Background Macbeth

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Background Macbeth
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Are fate and destiny the same thing? Explain
using details

• Fate An inevitable and often adverse outcome,
  condition or end

• Destiny a predetermined course of events often
  held to be an irresistible power or agency

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What is the fate of the following characters from
literature?
Character Fate
Beowulf
Huck Finn
King Arthur
Elie Wiesel
Gatsby
Sir Gawain
Romeo and Juliet
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Free response

• Choose one of the characters and discuss your
  opinion of his/her fate. Be sure to include
  whether or not you believe they could have
  avoided their fate and why.

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Now, you decide

• Do we control our own fate/destiny? Explain your
  response with at least two specific reasons.

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Definitions

• Character gives a speech on stage by themselves
  revealing their inner thoughts
• Speech by one character to another
• Private remark from a character not meant to be
  heard by all
• Characters whose words connect ideas
• Main characterhigh rankflawed behavior brings
  downfall
• The part of the main characters behavior that
  leads to a fatal mistake
• Relieves tension Shakespeare uses lower ranks

• Soliloquy
• Monologue
• Aside
• Chorus
• Tragic hero
• Tragic flaw
• Comic relief

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The Globe
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Thematic Connections

• Fate/Destiny Vs. Free will
• Do we control our own destiny?
• Succumbing to peer pressure
• How do peers influence us?
• Defining manhood
• How does society define manhood?
• Effective leadership
• What makes a good leader?
• What corrupts leaders?

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Lady Macbeth Macbeths Peer Pressure dilemma

• Inhuman Monster Like Grendel?
• Evil Beauty Like?
• Weak Woman Like?

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Leadership Modern Macbeth?

• Dictatorships in South America
• 1920s Mob Wars
• Other examples?

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Relating through thematic connectionsMacbeth as
a common man

• What is right? What is wrong? How can I decide?
• Faust Legend Making a deal with the
  devilredeemed by virtues or condemned by evil
  doings.

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Religious Ideals

• Christian Catholic Vs. Protestant
• Macbeth doesnt acknowledge speaks of eternal
  jewel as his soul given to the common enemy of
  man the devil.

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Setting Scotland

• Appeal to the religious ruling class of the time
• Witches and reference to family ties.

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King James VI I

• Sixth and Firstwhat?
• King James VI of Scotland (Sixth King James)
• 1603 became the King of England making him James
  I of England (First King James)
• Family Tree
• End the House of Tudor (King Henry VIII Anne
  Boleyn Elizabeth I Virgin Queen (No heir)
  names James of Scotland heir)
• Start of House of Stuart
• Start of Great Britain

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Under King James VI I

• Golden Age of literature continues (Still
  Renaissance period)
• The King James Version of the Bible is
  commissioned
• First legal English version for which the
  reformationists had been advocating for years.

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James Review

• List 2 important facts you learned about King
  James today.

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Shakespeares Language

• The Bible brought the language fluencyhelped
  Shakespeare too
• Blank verse/Iambic pentameter (worksheet and
  discussion)

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Dark side of King James

• Macbeth Written around 1603-1607
• Used Macbeth of Scotland, Macduff and Duncan from
  Hollinshed Chronicles for characters
• Homage to new Scottish King?
• ExceptMacbeth was well admired in history
• King James became obsessed with hunting down
  witches
• Wrote Daemonologie which inspired and provided
  background for Macbeth.

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DESCRIBE THE MOODUSE SPECIFIC DETAILS
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DESCRIBE THE MOODUSE SPECIFIC DETAILS
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DESCRIBE THE MOODUSE SPECIFIC DETAILS
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NOT A FAMILY DRAMA

• Macbeth introduced as a soldier cutting an enemy
  open (unseamed) from belly button (navel) to
  throat (chops)
• Witches shows her friends a chopped off thumb of
  a ships pilot
• Lady Macbeth prays for the devil to posses her
  and give her a mans ability to do evil
• Lady Macbeth tries to emasculate her husband by
  ridiculing him for not committing murder

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Act I Scene I

• A desert place
• Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches

What is the mood of Macbeth?
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Visual Notes