What will we learn today

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What will we learn today?

• We will learn why Macbeth was written
• Who the play was written to please.
• About the character of Macbeth and why he gutted
  his friend Duncun.

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What do you know about the play Macbeth?
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Your essay titleExplain what Act One, Scene
Seven tells us about the characters of Macbeth.
What is troubling Macbeth at the beginning of the
scene and how does Lady Macbeth persuade him to
go through with the murder of Duncan?
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Once upon a time...
There was once a king called James and he ruled
England and Scotland during the 1600's. (19 June
1566 27 March 1625 to be precise).
That's him there by the way.
He was Scottish by birth and into the
supernatural. Witches and what not.
He believed he was descended from the legendary
Banquo who was mentioned by a historian called
Holinshed. Hollinshed wrote about a bloke called
Macbeth who killed a real king Duncan centuries
ago. Duncan was a useless king though and Macbeth
ruled for 17 years much better.
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Why did Shakespeare write Macbeth?
It was written to please King James the first,
who was king of both Scotland and England at the
time the play was written. Shakespeare wanted the
king to come see his play and make it famous and
give him loads of money. How might have the play
been changed if King James had been Russian, into
puppies and a supposed descendant of pygmies?
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How was Scottish royalty chosen and set up at the
time?
Macbeth starts off in the play as Thane of Glamis
but he becomes Thane of Cawdor.
What does this mean?
Well a Thane is like an English Earl and so being
a Thane would make Macbeth a noble man.
What's so good about that? I hear you ask. Well
Macbeth would get to own Cawdor as Thane of it.
The people in Cawdor would work for him and he
would get a cool castle and lots of cash and
land.
You were not born a king, you became one through
being a good fighter and a strong man. Kings were
warriors, soldiers, defenders of Scotland.
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Killing the king, bad!
The king was next to God in the hierarchy. He was
the nearest thing to God on Earth. In killing
the King, Macbeth was condemning himself to hell
for all eternity. It was a big thing in those
days, religion. They truly believed it. Macbeth
risked certain death and his head being put on a
stick after being hung, drawn and quartered if he
was caught after killing the king.
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Three strange witches meet
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King Duncan wins a great battle. Macbeth is a
hero
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Macbeth and Banquo meet the witches. They tell
Macbeth he will be Thane of Cawdor, then King.
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Duncan makes Macbeth Thane of Cawdor
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Macbeth writes a letter to Lady Macbeth, telling
her what the witches say
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Macbeth and Lady Macbeth plot to kill King Duncan
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Duncan comes to stay at Macbeths castle
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Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth to go ahead with
the murder
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Macbeth murders Duncan
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Malcolm and Donalbain escape to England and
Ireland
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Macbeth is crowned King of Scotland
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Macbeth does not trust Banquo. He has him
murdered.
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Macbeth has a feast. Banquos ghost appears to
him.
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Macbeth revisits the witches. He sees strange
apparitions.
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Macduffs wife and children are killed by order
of Macbeth.
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Malcolm, Macduff and others plot to kill Macbeth.
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Lady Macbeth becomes mad. She dies.
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The castle is attacked and Macbeth is killed.
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Malcolm is proclaimed king.
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Knowing the whole plot of Macbeth is important
to writing the essay.So you have the whole play
clear in your minds I would like you to create
your own storyboard in pairs.
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MACBETH If it were done when 'tis done, then
'twere wellIt were done quickly if the
assassinationCould trammel up the consequence,
and catchWith his surcease success that but
this blowMight be the be-all and the end-all
here,But here, upon this bank and shoal of
time,We'ld jump the life to come. But in these
casesWe still have judgment here that we but
teachBloody instructions, which, being taught,
returnTo plague the inventor this even-handed
justiceCommends the ingredients of our poison'd
chaliceTo our own lips. He's here in double
trustFirst, as I am his kinsman and his
subject,Strong both against the deed then, as
his host,Who should against his murderer shut
the door,Not bear the knife myself. Besides,
this DuncanHath borne his faculties so meek,
hath beenSo clear in his great office, that his
virtuesWill plead like angels, trumpet-tongued,
againstThe deep damnation of his taking-offAnd
pity, like a naked new-born babe,Striding the
blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsedUpon the
sightless couriers of the air,Shall blow the
horrid deed in every eye,That tears shall drown
the wind. I have no spurTo prick the sides of my
intent, but onlyVaulting ambition, which
o'erleaps itselfAnd falls on the other.
If we kill the king it does not mean I will
become king.
If we kill the king we might be killed ourselves
As his host, I should protect him, not kill him.
Duncan is a good king, his good points make me
want to not hurt him.
Everyone will mourn his death and I have no
desire to hurt all the people who love him, even
to become king.