Outcome:

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Outcome

• Pupils will begin to analyse Act 5 Scene 1 of
  Shakespeares Macbeth.

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Setting the Scene Act 5 Scene 1

• Lady Macbeth persuades her husband to murder King
  Duncan.
• Then, to cover his tracks and protect his throne,
  Macbeth has Banquo murdered.
• He then attempts to have Macduff killed but only
  manages to kill his family.
• Lady Macbeth, in this scene, dreams about her
  part in these crimes.
• Act 5 Scene 1 is known as the sleepwalking
  scene.

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Act 5, Scene 1
Side room
Macbeths castle

• Dunsinane, an ante-room in the castle.
      Enter a Doctor of Physic and a
  Waiting-Gentlewoman Doctor     I have two
  nights watched with you, but can perceive     no
  truth in your report. When was it she last
  walked? Gentlewoman     Since his majesty
  went into the field, I have seen     her rise
  from her bed, throw her night-gown upon     her,
  unlock her closet, take forth paper, fold it,
      write upon't, read it, afterwards seal it,
  and again     return to bed yet all this while
  in a most fast sleep.

Physicmedicine. You could also have a Dr of the
Church
see
sleepwalked
One of Lady Ms servants
Since Macbeth went to the battlefield
Closetsmall private room for study/prayer
Target Question Why is LM writing letters in her
sleep?
Where have we seen her with a letter before?
Fast asleep
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Disturbance in her character

• Doctor   A great perturbation in nature, to
  receive at once     the benefit of sleep, and do
  the effects of     watching! In this slumbery
  agitation, besides her     walking and other
  actual performances, what, at any     time, have
  you heard her say?

The actions of someone awake
Sleep walking
Has she said anything in her sleep?
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She has said things I wont repeat

• Gentlewoman     That, sir, which I will not
  report after her. Doctor     You may to me
  and 'tis most meet you should. Gentlewoman
      Neither to you nor any one having no
  witness to     confirm my speech.

It is right that you should
Im saying nothing as I have no witnesses to back
me up.
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Enter LADY MACBETH, with a taper
A small light
Look

• Gentlewoman
•      Lo you, here she comes! This is her very
  guise     and, upon my life, fast asleep.
  Observe her stand close. Doctor     How
  came she by that light? Gentlewoman     Why,
  it stood by her she has light by her
      continually 'tis her command.

This is exactly how she looks.
How did she get that light?
Target Question In Act 1 Scene 5, Lady Macbeth
calls on thick night to cover the murder. Why
does she now continually want light?
Stood by her bed. She has commanded that she
always has light.
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• Doctor
• You see, her eyes are open. Gentlewoman Ay,
  but their sense is shut. Doctor What is it
  she does now? Look, how she rubs her hands.
  Gentlewoman It is an accustomed action with
  her, to seem thus washing her hands I have known
  her continue in this a quarter of an hour.
      

She cant what is happening around her, where she
is.
Familiar
To seem like shes washing her hands.
Target Question Why is Lady M Washing her hands
in her sleep?
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Still, heres a spot of blood-she cant get it
all off.

• Lady MacbethYet here's a spot. Doctor
• Hark! she speaks
• I will set down what
• comes from her, to satisfy
• my remembrance the
• more strongly.

Listen
Write down
To help my memory
Target Question In this picture why is the
blood only dripping in the shadow?
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Cursed, destined to go to hell.

• Lady Macbeths next line is
• Out, damned spot! out, I say!
• Imagine you are an actress playing LM. What would
  your EVA be like when saying these lines?
• Copy out the quotation and complete these
  sentences
• Her expression should be............because.....
  .........
• The actresses voice would be ..............since
  .........
• Her actions..........For the reason
  that..............

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An old word used to show disgust with, somebody.
Time to do what?

• Lady Macbeth    Out, damned spot! out, I
  say!--One two why,     then, 'tis time to
  do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my     lord, fie! a
  soldier, and afeard? What need we     fear who
  knows it, when none can call our power to
      account?--Yet who would have thought the old
  man     to have had so much blood in him.

A soldier and scared!-Who is she talking to?
Weve no need to be scared who knows that we
killed Duncan?
Target Question Who is the old man?
Nobody can question our actions-why?
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notice

• Doctor     Do you mark that? Lady
  Macbeth    The thane of Fife had a wife where
  is she now?--     What, will these hands ne'er
  be clean?--No more o'     that, my lord, no more
  o' that you mar all with     this starting.

