Formative assessment: Copy the question above into your formative assessment book and then write your response to the question, using the grid above to help you, underneath. Learning episode 7 Do it now task Recap questions: Identify three things you learnt about witches during Shakespeare’s time in the last learning episode. Where are the witches and what is the weather doing? Who are they looking to meet when war is over and where will they meet him? What is pathetic fallacy? What are rhyming couplets? What is a paradox? ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________
How has Shakespeare presented the character of Macbeth at the start of the play? The captain Duncan Ross Quotation What do we learn from the quotation and what language technique has been used? How is the use of this word / technique meant to affect our thoughts on Macbeth? Quotation What do we learn from the quotation and what language technique has been used? How is the use of this word / technique meant to affect our thoughts on Macbeth? Quotation What do we learn from the quotation and what language technique has been used? How is the use of this word / technique meant to affect our thoughts on Macbeth?
ROSS 91 The king hath happily received, Macbeth, 92 the news of thy success, and when he reads 93 thy personal venture in the rebels’ fight, 94 his wonders and praise do contend 95 which should be thine or his. Silenced with that, 96 in viewing o’er the rest o’ the selfsame day, 97 he finds thee in the stout Norweyan ranks, 98 nothing afeard of what thyself didst make, 99 strange images of death. As thick as tale 100 can post with post, and every one did bear 101 thy praises in his kingdom’s great defense, 102 and poured them down before him. ANGUS 103 We are sent 104 to give thee from our royal master thanks, 105 only to herald thee into his sight, 106 not pay thee. ROSS 107 And, for an earnest of a greater honour, 108 he bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor: 109 in which addition, hail, most worthy thane, 110 for it is thine. BANQUO 111 What, can the devil speak true? MACBETH 112 The thane of Cawdor lives. Why do you dress me 113 in borrowed robes? ANGUS 114 Who was the thane lives yet, 115 but under heavy judgement bears that life 116 which he deserves to lose. Whether he was combined 117 with those of Norway, or did line the rebel 118 with hidden help and vantage, or that with both 119 he laboured in his country’s wrack, I know not; 120 but treasons capital, confessed and proved, 121 have overthrown him. MACBETH
53 So humbly take my leave. DUNCAN 54 My worthy Cawdor! MACBETH 55 (Aside) The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step 56 On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap 57 For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; 58 Let not light see my black and deep desires: 59 The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be, 60 Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. Exit DUNCAN 61 True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant, 62 And in his commendations I am fed; 63 It is a banquet to me. Let’s after him, 64 Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome: 65 It is a peerless kinsman. Flourish. Exeunt. Pen to paper Complete the following chart, making a note on the techniques and devices used in this scene and what is revealed as a result about the relationship between King Duncan and Macbeth and King Duncan and Banquo. Technique Quotation Analysis Foreshadowing A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story To throw away the dearest thing he owed, / As ‘twere a careless trifle. Focus = relationship between King Duncan and Macbeth
Dramatic irony A situation, or the irony arising from a situation, in which the audience has a fuller knowledge of what is happening in a drama than a character does DUNCAN There’s not art To find the mind’s construction in the face: He was a gentleman on whom I built An absolute trust. Enter MACBETH, BANQUO, ROSS and ANGUS O worthiest cousin! Focus = relationship between King Duncan and Macbeth The service and the loyalty I owe, / In doing it, pays itself. Focus = relationship between King Duncan and Macbeth Anadiplosis The rhetorical repetition of the last word or words of one phrase or sentence at the beginning of the next. (and dramatic irony) Your highness’ part / Is to receive our duties; and our duties / Are to your throne and state children and servants Focus = relationship between King Duncan and Macbeth Metaphor A figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things. Macbeth: I have begun to plant thee, and will labour / To make thee full of growing. Banquo: There If I grow, / The harvest is your own. Focus = relationship between King Duncan and Banquo
