Macbeth - this week's work

Tuesday: Students should be filling out and studying their REVIEW Guides for the FINAL

Wednesday: Macbeth FINAL (please find the FINAL in a separate folder under this one)

Friday: Students should pick a “personal goal” from MAP tests and create a presentation on it (this could be a slide show or video).

MACBETH REVIEW GUIDE

Things to know:

• List the five elements of tragedy
• List the five elements of a tragic hero
• Discuss Macbeth’s tragic flaw
• Discuss who wins in Macbeth and why?  Who is the hero?
• Define soliloquy and monologue and point to examples from Macbeth
• Outline the plot according to the six elements of plot: exposition, inciting event, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution (give at least three events for the rising and falling action)
• Identify the following characters and discuss they roles in the play (Who they are, What they do, Why the do what they do)

Macbeth                      Macduff                      The Porter

Lady Macbeth                        Lady Macduff             The Witches

Duncan                        Lennox                        The Doctor

Malcolm                      Ross                            The Bloody Captain

Donalbain                    Seyton                         Fleance

Banquo                        Menteith                     Siward

• Discuss and give examples of the following THEMES:

--Blind Ambition

--The Corruption of Power

--Appearance vs. Reality

--Superstition and how it affects human behavior

--Good vs. Evil

• Discuss the following symbols/motifs (what people and/or  ideas the represent and connect them to a theme)

--washing of hands                        --blood

--planting of seeds, things growing

--the atmosphere of Macbeth’s castle

--spells or chants and supernatural beings

--weather                                       --daggers

--spirits, scorpions, snakes and things in the mind

--birds and flying:

                  Eagles                                      Crows

                  Sparrows                                 Geese

                  Owl                                         Wren

                  Martlet

                  Falcon

• Identify the speaker and the significant of important and famous quotes from the following characters:

Witches, Apparitions, Banquo, Duncan, Macduff, Malcolm, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, The Bloody Captain, Lady Macduff, Ross

• Know and review your study questions for each Act (you should have done these for homework).  Some of these questions will be on the test.