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LESSON NINESlide2
YOUR STARTER: WHAT HAPPENS IN ACT 3, SCENE 4?
TODAY’S KEY QUESTIONS:
Can I read, understand and respond to texts?
Can I
consider the social and historical context of ‘Macbeth’ and discuss its significance?
Can I analyse the language in a scene and explain its significance?
MACBETH
BANQUO’S GHOST
Infer as much as you can from the picture.Slide3
COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS: ACT 3, SCENE 4
TODAY’S KEY QUESTIONS:
Can I read, understand and respond to texts?
Can I
consider the social and historical context of ‘Macbeth’ and discuss its significance?
Can I analyse the language in a scene and explain its significance?
Why are they having a banquet in the first place?
Where does Banquo’s ghost sit?
How does Macbeth react to seeing Banquo’s ghost? How is he feeling?
If you were a guest at the banquet, how would Macbeth make you feel?
How does Lady Macbeth react to her husband during this scene?
What does the Ghost look like? How do you know this? Slide4
YOUR TASK: EXPLODE YOUR QUOTATION
TODAY’S KEY QUESTIONS:
Can I read, understand and respond to texts?
Can I
consider the social and historical context of ‘Macbeth’ and discuss its significance?
Can I analyse the language in a scene and explain its significance?
‘Thy
bones are
marrowless
,
thy blood is
cold’.
On the screen, you will see a series of quotations from Act 3, Scene 4. Copy the quotations into your books and analyse as much as you can from them. This is a skill you will need across GCSE Literature and GCSE Language.In this quotation, Macbeth is describing Banquo’s ghost.
Contrast – blood is usually hot, therefore the ghost is dead. It’s a chilling sight.
Blood is associated with violence and murder, which shows that Macbeth cannot stop thinking about what he has done.
Macbeth is describing the ghost. He is feeling…
R
epetition of ‘b’ sounds creates the effect of…Slide5
YOUR TASK: EXPLODE YOUR QUOTATION
TODAY’S KEY QUESTIONS:
Can I read, understand and respond to texts?
Can I
consider the social and historical context of ‘Macbeth’ and discuss its significance?
Can I analyse the language in a scene and explain its significance?
‘Thou canst not say I did it. Never
shake thy gory locks at me.’
The imperative ‘never’ suggests Macbeth is feeling…
‘Thou canst not say I did it.’ – What does this tell us about Macbeth and his guilt?
Banquo’s ghost is shaking his head at Macbeth in this quotation. Perhaps Banquo is shaking his head because…
The adjective ‘gory’ suggests Banquo’s hair is…
This implies Macbeth is haunted by the violence of Banquo’s murder.
In this quotation, Macbeth is addressing Banquo’s Ghost directly.Slide6
YOUR TASK: EXPLODE YOUR QUOTATION
TODAY’S KEY QUESTIONS:
Can I read, understand and respond to texts?
Can I
consider the social and historical context of ‘Macbeth’ and discuss its significance?
Can I analyse the language in a scene and explain its significance?
‘Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that
Which might appal the devil.’
How do you think an audience would react to seeing Banquo’s ghost?
What is Macbeth’s state of mind here?
Macbeth acknowledges that he is a ‘bold man’, saying that he is … to look upon Banquo’s ghost.
Connotations of the devil include…
The fact that Banquo’s ghost might ‘appal the devil’ suggests that what Macbeth is seeing is…
In this quotation, Lady Macbeth has just asked her husband whether he is a man.Slide7
YOUR TASK: EXPLODE YOUR QUOTATION
TODAY’S KEY QUESTIONS:
Can I read, understand and respond to texts?
Can I
consider the social and historical context of ‘Macbeth’ and discuss its significance?
Can I analyse the language in a scene and explain its significance?
‘Thou hast no speculation in those eyes
Which thou dost glare with.’
In this quotation, Macbeth is addressing Banquo’s ghost directly.
Try this quotation without any prompts.
