YOUR TASK ACT 3 SCENE 5 TODAYS 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 ID: 708356
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LESSON TENSlide2
YOUR STARTER
What will happen in Act 4, Scene 1? Infer what you can from the images. What themes/ideas do you think the scene will explore?Slide3
YOUR TASK: ACT 3, SCENE 5
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?
HECATE
Find a quotation which supports the idea that Hecate is angry with the three witches for giving Macbeth prophecies.
Explain WHY Hecate is angry with the witches for giving Macbeth the three prophecies
Why does Hecate not like Macbeth? Find a quotation where she lists the characteristics she disapproves of.
What does Hecate instruct the witches to do?
What does she say Macbeth will do?
WHO IS SHE?Slide4
YOUR TASK: ACT 3, SCENE 5
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?
HECATE
Some scholars believe that this scene wasn’t actually written by Shakespeare and added in later.
It is frequently missed out of productions. Why do you think this is?
WHO IS SHE?Slide5
LET’S REWIND – THE END OF 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?
What did you notice about Macbeth?
MACBETH’S LINES
WHAT THIS TELLS US ABOUT HIM
I am bent to know…
He is determined and making
his own decisions.
By the worst
means the worse.
He will use any method
to find out his future.
For mine own good
All causes shall give
way.
He sees himself as more important than
anything else.
I am in blood
Stepped
in so far, that, should I wade no more...
He’s so deep in blood (killing) now, that there’s no point in stopping.
Returning were as
tedious
as go o’er
The word
suggests that it is just too much effort.Slide6
YOUR TASK: ACT 4, SCENE 1
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?
In this scene, Macbeth returns to the witches to find out more of his fate.
By sending him back to the witches, this time of his own free will, Shakespeare is showing that Macbeth is actively encouraging his evil side
...
Before we read the scene, let’s consider how Macbeth is speaking to the witches. What do his words reveal about his character?
I conjure you…
Answer me to do what I ask you.
Call ‘
em
Tell me, thou unknown power…
Tell me… shall Banquo’s issue ever reign?
I will be satisfied?
Let me know…Slide7
What does Macbeth find out?
What
is the significance of the apparition? (Consider the imagery used to present it)
How does Macbeth react?
Key Words/Quotations
The first spirit tells him that…
The second spirit
tells him that…
The third
spirit tells him that…
AS WE READ, COMPLETE THE TABLE…
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?Slide8
CONSIDER THIS
In Shakespeare’s day, historians thought that James I was descended from Banquo.
James was King of Scotland
and
England (‘
two
-fold balls’ – the orbs of the crown jewels – 2 showing the 2 countries) and he ruled over
three
kingdoms – Scotland, England and Ireland (‘
treble
sceptres’). There are clear links between James and the Kings in this scene.
The
eighth
King represents James’s ancestors. He carries the ‘glass’ (mirror) showing the future of many Kings from the same family: this is where James fits in.
Did you know? Our current Queen is a descendant of James I, so they end up ruling for hundreds of years!
“And yet the eighth appears, who bears a glass/Which shows me many more. And some I see,/That two-fold balls and treble sceptres carry.”Slide9
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?
Find quotations for each of the following points. Write them in your book.
Macbeth is being arrogant.
Macbeth is afraid of what he has seen.
Macbeth thinks that there is nothing to worry about.
The witches are impatient with Macbeth.Slide10
Remember that you already have the statement
or point written.
You then should choose
one quotation from each of the categories that you have just explored, and then write it as your sub-title.
We are focusing today on analysis
. To help you I have phrased the ideas as questions.
For each quotation you need to consider:
What is happening in the quotation/how it
supports your point?
What
language has been used? What does it suggest? How does the language make
you
feel (intended effect)?
Why has Shakespeare included it in his
play How could it link to the overriding message about Macbeth?
I have an example on the next slide for you…Slide11
AN EXAMPLE
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 appears to display signs of intense arrogance in the scen
e.
He demands from the witches: “
But
one word more –
”
Macbeth flaunts his hubristic nature when he commands the witches to stay and listen to ‘one word more.’ His greed
wants the apparitions to tell him more, even though they have already told him
about his fate. Macbeth
uses the connective ‘but’ to show the audience that he is not happy
with these prophecies that seem to discuss the impossible. Shakespeare may want to ensure
that the
audiences’ negative
opinion of Macbeth continues, and to highlight the chaos and devastation that occurs as a consequence of those who are hungry for even more power.
‘But one word more-’Slide12
TO FINISH: HIGHLIGHT ALL THE REFERENCES TO CHAOS IN ACT 4, SCENE 1. WHAT DOES THIS SUGGEST ABOUT THE WORLD AND ATMOSPHERE OF HE PLAY AT THIS POINT?
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?
CHAOS
‘Though you untie the winds and let them fight…’
Why include so many references to chaos in this scene? What is Shakespeare trying to achieve here?
‘Though castles topple on their warders’ heads…’Slide13Slide14
RESOURCESSlide15
What does Macbeth find out?
What
is the significance of the apparition? (Consider the imagery used to present it)
How does Macbeth react?
Key Words/Quotations
The first spirit tells him that…
The second spirit
tells him that…
The third
spirit tells him that…Slide16
What does Macbeth find out?
What does the apparition look like? Why do you think it
looks this way?
How does Macbeth react?
Key Words/Quotations
The first spirit tells him that
he should beware Macduff, the Thane of Fife.
‘Beware Macduff! Beware
the Thane of Fife’ – The instruction to ‘beware’ suggests…
The second spirit
tells him that no one who was born of a woman can harm Macbeth.
Macbeth
begins to question why he should fear Macduff because…
Macbeth decides to…
The third
spirit tells him that Macbeth will never be defeated until Great
Birnam
wood moves to high Dunsinane Hill.