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Macbeth

Year 8

Workbook

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WEEK ONE:

Act One Scene Five

Task 1: Highlight any of the speech that demonstrates Lady Macbeth’s evil

nature and intentions. (Translation on next page for support) Task 2: Annotate any language that is being used to present Lady Macbeth as

evil (Language list to identify on next page).

ORIGINAL TEXT:

LADY MACBETH

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 murd'ring 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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Task 3: To what extent does Lady Macbeth reflect the role of women in

Jacobean society? How would a Jacobean audience react to her?

TRANSLATED SPEECH:

So the messenger is short of breath, like a hoarse raven, as he announces Duncan’s entrance into

my fortress, where he will die. Come, you spirits that assist murderous thoughts, make me less like

a woman and more like a man, and fill me from head to toe with deadly cruelty! Thicken my blood

and clog up my veins so I won’t feel remorse, so that no human compassion can stop my evil plan

or prevent me from accomplishing it! Come to my female breast and turn my mother’s milk into

poisonous acid, you murdering demons, wherever you hide, invisible and waiting to do evil! Come,

thick night, and cover the world in the darkest smoke of hell, so that my sharp knife can’t see the

wound it cuts open, and so heaven can’t peep through the darkness and cry, “No! Stop!”

Language to identify:

• Pronouns

• Evil/ supernatural imagery

• Imperative verbs

• Metaphor

• Juxtaposition

• Alliteration

• Word choices (adjectives, verbs, adverbs etc.)

Women in the Jacobean times:

• Devoted to being a woman. Embrace womanhood.

• Against violence

• No influence over their husbands

• Care giver

• Less powerful than their husbands

Write your answer here:

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Act Two Scene One Macbeth has reached the point where he must decide whether he will murder King Duncan or not. Remember Lady Macbeth’s attempts to persuade him. What should he do? List the reasons he should kill Duncan or not kill the King in the table below.

Next tasks:

1. ❖ Put the reasons in order of priority.

2. ❖ Write a paragraph persuading Macbeth either to kill or not to kill Duncan

3. ❖ Review how Lady Macbeth has tried to influence her husband.

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Task 3

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Write a paragraph to explain why you think Macbeth decides to kill Duncan. Before you write think about the following:

• Is he really evil?

• Can he tell the difference between right and wrong?

• Is he ambitious?

• Is he under the power of the witches and / or his wife?

• Is he aware of the seriousness and implications of what he is doing?

• Is he acting on the spur of the moment?

Write your answer here:

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WEEK TWO How is Macbeth presented during Act Two Scene One? Answer using the structure strip below. Use the sentence stems provided to develop a PETAL paragraph on Macbeth. (Use notes from last week)

POINT:

Make a point relating to the question.

‘Macbeth is presented as….’

EVIDENCE:

Back up your point with a quote from the text.

‘This is seen in the quote ‘_______________’.’

TERMINOLOGY:

Use subject terms (word class/ techniques)

‘The use of the …..

ANALYSIS:

Continue by analysing the effect of the terminology.

…. suggests that …

… implies that….

…. highlights...

LINK:

Make sure you link back your original point and the question

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Creative Writing

Create a descriptive piece of writing to describe Macbeth’s banquet hall. Use

the image to stimulate ideas (but you can use your imagination). Make sure

to use creative writing techniques

Success criteria:

1. Use the 5 senses

2. Use ambitious vocabulary

3. Have a range of sentence forms and starters

4. Use a range of language techniques (see table below)

Red tier Yellow Tier Green Tier Simile Alliteration Repetition

Personification Hyperbole Metaphor

Juxtaposition Anaphora Pathetic Fallacy

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Write your answer here:

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WEEK THREE

Act Two Scene Two This is a scene between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, in which Macbeth has just killed Duncan. He returns with bloody hands to his wife. Lady Macbeth takes control of her frantic husband by taking the dagger and planting on the guards to frame them. Task 1: Imagine you are putting on this scene as a play. Annotate the scene with directorial decisions as to how it should be performed (like you did with the first witches’ scene). You can annotate:

• Stage directions

• Voice/ volume/ tone of the lines

• Movements and actions

• Lighting and music effects

• Props and costume

Enter MACBETH, with bloody daggers

My husband! MACBETH I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise?

LADY MACBETH I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry. Did not you speak? MACBETH When?

LADY MACBETH Now. MACBETH As I descended?

LADY MACBETH Ay.

MACBETH Hark! Who lies i' th' second chamber? LADY MACBETH Donalbain.

MACBETH

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(looking at his hands) This is a sorry sight. LADY MACBETH A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.

MACBETH There’s one did laugh in ’s sleep, and one cried. “Murder!” That they did wake each other. I stood and heard them. But they did say their prayers, and addressed them Again to sleep.

LADY MACBETH There are two lodged together.

MACBETH One cried, “God bless us!” and “Amen” the other, As they had seen me with these hangman’s hands. List'ning their fear I could not say “Amen,” When they did say “God bless us!”

LADY MACBETH Consider it not so deeply.

MACBETH But wherefore could not I pronounce “Amen”? I had most need of blessing, and “Amen” Stuck in my throat.

LADY MACBETH These deeds must not be thought After these ways. So, it will make us mad.

MACBETH Methought I heard a voice cry, “Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep”—the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast.

LADY MACBETH What do you mean? MACBETH Still it cried, “Sleep no more!” to all the house. “Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more.”

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LADY MACBETH Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane, You do unbend your noble strength to think So brainsickly of things. Go get some water, And wash this filthy witness from your hand. Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must lie there. Go carry them and smear The sleepy grooms with blood.

MACBETH I’ll go no more: I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on ’t again I dare not.

LADY MACBETH Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures. 'Tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I’ll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt. Exit

Task 2: Create a stage design for a production of Macbeth. Draw the sketch of

the stage, scenery, levels and audience positioning (etc.)

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Act Four Scene One

Macbeth goes back to visit the witches and receives 3 new predictions.

Task 1: Complete the table to think about what will come of each prediction

Quote/ prediction

FIRST APPARITION

Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff.

Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough.

SECOND APPARITION

Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn

The power of man, for none of woman born

Shall harm Macbeth.

THIRD APPARIATION

Macbeth shall never vanquished be until

Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill

Shall come against him.

What is the apparition telling Macbeth?

How will Macbeth react to this prediction?

How might it influence Macbeth’s decisions going forward?

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Additional resources:

If you can get access to the internet at any point during the closure, here are a

few websites that might help with the understanding of the play (you do not

need these to complete this work but it may be beneficial):

https://www.rsc.org.uk/shakespeare-learning-zone/macbeth/story/timeline

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zc69wxs

https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/macbeth/

YouTube – animated versions of the play/ plot summaries/ analysis videos.

https://www.rsc.org.uk/shakespeare-learning-zone/macbeth/story/timelinehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zc69wxshttps://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/macbeth/