New knowledge In today’s lesson, we are going to read Act One Scene Five. In this scene, we meet Lady Macbeth who receives news from Macbeth about recent events. Shakespeare uses a soliloquy to present Lady Macbeth’s response to Macbeth’s news. A soliloquy is a literary device used in drama in which the innermost thoughts of a character are voiced to him/herself. Extract Seven: Act One Scene 5 (Lady Macbeth) Enter LADY MACBETH, reading a letter LADY MACBETH 1 They met me in the day of success: and I have 2 Learned by the perfectest report, they have more in 3 Them than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desire 4 To question them further, they made themselves air, 5 Into which they vanished. Whiles I stood rapt in 6 The wonder of it, came missives from the king, who 7 All-hailed me Thane of Cawdor, by which title, 8 Before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred 9 Me to the coming on of time, with ‘Hail, king that 10 Shalt be!’ This have I thought good to deliver 11 Thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou 12 Mightiest not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being 13 Ignorant of what greatness is promised thee. Lay it 14 To thy heart, and farewell. 15 Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be 16 What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature; 17 It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness 18 To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; 19 Art not without ambition, but without 20 The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, 21 That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, 22 And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou’ldst have, great Glamis, 23 That which cries ‘Thus thou must do, if thou have it; 24 And that which rather thou dost fear to do 25 Than wishes should be undone.’ Hie thee hither, 26 That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; 27 And chastise with the valour of my tongue 28 All that impedes thee from the golden round,
27 God did not mean that Adam and Eve would drop down dead 28 the moment they ate the fruit from the tree. He meant that 29 in time they would die without His Spirit dwelling in them. 30 One day, Adam and Eve were gathering berries for dinner 31 when she head a silly voice behind her. “Has God told you 32 that you can eat the fruit from all the trees?” the voice 33 asked softly. Eve turned around to see a snake talking to her. 34 “God has told us we can eat all the fruit except for what grows 35 On The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil,” Eve told 36 the serpent. 37 “Oh come now, that’s silly! I hardly think such a lovely fruit 38 would do you any harm,” the serpent lied. “God knows 39 that if you eat from The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and 40 Evil you’ll become just like God, and will be able to decide for 41 yourself what is right and what is wrong.” 42 The woman looked at the fruit and thought how tasty it looked. 43 she thought how wonderful it would to be as wise and 44 powerful as God. She believed the serpent’s lie and ate the 45 fruit and also gave some to Adam, who was with her, and he 46 took a bit as well. 47 She felt a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach. She 48 fidgeted and wondered what was wrong with her. Suddenly 49 she realised that she was feeling guilty – she had disobeyed 50 God and knew she’d done something wrong. 51 As soon as they ate the fruit a change came over Adam and 52 Eve. They became unhappy and fearful of God. 53 Adam and Eve heard God calling them. Without thinking, 54 They dived into the bushes, but God knew where they were. 55 when God asked them if they had eaten from The Tree of the 56 Knowledge of Good and Evil that He had told them not to 57 touch, they blamed each other for their sins. 58 God was sad that Adam and Eve had disobeyed them. He 59 told them that they had to leave the Garden of Eve, “From 60 now on you’ll have to scratch a living from the soil. You’ll 61 need to make clothes and grow food. Nothing will come 62 easily – not even childbirth. And one day, you will die.”
New knowledge Let’s read Act 1 Scene 7 in which Macbeth reflects upon the decision that lies in front of him. Hautboys and torches. Enter a Sewer, and divers Servants with dishes and service, and pass over the stage. Then enter MACBETH MACBETH 1 If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well 2 It were done quickly: if the assassination 3 Could trammel up the consequence, and catch 4 With his surcease success; that but this blow 5 Might be the be-all and the end-all here, 6 But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, 7 We’ld jump the life to come. But in these cases 8 We still have judgement here; that we but teach 9 Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return 10 To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice 11 Commends the ingredients of our poison’d chalice 12 To our own lips. He’s here in double trust; 13 First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, 14 Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, 15 Who should against his murderer shut the door, 16 Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan 17 Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been 18 So clear in his great office, that his virtues 19 Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against 20 The deep damnation of his taking-off, 21 And pity, like a naked new-born babe, 22 Striding the blast, or heaven’s cherubim, horsed 23 Upon the sightless couriers of the air, 24 Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, 25 That tears shall down the wind. I have no spur 26 To prick the sides of my intent, but only 27 Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself 28 And falls on the other. Pen to paper