week 9: McB act 3+4/ selfstudy test

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Today

- MacBeth act 3+4

- MacBeth assignment

- Self-study: rep next week

MacBeth, so what happened?

• witches and prophecy
• Lady M and Mr M 
• Banquo
•  Malcom and McDuff (and Donalbain)

Act 1: we learn what the problem is

Act 2: McB starts messy things

Act 3: shit hits the fan

Act3 opens with Banquo's speech (see handout)

What does he say? 

How will McB respond? Remember the prophecy...?

Act 3 scene 4: Let's pretend everything is normal and have dinner....

Read along on your handout!

Theme: guilt and masculinity

• Why is Mr M so upset?
• What does Lady M say about being a man?
• And Mr. M?
•  "is this a dagger I see before me?"

... and then....

• Banquo's son Fleance escaped! 
• MacBeth is king, but is nervous
• Act 4: He visits the witches again: "Beware Macduff, none of women born Shall harm Macbeth, until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane Hill /Shall come against him"
• Time to add MacDuff to the kill list

Act4: consequences

New prophecy

McB kills Lady MacDuff and her children!

The scene moves to England where McB's enemies are at king Edward's court...

Remember how Lady M spoke to Mr M at the dinner table?

What does it mean to be a man? 

THEME ALERT: Masculinity

See also: Lady M's 'unsex me' in act 2

Next....

How will MacBeth deal with his new enemies? And his hallucinations? 

What about the new prophecy?

And Lady M, how is she doing? 

Final assignment is on classroom!

RTTI next week

- plurals- pronouns (their, mine, yours, his, they, who, whom, whose, which, what, this, those, etc....)

- some / any / something / anything / someone / anyone / somewhere / anywhere

- Adjective or adverb (-ly)

- much / many / few / little

- irregular verbs

- tenses (present, past, future --- perfect, simple, continuous ALL THE THINGS)