To build background for better understanding of the play

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Purpose Introduction

• To build background for better understanding of
  the play
• To relate to your own experiences
• To appreciate Shakespeares skill
• To increase knowledge of other cultures
• To analyze Elizabethan drama
• To plan, prepare, present literary
  interpretations
• To improve your reading, writing, and analyzing
  skills

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Who was Macbeth, anyway?

• Scottish king from AD 1040 to AD 1057
• Scotland prospered under Macbeths rule
• He appeared to be a good king
• Shakespeare changed all of that

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Why Study Shakespeare?
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Curses!!!

• Did you know that there is a horrible curse on
  the play?
• There are many strange accidents and incidents
  that have occurred during productions.
• That Scottish Play never say the name of the
  play

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1272-1305 Every man dies, not every man lives.
William Wallace
Rob Roy
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William Wallace

• Kilts and tartans

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What are Scottish clans?
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Christie Tartan
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Map of Scotland and Glamis
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Nessie the Loch Ness Monster- a neighbor of
Macbeth.
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The Weird Sisters

• Fair is foul, foul is fair,
• Hover through the fog and filthy air.

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Fate and Other Things Strange Something wicked
this way comes.

• Can you define Fate? Is
  witchcraft still thriving today?
  
• Have you ever had your fortune told?
• Have you ever seen a ghost?

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Common Themes

• Corruption of power
• Blind ambition
• Appearance vs. reality
• Superstition and its effect on human behavior
• What are the characteristics of an evil person?
• Are temptation, desire, ambition evil traits?
• Effects of concealed guilt

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Common Repeated Images

• Sleep
• Blood
• Disease
• Clothing
• Light and Darkness

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Some familiar terms

• Tragic hero
• Aristotles concept of tragedy
• Hubris
• Hamartia
• Allusion
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Alliteration

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Terms again

• Foreshadowing
• Dramatic irony
• Aside
• Soliloquy
• Blank verse
• Iambic pentameter
• Rhymed couplet
• Tanistry

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More stuff

• The Great Chain of Being

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Framework of a Tragedy

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Shakespeareand his own curse
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Holy Trinity Church in Stratford upon Avon,
England
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Shakespeare The Greatest of the Greats
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Shakespeare The Greatest of the Greats Lets
Review
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A Final Thought
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Whats on for Today?

• Denotation
• Connotation
• Stress
• Inflection

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• So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
• List synonyms for the words foul and fair.
• This statement is called a paradox.
• What others have you noticed?

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• Stress
• He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute
  trust.
• Stress a different word each time you read the
  line.
• How does the meaning change?

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• Inflection
• Is execution done on Cawdor?
• Rise and fall of your voice
• How does the meaning change?

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Nonverbal communication

• What meaning is implied without words?

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• How does Banquo feel about the witches
  predictions?
• How does Macbeth feel?
• Who is the topic of conversation at the start of
  scene 4?
• How might Duncans words to Macbeth, as Macbeth
  enters, seem ironic?
• How does Macbeth feel now that Malcolm has been
  named Price of Cumberland?
• Do we have any clues about how he will behave in
  the future?

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Sonnet- Elizabethan or Shakespearean

• 14 line poem
• Contains 3 quatrains and a rhymed couplet
• 10 syllable line of unstressed / stressed
  syllables.
• Divided into five feet
• Rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg

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