Macbeth act 1 - 5V

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  MACBETH

  ACT I

Who is the king when the play starts?

1. Duncan
2. Cawdor
3. Malcolm
4. Macduff

Whom does Macbeth defeat in battle?

1. Duncan's armies
2. King Edward's English army
3. The armies of Norway and Ireland
4. Banquo

What do the witches prophecy?

1. Macbeth will be king and his sons will inherit the throne
2. Banquo will be king, but Macbeth will be much happier
3. Macbeth will be king, but Banquo will murder him
4. Macbeth will be king and Banquo's sons will be kings

What title, predicted by the witches, does Macbeth receive?

1. Earl of Dunsinane
2. Thane of Cawdor
3. Thane of Glamis
4. Prince of Scotland

Who is made heir to King Duncan's throne?

1. Macbeth
2. Malcolm
3. Donaldbain
4. Macduff

What does Lady Macbeth resolve to do?

1. Talk to the three witches
2. Kill Duncan herself
3. Protect Duncan from Macbeth's blood lust
4. Whatever necessary to help Macbeth become king

What does Lady Macbeth think Macbeth lacks?

1. Modesty
2. The manliness to follow through on his ambitions
3. The ambition to ever become someone notable
4. The intelligence to be a king

What do Lady Macbeth's words "unsex me here" mean?

1. She vows not to have sex with Macbeth until he becomes king
2. She wants her chambermaids to disguise her in men's clothes
3. She wants to set aside feminine sentiments that could hinder bloody ambitions
4. She wants to have sex with evil spirits

What does Macbeth realize about the consequences of Duncan's murder?

1. Other than satisfying his own ambitions, it will make everything worse
2. It will be a simple and tidy route to achieving all his ambitions
3. Though he'll become king, he'll lose his hold on Cawdor
4. If the witches are right, he will become both a king and an immortal

What is Lady Macbeth's plan for murdering Duncan?

1. Macbeth will pour poison in his ear and will blame the King's brother
2. Macbeth will hire three murderers to ambush Duncan when he returns to his castle
3. Macbeth will stab him in his sleep and plant the bloody evidence on the servants
4. Macbeth will push him out the window during a tour of the castle

Name three things which characterise act 1

                     SOLILOQUY

A soliloquy is a speech performed by a single character, usually in a play.
In a soliloquy the character speaks his thoughts out loud, to himself. This literary device allows the audience to know what the character is thinking, though the other characters are not present and therefore do not know this information.

A soliloquy - from the Latin solus ("alone") and loqui ("to speak") - is a speech that one gives to oneself.

In a play, a character delivering a soliloquy talks to himself/herself - thinking out loud, as it were - so that the audience better understands what is happening to the character internally.

Macbeth - Thane 

• (in Anglo-Saxon England) a man who held land granted by the king or by a military nobleman, ranking between an ordinary freeman and a hereditary noble.
  
• (in Scotland) a man, often the chief of a clan, who held land from a Scottish king and ranked with an earl's son.

                               "the Thane of Cawdor"

Aside (soliloquy versus aside)

An aside is a short comment or speech that a character delivers directly to the audience, or to himself, while other actors on the stage appear not to hear. Only the audience knows that the character has said something to them.

Aside versus soliloquy. The difference between them is that an aside is a shorter comment, while a soliloquy is a longer speech. Further, an aside reveals hidden secrets or judgments, whereas the soliloquy reveals motives, inner thoughts, or internal struggles going on in the mind of the character.

Pathetic Fallacy

Pathetic fallacy is a literary device that attributes human qualities and emotions to inanimate objects of nature. 

Pathetic fallacy is a kind of personification that gives human emotions to inanimate objects of nature; for example, referring to weather features reflecting a mood. Personification, on the other hand, is a broader term. It gives human attributes to abstract ideas, animate objects of nature, or inanimate non-natural objects.

For example, the sentence “The somber clouds darkened our mood” is a pathetic fallacy, as human attributes are given to an inanimate object of nature reflecting a mood. But, the sentence “The sparrow talked to us” is a personification because the animate object of nature – the sparrow – is given the human quality of “talking.”

Macbeth - setting

Group work

Answer the following questions in groups of 2 to 3.

Macbeth, Act I

1. How is pathetic fallacy used in Act 1, Scene1? (p.3)
2. Explain the quote ' fair is foul and foul is fair'? What textual feature is used in this quote? (p. 3) 
3. After hearing he is Thane of Cawdor, Macbeth speaks of an suggestion that ' it makes my hair stand on end and ,my heart pound inside my chest?' What is this idea? (p.21) 
4. In an aside to the audience, Macbeth states that Duncan's intention to name Malcolm as his heir is a 'step' he must 'fall down or overleap ' [ I'm either going to step over him or give up.]. What does it mean? (p.27)
5. Macbeth then says: ' stars hide your fires, let not light see my dark and deep desires.' What does he mean by this? (p.29) 
6. Why does Lady Macbeth worry about Macbeth? Recall a quotation. 
7. Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth to look like the ' innocent flower' but be the 'serpent'(p.35) under it.  What does she mean by this metaphor? (p.35

Thunder - creates an ominous and frightening atmospehere, reflective of the evil nature of witches. 

Good and bad / right and wrong don't exist - they are subjective concepts. The witches introduce the idea that nothing is as it seems: ' Fair is foul, and foul is fair.' This theme is central to the play. 

First thoughts of commiting regicide. 

That if Duncan dies then Malcolm would become king - this is something that obstructs Macbeth's plan. ' 

That he intends to hide these evil thoughts. The use of rhyming couplets reflects the Witches' style of speech, thus hinting at evil plotting. 

' You are too full of the milk of human kindness to strike aggressively at your first opportunity.'

Hide the evil thoughts. Appearance versus Reality/Deception. 

QUESTION 1: Determine which adjectives can be used to describe the character of Lady Macbeth. Support each adjective with concrete examples from the text.

Question 1: ANSWER Determine which adjectives can be used to describe a character of Lady Macbeth. Support each adjective with concrete examples from the text. 

Manipulating: ' Will you take the crown you want so badly, or will you live as a coward, always saying " I can't" after you say "I want to"? You are like the poor cat in the old story.' (Act 1, scene vii)

Cruel: ' I have suckled a baby, and I know how sweet it is to love the baby at my breast. But even as the baby was smiling up at me, I would have plucked my nipple out of its mouth and smashed its brain out against a wall if I had sworn to do that the same way you have sworn to do this.' (Act 1, scene vii)

QUESTION 2. Based on Act 1, Scene 5 of Macbeth, describe what Lady Macbeth and the witches have in common.

Similarities Lady Macbeth & witches

The witches give the predictions, and Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to fulfill them by violent means. 

 Lady Macbeth and the witches both work to define and enforce gender and masculinity to control Macbeth.

Lady Macbeth calls upon the spirits in much the same way the witches do, to assist her in carrying out plans to kill Duncan.

QUESTION 4. Macbeth, Act 1, scene vii. Analyze/ summarize the soliloquy on page 41 in one sentence.
(Explain what the audience learns about Macbeth's thinking at this stage of the play).

Soliloquy scene 1, act 7

Macbeth is dealing with the internal conflict of whether to follow his ambition or to remain loyal.