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Macbeth

Learning ObjectiveRead and understand Act 1 Scene 5 and 6.Begin to understand the character of Lady Macbeth.Slide2

Starter

Complete an A – Z of ‘Macbeth’ so far.Slide3

Act 1 Scene 5Read the opening of Act 1 Scene 5 carefully. Afterwards we will be thinking about and discussing the following:

What are your first thoughts of Lady Macbeth?Why do you think that way?Extension – who do you think should play her on stage/screen?Slide4

Macbeth’s letter to Lady Macbeth

LADY MACBETH (reading) “They met me in the day of success, and I have learned by the perfectest

report they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desire to question them further, they made themselves air, into which they vanished. Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it came missives from the king, who all-hailed me 'Thane of Cawdor,' by which title, before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred me to the coming on of time with 'Hail, king that shalt be!' This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou

might’st

not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant of what greatness is promised thee. Lay it to thy heart, and farewell.”

Glamis

thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be

What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature;

It is too full o'

th

' milk of human kindness

To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great,

Art not without ambition, but without

The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly,

That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false,

And yet wouldst wrongly win.

Thou'ld’st

have, great

Glamis

,

That which cries, “Thus thou must do,” if thou have it,

And that which rather thou dost fear to do,

Than

wishest

should be undone.

Hie

thee hither,

That I may pour my spirits in thine ear

And chastise with the valor of my tongue

All that impedes thee from the golden round,

Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem

To have thee crowned withal.Slide5

Who should play Lady M on stage/screen?Slide6

Finish Act 1 Scene 5 then…

In groups of six split into pairs take a section of Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy:Come, you spirits…Come to my woman’s breast…

Come, thick night…

Each pairing needs a director and an actor. Decide how to perform your section and go for it!

Let’s see some.

NB. Some people think that Shakespeare split this soliloquy into three parts deliberately, so that the actor playing Lady Macbeth could say essentially the same thing to the three different sections on the audience (the right, the centre and the left)Slide7

Macbeth

Learning ObjectiveRead and understand Act 1 Scene 5 and 6.Begin to understand the character of Lady Macbeth.

Still working on this one.Slide8

Act 1 Scene 5 Key termsDuplicity

Synonyms for this word are: deceitfulness,, deviousness, two-facedness, falseness, fraudulence,

swindling

, cheating,

skulduggery, unfairness

,

unjustness.

Write your own definition

.

Extended metaphor

When a single metaphor is used at length throughout a text – in our case a play.

Dramatic irony

Events in the speeches or situations

of a drama

that are understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.Slide9

Act 1 Scene 6

LADY MACBETH      O, neverShall sun that morrow see!Your face, my thane, is as a book where menMay read strange matters. To beguile the time,

Look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye,

Your hand, your tongue. Look like

th

' innocent flower,

But be the serpent under ’t. He that’s coming

Must be provided for; and you shall put

This night’s great business into my dispatch,

Which shall to all our nights and days to come

Give solely sovereign sway and

masterdom

.

How does Lady Macbeth represent the duplicity and dramatic irony of this scene in this soliloquy

?Slide10

Plenary. Quote check.Do you know five quotes from ‘Macbeth’ so far?

Test your neighbour.Slide11

HomeworkMust: Pick some of the images from Lady Macbeth’s ‘unsex me’ soliloquy and represent them in a similar way to last lesson; draw a picture and mind map all the possible connotations.

Should: Write a sentence: this image represents Lady Macbeth as... because… Shakespeare has done this at this point in the play because…Could: Repeat with a second imageSlide12

Macbeth

Learning ObjectiveRead and understand Act 1 Scene 5 and 6.Begin to understand the character of Lady Macbeth.