Thane of FifeMacduff. His wife and family were
murdered by Macbeth.
spoil
Target Question How would the doctor say these
lines to the gentlewoman?
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Go away, youve heard something you shouldnt.

• Doctor     Go to, go to you have known what
  you should not. Gentlewoman     She has spoke
  what she should not, I am sure of     that
  heaven knows what she has known.

She has said something she shouldnt.
God knows her crimes.
Target Question Who last used heaven and hell
imagery?
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Target Question Why wont the perfumes wash
away the smell?

• Lady Macbeth     Here's the smell of the blood
  still all the     perfumes of Arabia will not
  sweeten this little     hand. Oh, oh, oh!

She lets out a series of moans.
Arabia (in the Middle East) was famous in
Shakespeares time for exotic perfumes
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Painfully heavy/full

• Doctor     What a sigh is there! The heart is
  sorely charged.

To charge a glass means to fill it up
Target Questions What does the doctor mean when
he says her heart is full?
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Task

• What does this picture have to do with Lady
  Macbeth?

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• Gentlewoman     I would not have such a heart
  in my bosom for the     dignity of the whole
  body.

Chest
Worth/value
Target Questions Why doesnt the Gentlewoman
want Lady Macbeths heart?
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The Four Humoursmoods

• Doctors in Shakespeares time thought that the
  human body was filled with four basic substances,
  called humours.
• If they were balanced you were healthy.
• If they were unbalanced (you had too much or two
  little of one of them) they could make you sick
  and affect your personality.
• The four humours were called
• Black bile, made you melancholy sad.
• Yellow bile, made you angry and bad tempered.
• Phlegm, made you unemotional and calm.
• Blood, made you brave and amorous. If you had too
  much of this doctors would bleed you with
  leeches!!!

What kind of person are you? Which humour have
you got too much of?
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Diagnosis Murderer

• The four humours were called
• Black bile, made you melancholy sad.
• Yellow bile, made you angry and bad tempered.
• Phlegm, made you unemotional and calm.
• Blood, made you brave and amorous. If you had too
  much of this doctors would bleed you with
  leeches!!!
• If you were the Doctor of Physic investigating
  Lady Macbeths illness, which of these humours
  would you diagnose as her problem? What is your
  evidence?

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• What has this picture got to do with the scenes
  we are studying?

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• What about this one?

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Hes interested

• Doctor     Well, well, well,-- Gentlewoman
      Pray God it be, sir.

I pray to God it is well.
She takes the word well to mean good/healthy.
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Metaphor, guilt as a disease.

• Doctor     This disease is beyond my practise
  yet I have known     those which have walked in
  their sleep who have died     holily in their
  beds.

My experience or skill.
But
Like saints
Target Question Why does the Dr say this?
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She is reliving the events after the murder.

• Lady Macbeth     Wash your hands, put on your
  nightgown look not so     pale.--I tell you yet
  again, Banquo's buried he     cannot come out
  on's grave. Doctor     Even so?

Of his
What part of the play is she reliving here?
Is that right?
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• Lady Macbeth   To bed, to bed! there's
  knocking at the gate     come, come, come,
  come, give me your hand. What's     done cannot
  be undone.--To bed, to bed, to bed!     Exit

After the murder of Duncan, Macduff arrives and
knocks the porter of Macbeths castle up
Target Question What cant be undone?
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• Doctor     Will she go now to bed?
  Gentlewoman     Directly.

Straight there, straight away
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amongst people
Horrible rumours are spreading.

• Doctor
• Foul whisperings are abroad unnatural deeds
      Do breed unnatural troubles infected minds
      To their deaf pillows will discharge their
  secrets

Unnatural actions
Blood will have blood
Metaphor, guilt as a disease
Personification-pillows with human qualities
Target Question What foul whisperings does he
mean?
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Task - Metaphor Mapping

• Why is guilt like a disease?

GUILT
DISEASE
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A priest, bishop etc in the service of God.

• More needs she the divine than the physician.
      God, God forgive us all!

Doctor
Target Question Why does Lady Macbeth need a
priest rather than a doctor?
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Remove anything she could use to hurt herself

• Look after her     Remove from her the
  means of all annoyance,     And still keep eyes
  upon her. So, good night     My mind she has
  mated, and amazed my sight.     I think, but
  dare not speak. Gentlewoman     Good night,
  good doctor.     Exeunt

Beaten-checkmated, winning move in chess
Target Question Why wont he speak?
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The Doctor says Unnatural deeds do breed
unnatural troublesWhat is unnatural in the
play?