vs. Free Will
Masculinity
Ambition (Macbeth’s Hamartia)
• TERMS TO KNOW:
 Tragedy
• Hamartia (tragic flaw)
 Comic Relief
 Paradox
 Soliloquy
 Internal/External Conflict
MacBINGO
• STEP 1: Follow
directions on how to fill
out your card
• STEP 2: Play Bingo!
 You win horizontal,
vertical, and diagonal
 Mark one word per
answer
 Yell Bingo 
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.
• MANHOOD/MASCULINITY
 Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, Macduff
• APPEARANCES CAN BE DECIEVING
 Lady
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
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 to be a deed of dreadful note.”
• *MALCOLM: “I put myself to thy direction, and unspeak