*speculation - sight
What are the connotations of ‘glare’? How is Banquo’s ghost staring at Macbeth?
What is Macbeth saying here?Slide8
YOUR TASK: EXPLODE YOUR QUOTATION
TODAY’S KEY QUESTIONS:
Can I read, understand and respond to texts?
Can I
consider the social and historical context of ‘Macbeth’ and discuss its significance?
Can I analyse the language in a scene and explain its significance?
‘Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
Shall never tremble.’
In this quotation, Macbeth is asking Banquo’s ghost to take on any form but the bloody corpse he is.
Why does Macbeth want Banquo to take another form? What does this suggest about his guilt?
Macbeth says he has ‘firm nerves’ but is this really the case?Slide9
FURTHER ANALYSIS
TODAY’S KEY QUESTIONS:
Can I read, understand and respond to texts?
Can I
consider the social and historical context of ‘Macbeth’ and discuss its significance?
Can I analyse the language in a scene and explain its significance?
How does Macbeth act as a leader and impose order at the start of this scene? How does Macbeth’s behaviour reflect his wife’s previous act as the perfect hostess?
Banquo’s ghost was played by an actor. Macbeth doesn’t see him at first.
What
is the effect?
Why does Macbeth compare Banquo and
Fleance
to snakes?
When
have snakes / serpents been referred to before?
In Act 1,
Scene 7, Macbeth
said
‘False face must hide what the false heart
doth know
’
How
good is he at demonstrating that? Slide10
YOUR TASK
TODAY’S KEY QUESTIONS:
Can I read, understand and respond to texts?
Can I
consider the social and historical context of ‘Macbeth’ and discuss its significance?
Can I analyse the language in a scene and explain its significance?
When Macbeth sees the ghost, it reveals lots of things about how he is feeling, or his state of mind
.
Draw a grid
.
Decide on 4 different emotions or feelings you think Macbeth has in this scene. Write these in the
FIRST
column.
Then find a quotation from Act 3, Scene 4 to back up each feeling in your SECOND column.
Explain how your quotation matches your point – what does it mean? Is there any interesting language you can pick out? Write this in your
THIRD
column.
Add
an extra row
!
Did
you think about Macbeth’s feelings before he even sees the ghost
?
“But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in too saucy doubts and fears”
p.65Slide11
Does
Macbeth's apparent
insanity in Act 3, Scene 4
render him a more sympathetic character or is this his punishment for his 'vaulting ambition that
o'erleaps
itself'?
TO FINISH: DISCUSS
TODAY’S KEY QUESTIONS:
Can I read, understand and respond to texts?
Can I
consider the social and historical context of ‘Macbeth’ and discuss its significance?Can I analyse the language in a scene and explain its significance?Slide12Slide13
RESOURCESSlide14
FURTHER ANALYSIS
TODAY’S KEY QUESTIONS:
Can I read, understand and respond to texts?
Can I
consider the social and historical context of ‘Macbeth’ and discuss its significance?
Can I analyse the language in a scene and explain its significance?
How does Macbeth act as a leader and impose order at the start of this scene? How does Macbeth’s behaviour reflect his wife’s previous act as the perfect hostess?
Banquo’s ghost was played by an actor. Macbeth doesn’t see him at first.
What
is the effect?
How does the structure of the dialogue and Macbeth’s line length build tension?
What does the
disorder
at the end of this scene symbolise to the audience?Slide15
Macbeth’s state of mind – emotion/feeling.
Quotation which
supports this emotion.
Explain how your quotation
shows this emotion.
Banquo
is shaking his head at Macbeth, showing that he blames him for his death. Macbeth is imagining this, so he is feeling guilty for his friend’s death.
FEAR
SUSPICION
Banquo’s ghostSlide16
Macbeth’s state of mind – emotion/feeling.
Quotation which
supports this emotion.
Explain how your quotation
shows this emotion.
Banquo’s ghost