The Tragedy of Macbeth

Power, ambition, & betrayal

A glimpse at our characters…

A glimpse of our author…

Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To dig the dust

enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones,

And cursed be he that moves my bones.

Shakespeare’s Epitaph (whoop whoop)

Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon

Movie Hero

Line up alphabetically by the first initial of your favorite movie hero…go!Person A’s middle name begins with a letter that is earlier in the alphabet.

• Tragedy – drama in which a series of actions leads to the downfall of the tragic hero.

• Tragic Hero - high rank, tragic flaw/character defect that leads to downfall, suffers complete ruin or death, faces downfall with courage & dignity.

• Language – blank verse/unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter (iamb = 1 unstressed & 1 stressed) Iambic pentameter = u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ (see side board for trochaic tetrameter).

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble.

Person A, review the above information with Person B – go!

• Dramatic Irony – when the audience knows more than one or more of the characters – effect = builds suspense.

• Soliloquy – a speech given by a character alone on stage, used to reveal his or her private thoughts & feelings –effect – helps the audience understand a character’s motivation.

• Aside – a character’s remark, either to the audience or to another character, that no one else on stage is supposed to hear –

effect = lets audience in on character’s thoughts or secrets.

Person B, review the above information with Person A – go!

Why do people use rhetorical devices in their writing/speeches?

The characters are constantly trying to persuade themselves, each other, and the audience of the rightness of their cause.

As we read, look for rhetorical devices such as: repetition, parallelism, & rhetorical questions (also, look for

figurative language - similes, metaphors, personification, etc.).

For this Final Unit…

Reading Questions at the end of each Act.

Socratic Seminar Essential Question:

Are our actions determined primarily by fate, or by free will?

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Also, be prepared for Pop Quizzes! Pts. for Reading to Class as well!

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Setting: 11th century Scotland