William Shakespeare

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Macbeth

• William Shakespeare

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Anticipating Macbeth

• Directions The words below are taken from
  Shakespeares tragedy Macbeth. Read the words
  below and construct a storyline based on them.
  Write out your storyline using each of the words.
  

• Scotland
• Three witches
• Prophesy
• King Duncan
• Battle
• Macbeth
• Banquo
• Valiant
• Thane of Glamis and Cawdor
• King
• Lady Macbeth
• Manhood

• Murder
• Blood
• Dagger
• Greed
• Betrayal
• Ghost
• Crazy
• Macduff
• Apparitions
• Birnam Wood
• None of woman born
• Double, double, toil and trouble

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Patron Publishing

• King James I requested commissioned Shakespeare
  to write Macbeth
• Intrigue in witches
• Descendent of Banquo
• Shortest of Shakespeares plays b/c James hated
  long plays
• Wrote in 1606
• Wrote it in about 2 weeks

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Historical Connections

• Based on Holinsheds Chroniclesa history of the
  isle
• 3 stories woven into one
• King Duncan
• 1040 killed by Macbeth
• Macbeth killed by Duncans sons
• 17 year peaceful reign
• King Succession in Scotland
• Kings not succeeded by eldest sons
• Eldest male blood-relativethats why Macbeth
  becomes King
• Other historical characters
• Lady Macbeth
• Banquo

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Setting Scotland
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Macbeths Scotland
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Central Characters

• MacbethTitle character tragic hero
• Lady MacbethMacbeths wife
• Banquomilitary captain, nobleman, Macbeths
  friend
• FleanceBanquos son
• King DuncanKing of Scotland
• Malcolm DonalbainKings sons
• MacduffThane of Fife
• Three Witches

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Three Witches
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Major Conflicts

• Man vs. Self (internal)
• The struggle within Macbeth between his ambition
  and his sense of right and wrong
• Man vs. Man (external)
• The struggle between the murderous evil
  represented by Macbeth and Lady Macbeth and the
  best interests of the nation, represented by
  Malcolm and Macduff

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Themes

• Corrupting power of unchecked ambition
• Relationship between cruelty and masculinity
• Difference between kingship and tyranny
• Fate vs. Freedom of Choice
• Power of Deception

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Motifs Symbols

• Motifs recurring structures, contrasts, or
  literary devices that can help to develop and
  inform the texts major themes.
• Hallucinations Sleep/Sleeplessness
• Supernatural Prophesy
• Disruption of natural order Violence
• Symbol An object or action in a literary work
  that means more than itself, that stands for
  something beyond itself.
• Blood (referenced over 100 times)
• Dagger
• Weather
• Poorly fitt clothing

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Prominent Literary Devices

• Foreshadowing
• to indicate or suggest something, usually
  something unpleasant, that is going to happen
• Prophesy
• Fair is foul, and foul is fair (1.1.11-12).
• What could this be foreshadowing?

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Prominent Literary Devices

• Verbal Irony
• Someone says one thing but means the opposite.
• Dramatic Irony
• The reader knows what is in store for a
  character, but the character does not.
• Situational Irony
• Describes an occurrence that is the opposite of
  what we expected.
• Ambiguity
• Offers us a choice of more than one meaning or
  interpretation.

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Understanding Shakespeare

• Madness
• Elizabethan Theatre
• Monologue
• Soliloquy
• Aside
• Iambic pentameter Blank Verse
• Archaic language words that change in meaning
• Foil characters
• Allusions
• Greek Roman myth, history
• The Weird Sisters reference the 3 Fates
• Shakespeares Plot Diagram
• Paraphrase, paraphrase, paraphrase!

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