Macbeth Revise Plot and Key Quotes

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Macbeth by WilliamMacbeth by William

ShakespeareShakespeareObjective

Revise the early part of the plot

Learn meaning of key quotes that

show how Lady Macbeth is determined

to influence her husband and do

whatever it takes to get what she

wants.


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How might Macbeth be feelingimmediately after his victory


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In the first scenes of the play the

audience learn that Macbeth is

trusted, respected and has a great

reputation as a brave and fearsome

warrior


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He has a high status

position in Scottish society

because he is a close

relative of Duncan King of

Scotland.


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What do others sayWhat do others sayabout Macbeth?about Macbeth?


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Some quotes...

For brave Macbeth, (well hedeserves that name)

O valiant cousin, worthygentleman, noble Macbeth

Worthiest cousin/ Worthygentleman


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How did this event change his attitude to the witches?

How was Macbeths mind corrupted after this event?

Macbeth is rewarded with the

title of the traitor Thane ofCawdor

Was this success achieved in a fair manner?


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Macbeth immediately informs his wife

about what happened? What does thisaction reveal about their relationship?

How is LM first introduced

(Reading a letter from her husband)

(Act 1 Scene 5) She puts the letter down

and speaks her thoughts:


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Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt beWhat thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature;

It is too full o' the 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'ldst 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 valour of my tongue


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Yet I do fear thy nature it is too

full o th milk of human kindnessmeans

AS

he hates her husband

B She adores her husband

C She fears her husband is too nice

D She thinks her husband smells


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I may pour my spirits in thine ear;

She is determined to use all her persuasiveskills upon him, this shows

A She is afraid of her husband

B She can manipulate her husband

C She wants to be Queen

D She struggles to influence him


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Look up theword chastice


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Look up theword valor


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Chastise with the valor of my

tongue which meaning is wrong

A She will use brave talk on him

B She will not back down

C She will not be soft on him

D She will bite her tongue and say nothing


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Lady Macbeth feels she needs help

from a higher power; she turns to thepowers of darkness:

Read the unsex me soliloquy

(Act 1 Scene 5)


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The raven himself is hoarse

That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan

Under my battlements. Come, you spirits

That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,

And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full

Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;

Stop up the access and passage to remorse,

That no compunctious visitings of nature

Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between

The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,

And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,

Wherever in your sightless substances

You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,

And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,

That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,

To cry 'Hold, hold!'


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The ravencroaks the fatal entrance

of Duncan under my battlements

A raven was believed to be a commonwitchs familiar

King Duncan will soon arrive at hercastle

What does the word fatal mean andwhat does this word show about LadyMacbeth?


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Come, you spirits that tend on

mortal thoughts, unsex me here

Lady Macbeth is turning her back

on God and religion because she ispraying to evil spirits to help her in

the task ahead and take away any

softness or gentle femininity


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fill me from the crown to the toe

topful of direst cruelty

What is Lady Macbeth pleading

for here??

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Make thick my blood

She asks the evil spirits to stop the flow of

menstrual blood

Again, she is asking for all her femininity to

be removed

She feels limited by her gender


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Stop up the access and passage to

remorse

What is remorse?

What is Lady Macbeth asking for here?

Write some key words to describe what you

think of her


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Come to my womans breast and

take my milk for gall

These words create a shocking image.What do you think it means?

Elizabethan medical ideas:

There are four humours (blood, yellow bile,black bile, and phlegm) gall comes from an

excess of yellow bile. An imbalance ofyellow bile in the body turns one ruthlessand insolent. Gall can mean poison.


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Come, thick night And pall thee in

the thickest smoke of hell

Lady Macbeth is personifying the night and

asking for it to help them to get away with

the murder

She is praying for the darkest, foggiest,

gloomiest night possible so that they wont

be seen


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That my keen knife see not the

wound it makes

She doesnt want to see any blood and gore

that might give her nightmares or make her

not be able to see it through. She is perhapsallocating this grim task to her husband.


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Nor heaven peep through the

blanket of the dark to cry Hold,

hold!

She hopes that God and the powers of good

will not ruin their plans


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Lady Macbeth - Word wall

Use the synonym feature (right hand click on the

word) to find more good vocab

Manipulative

Cunning, Conniving, Sly, secretive

Ruthless

Ambitious

Aggressive

Determined

Callous

Control freak


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Macbeth then arrives home and

greets his wife with the wordsMy dearest love ...

Post It Task ..

What does this suggest

about their relation ship?


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A They are in love

B They hug and kissC They are close and affectionate


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your face, my Thane, is as a book

Lady Macbeth is being c----cal of her

husband

This quote suggests that she thinks Macbeth

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Is Lady Macbeth a submissive, obedient

wife who would not dare to challenge herhusband?


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Look like the innocent flower,

But be the serpent under it Lady Macbeth is giving a----- to her

husband.

In Christianity, what is the serpent?

In your own words explain what advice

Lady Macbeth is giving to her husband.

Does Macbeth listen to and respect what shehas to say?

What do you think about their relationship?


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put this nights great business into

my dispatch.Leave all the rest tome

What do we learn about the relationship between

husband and wife here?


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Act 1 scene 7


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Macbeth, when alone, decides not to

kill the King because.

The king trusts him and as a guest in his home

Macbeth should be protecting him not plotting

to murder him

They are related, he has always been loyal

The King has been good to him and rewarded

him


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He is afraid of being caught and of the

possible consequences. Duncan has been a good King and is much

loved and respected

Murder of ones King is the worst kind ofcrime and is a terrible sin against God

People think well of him right now and he

is enjoying the golden opinions from all

sorts of people. He doesnt want to cast

them aside so soon.


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Macbeth tries to be decisive and take

control. He tells his wife we shall

proceed no further in this business. LM

is not happy!

Read Act 1 scene 7 Line 35

(from was the hope

drunk..) to end of scene


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Was the hope drunk

Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since?

And wakes it now, to look so green and pale

At what it did so freely? From this time

Such I account thy love. Art thou afeardTo be the same in thine own act and valour

As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that

Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,

And live a coward in thine own esteem,

Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,'

Like the poor cat i' the adage?

MACBETH

Prithee, peace:

I dare do all that may become a man;

Who dares do more is none.


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LADYMACBETH

What beast was't, then,

That made you break this enterprise to me?When you durst do it, then you were a man;

And, to be more than what you were, you would

Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place

Did then adhere, and yet you would make both:

They have made themselves, and that their fitness now

Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know

How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:I would, while it was smiling in my face,

Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,

And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you

Have done to this.

MACBETH

If we should fail?

LADYMACBETH

We fail!

But screw your courage to the sticking-place,

And we'll not fail.


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Macbeth is shamed by LM into

going ahead with the murder ofKing Duncan

Lady Macbeth is furious, hertirade/invective shows she knows

exactly how to use words to

embarrass her husband by callinghim a coward and questioning his

masculinity.


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Task

Highlight and annotate the insults and

persuasive arguments Lady Macbeth uses

against her husband in order to shame him

into going ahead with the murder. Why do you think she uses the shocking

image of violence against a baby?

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