Thursday

 Today you will be working on your Macbeth essays. These are due tomorrow at the beginning of class.

On Monday you have time to review and study for the upcoming test on Macbeth (which will be on Wednesday). Below is a list of objectives, a review and study guide - you might want to copy and paste it. TUESDAY IS THE TEST!

OBJECTIVES: At the end of this unit students will be able to

Knowledge:

1) List the five elements of tragedy
2) List the five elements of a tragic hero
3) Define theme, plot, setting, foreshadow, oxymoron, soliloquy, personification, dramatic foil, metaphor (three types), symbol, simile

Comprehension:

4) Identify a metaphor (direct, implied, extended), simile, pun or symbol within the play
5) Give a brief description of all the characters and their roles in the play
6) Given a line of dialogue identify the speaker
7) Outline the plot and break in up into exposition, inciting event, rising action, climax, falling action and catastrophe (or resolution)
8) Summarize each scene into a headline
9) Identify the tragic hero and his/her tragic flaw
10) Discuss the motivations of all major characters (why they do the things they do)

Application

11) Demonstrate an understanding of a scene in a drawing
12) Demonstrate a relation of characters to contemporary times through a simulation
13) Demonstrate an understanding of characters and acting techniques by writing out a script (including the lines, subtext, emotion or tone, and blocking) and acting out the scene from memory
14) Demonstrate an understanding of the play by writing journal entries and in-class writing assignments including a Dear Abbey Letter, interviews, diary entries from characters’ perspective, personal responses, and in-class presentations on characters.
15) Demonstrate an understanding of parts of the play by translation Shakespeare’s lines into contemporary English
16) Write a poem or a rap about Macbeth
17) Research a character: the different critical views and present findings to class

Analysis


18) Write a analysis paper on some element or question of Macbeth

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.

MACBETH Study Guide

 

1)             Outline the plot according to the six elements (make sure you list each) and please give three scenes for the rising action and falling action.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2)             Define monologue and soliloquy and give an example of each from Macbeth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3)             What is Macbeth’s Tragic Flaw?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4)             Explain how the following themes work in Macbeth and give two examples of each:  “Blind Ambition” and “Superstition and how it affects a person’s behavior”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5)             Discuss the following motifs/symbols and what they represent: spells or chants and the planting of seeds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6)             What do the following represent:

Eagles

 

Sparrows

 

Owl

 

Martlet

 

Falcon

 

Crows

 

Geese

 

Wren

 

7)             Identify the following characters (who they are, what they do, why they do what they do):

 

Banquo:

 

Doctor:

 

Donalbain:

 

The Witches:

 

Ross:

 

The Bloody Captian:

 

Lennox:

 

Fleance:

 

8)             Who is knocking at the gates in Act II?  What does this foreshadow?

 

 

 

 

 

 

9)             List one irony from the play.

 

 

10)          How does Lady Macbeth lose power in this play?

 

 

11)          Who tells Macbeth that Lady Macbeth is dead?

 

 

12)          Why is Lady Macbeth upset with Macbeth after he kills Duncan?

 

 

13)          What three things does the Porter say about drink?

 

 

 

14)           Who invites evil spirits to the castle?   How and why?

 

 

 

15)          Set up with a thesis a short essay that explains who wins in Macbeth and why?  Make sure you use examples from the text to back up your ideas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the following quotes identify the speaker:

 

 

16)          “Your castle is surprised; your wife and babies are savagely slaughtered.”

 

 

 

17)          “And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray us in deepest consequence”

 

 

 

18)          “As sparrows, eagles, or the hare the lion.  If I say sooth, I must report they were as cannons overcharged with double cracks, so they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe.”

 

 

 

19)          “Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t”

 

 

20)          “Out, out, brief candle!  Life’s 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.”