Tallia Adam Mikylla Cleo Scene Summary Macbeth expresses his concern about the murder towards Lady Macbeth Lady Macbeth starts to question Macbeths manliness and basically calls him a coward ID: 579503
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Act1 Scene 7
Tallia, Adam, Mikylla, CleoSlide2
Scene Summary
Macbeth
expresses
his concern about the murder towards Lady Macbeth.Lady Macbeth starts to question Macbeth’s manliness and basically calls him a coward.Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to follow through with the murder.Slide3
Scene Purpose
Theme of Ambition
Macbeth
: “I have no spur to pick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition
, which overlaps itself” (I.vii.25-27).Slide4
Scene Purpose
Theme of Appearances versus
Reality
Macbeth: “False face must hide what the false heart doth know” (I.vii.92).Slide5
Scene Purpose
Theme of Manliness Lady
Macbeth: “And, to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the
man” (I.vii.55, 56).Slide6
Scene Purpose
Sets up plot developmentRising action
They plan to murder Duncan. In some sense, it’s a turning point. They would start to open the door to a dark and sinful world. Slide7
Scene Purpose
Lady Macbeth’s character
…Stronger, more ruthless, and more ambitious than Macbeth. Even she would dare to smash the baby’s brains out(I.vii.63).
…She is a masculinity soul inhabiting a female body(I.vii.80-82).Slide8
Scene Purpose
Lady Macbeth’s character
Manipulates her husband by questioning his manhood.
…Women can be as ambitious as cruel as men, in contrast to Macbeth that he is less than a man.Also, it foreshadows her insanity afterward…Slide9
How does the scene work?
It uses
soliloquy…
Imagery
made by repetition of words “if”, “were”, “done” prove it’s his train of thought.Slide10
How does the scene work?
Personification
“
Pity
as a baby” symbolizes helplessness; Pity as an angel symbolizes innocence.Macbeth:“ The deep damnation of his taking off; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven’s cherubin horsed; Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.”(I.vii.20-25)Slide11
How does the scene work?
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Imagery
Blood comes to symbolize their guilt.
“bloody instructions”(I.vii.9).Macbeth:“When we have mark’d with blood those sleepy two”(I.vii.83).Slide12
How does the scene work?
Macbeth: “We still have judgment here; that we but teach bloody instructions, which being taught return to plague the inventor”(I.vii.8-10).
It foreshadows
the way that his deeds will eventually come back to haunt him.Slide13
How does the scene work?
Imagery: Darkness
We hear of
“bloody instructions” (I.vii.9) and a “poisoned chalice”(I.vii.11), It suggests that Macbeth is aware of how the murder would open the door to a
dark and sinful world.Slide14
~Amazing Modern English Translating of Act1, Scene7~
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