Macbeth

For next week - 2/28 - 3/1

  Acting/Memorization

OBJECTIVES:

Students will demonstrate an understanding of a character(s) from Macbeth by acting out from memory at least 16 lines and by turning in an acting script outlining subtext and emotion for their scene and character.  You can act out either a soliloquy, or a scene.  You can play more than one character and/or you can work in a group.  If you work in a group, every person will need to have at least 18 lines.

Students will be graded in the following ways:

16 lines memorized = 64 points.

Acting (subtext with emotion/ blocking) = 35 points.
Every line above 20 = 1 extra credit point.        

Act 5

MACBETH: Study Questions—ACT 5

Scene 1

1) What do the nurse (gentlewoman) and the doctor see?
2) What does Lady Macbeth mean when she says, “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!...will these hands never be clean.”
3) What is wrong with Lady Macbeth at this point of the play?

Scene 2

1) What happens in this scene? What new characters are introduced? Why?
2) What is the significance of the scene?
3) What is meant when Caithness says, “Some say he’d mad; others that lesser hate him do call it valiant fury”?

Scene 3

1) How would you describe Macbeth’s attitude and mood in this scene?
2) Why isn’t Macbeth afraid? Do his soldier’s seem afraid? Why or why not?

Scene 4

1) What does Malcolm order the soldiers to do?

Scene 5

1) What is meant when Macbeth says, “She should have died here-after”?
2) What is the significant of the following quote, “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is told no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing.”

Scene 6

1) What is important about this scene?

Scene 7

1) Who does Macbeth kill in this scene? What is significant about this death?

Scene 8

1) What happens in this scene?
2) Why does Macbeth lose heart in the fight against Macduff?
3) Who is named king at the end of the play?

Homework

While I'm gone to Tok, here is what I want you to do.

1) Study for the Quiz over Acts 3 and 4 of Macbeth.
2) In your textbooks (the big books) read Act 3 Scene 2 of JULIUS CAESAR (pages 1248-1255).  Pay particular attention to Antony's oration starting on line 70.  How does Antony persuade his audience?  What types of persuasive tools, think Logos, Ethos, Pathos here?  How does he twist or turn Brutus' words?
3) Take quiz on Macbeth.

Macbeth Review

MACBETH REVIEW GUIDE

Things to know:

• List the five elements of tragedy
• List the five elements of a tragic hero
• Discuss Macbeth’s tragic flaw
• Discuss who wins in Macbeth and why? Who is the hero?
• Define soliloquy and monologue and point to examples from Macbeth
• Outline the plot according to the six elements of plot: exposition, inciting event, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution (give at least three events for the rising and falling action)
• Identify the following characters and discuss they roles in the play (Who they are, What they do, Why the do what they do)

Macbeth Macduff The Porter
Lady Macbeth Lady Macduff The Witches
Duncan Lennox The Doctor
Malcolm Ross The Bloody Captain
Donalbain Seyton Fleance
Banquo Menteith Siward


• Discuss and give examples of the following THEMES:

--Blind Ambition
--The Corruption of Power
--Appearance vs. Reality
--Superstition and how it affects human behavior
--Good vs. Evil

• Discuss the following symbols/motifs (what people and/or ideas the represent and connect them to a theme)

--washing of hands --blood
--planting of seeds, things growing
--the atmosphere of Macbeth’s castle
--spells or chants and supernatural beings
--weather --daggers
--spirits, scorpions, snakes and things in the mind
--birds and flying:
Eagles Crows
Sparrows Geese
Owl Wren
Martlet
Falcon
• Identify the speaker and the significant of important and famous quotes from the following characters:

Witches, Apparitions, Banquo, Duncan, Macduff, Malcolm, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, The Bloody Captain, Lady Macduff, Ross

• Know and review your study questions for each Act (you should have done these for homework). Some of these questions will be on the test.