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MACBETH
NAME:__________________________________________________________________Honors English II- Bennett
Packet Due November 3, 2010
250 points for a completed packet
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Study Guide Questions (40 points)
ACT I
1. As the play opens, from what events are Banquo and Macbeth returning?
2. What positions do they hold?
3. By what three titles do the witches greet Macbeth?
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4. What prophecy do the witches make to Banquo?
5. After the witches vanish, who comes to greet Macbeth and what message does he bring?
6. How does it happen that this honor can be bestowed upon Macbeth?
7. Who is named Prince of Cumberland?
8. How does Macbeth inform his wife about the things that have happened to him ?
What are THREE reasons does Macbeth give for NOT murdering the king?
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12. Why does he decide to murder the king despite his better judgment?
13. What is Lady Macbeth’s plan for murdering Duncan?
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ACT II
13. What gift does the king send to Lady Macbeth and why?
15. Who is Fleance?
16. What preparations for the murder does Lady Macbeth make?
17. Why doesn’t Lady Macbeth kill the king herself?
18. While Macbeth is murdering the king, where are the guards?
19. What does Macbeth think he hears a voice say?
20. Who says, A little water clears us of this deed ? What does this
mean ?
21. What is the purpose of the porter’s scene? How does he
provide humor?
22. Who discovers the murder?
23. What happens to the guards? How is this explained?
24. What happens to Lady Macbeth when she hears the news? Why ?
25. What happens to the King’s sons? Why ?
26. Why doesn’t Macduff go to Scone to see Macbeth crowned?
27. Who do Ross and Macduff suggest is suspected of murder ?
28. Who says? Explain the meaning:
Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleeve of care
The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s path,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course…
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ACT III
29. What are Banquo’s suspicions about Macbeth?
30. Why does Macbeth feel that Banquo’s death is necessary?
31. What reason does Macbeth give for NOT murdering Banquo himself?
32. What is the result of the attack on Banquo and Fleance?
33. Where is Macbeth when the murderers return?
34. As Macbeth goes to the head of the table, what does he see?
35. What do the guests see?
36. How does the banquet end?
37. Who does not attend the banquet and where is he?
38. Who is the King of England at this time?
ACT IV
39. What are the witches doing as the act begins?
40. What is meant by something wicked this way comes?
41. What is the first apparition and what does it say?
42. What is the second apparition and what is the message?
43. What is the third apparition and what is the prophecy?
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44. What is the other question Macbeth asks?
45. After the apparition, what are we led to believe from the answer?
46. How does Lady Macduff feel about her husband’s leaving?
47. What does Ross think about Macduff’s actions?
48. Is Lady Macduff warned of danger? What is the result?
49. Who is Macduff talking to when he discovers the news of the death of his family?
50. What vow does Macduff make?
ACT V
51. How does Act V open ?
52. As Lady Macbeth walks in her sleep, what is she doing?
53. What three people are leading the English power against Macbeth?
54. Is Macbeth concerned about his wife’s illness?
55. Explain how the prophecy of Birnam Woods comes true:
56. What happens to Lady Macbeth and how do we learn about this?
57. When Macbeth meets Macduff in combat, how does the second prophesy come true?
58. To whom does Macduff present Macbeth’s head?
59. Who then becomes King of Scotland? What does he proclaim?
60. Do Banquo’s children become kings as promised by the witches in the first meeting?
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Character: 18 points
List the characteristic in the column, then use a quote as evidence from the play as support.
Place the quote in the “quote call-out” and note which act, scene, line this quote is taken.
Characteristics of Macbeth
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Characteristics of Lady Macbeth
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Vocabulary (50 points)
Choose 5 words from each act. For each word, provide the context (Who says? When?).
Provide a definition for the word in this context.
Act I: brandished, plight, hurlyburly, minion, lavish, runnion, corporal, prophetic, surmise, fantastical, harbinger, plenteous,
rapt, missives, metaphysical, remorse, beguile, sovereign, procreant, martlet, purveyor, trammel, chamberlains, limbeck
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Act II: husbandry, augment, possets, raveled, incarnadine, infirm, equivocator, carousing, clamored, sacrilegious,
countenance, scruples, malice, consort, warrant, suborned, benison
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Act III: indissoluble, bestowed, dauntless, rebuked, beggared, bounteous, avouch, eminence, cloistered, vizards, humane,
choughs, thralls, malevolence, homage, exasperate
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Act IV: brindeled, cauldron, gruel, conjure, apparition, chafes, pernicious, diminutive, judicious, homely, unsanctified,
treachery, transpose, cistern, intemperance, blaspheme, ulcerous, hither, doff
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Act V: perturbation, distempered, epicures, antidote, oblivious, purgative, direness, brandished, staves, in trenchant, palter,
salutation, tyranny
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Dialectical Journal: Diction and Tone (36 points)
Respond to each quote by discussing Shakespeare’s use of LANGUAGE. You can determine the tone of the
passage by commenting on the diction. You may discuss the use of figurative or literal imagery in the quote. You
may discuss the use of punctuation or form to determine style. Each quote could also reveal something about the
character speaking the line.
Speaker
Quote
Your response
Fair is foul, and foul is fair.
--Witches, Act I,
scene i
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--Banquo, Act I, scene
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--Lady Macbeth,
Act I,scene v
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequence.
Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be
What 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.
--Macbeth, Act I, scene
vii
I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
And falls on the other.
--Macbeth, Act II,
scene i
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch
thee;
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.
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--Lady Macbeth, Act
III, scene ii
Nought's had, all's spent
Where our desire is got without content.
'Tis safer to be that which we destroy
Than, by destruction, dwell in doubtful joy.
--Macbeth, Act III,
scene ii
Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond
Which keeps me pale! Light thickens, and the
crow
Makes wing to the rooky wood;
Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,
Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
--Macbeth, Act III,
scene iv
Thou canst not say I did it; never shake
Thy gory locks at me.
--Macbeth, Act III,
scene iv
 am in blood
Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er.
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--Angus, Act V,
scene ii
--Macbeth, Act V,
scene v
--Macbeth, Act V,
scene viii
Those he commands move only in command,
Nothing in love: now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Lay on, Macduff,
And damned be him that first cries, 'Hold,
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“I AM” POEM-(8 points)
Instructions: pick a character from the play. Put that character’s name in the “I am” lines. Then, place words after the verbs that
describe the thoughts, feelings, or senses of that character.
(EX: I am Duncan. I feel old. I sense no danger. I see my sons, Malcolm and Donalbain…..).
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I feel _______________________________________________
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Big Ideas (10 pts)
Choose one of the words from the list and explain how it helps us understand the theme of Macbeth. You
should have a definition of the word, three specific examples of the word (quotations) from the novel, and a
thematic statement that uses the word.
Bravery
Friendship
Brutality
Death
Cowardice
Deceit
Trickery
Insanity
Weariness
Illusion
Loyalty
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Create the set: (7 points)
In the space provided, create a set for one of
the scenes. List the Act:______:Scene______
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ASSIGN THE BLAME: (10 points)
There are two ‘pies” below. You will divide each “pie” proportionally to the amount of
blame you assign to Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and the Witches for the murder of a
character. No other characters can share the blame. For example, if you believe that the
Witches, Macbeth, and Lady Macbeth equally share the blame for the death of Duncan, you
should divide the pie equally into thirds. If you believe that Lady Macbeth holds a larger
share of the blame, then your “pie” should illustrate her as having a larger share.
After you have assigned the blame for the death of Duncan, you must assign the blame for
the death of Banquo.
Once you have completed both “pies” and assigned the blame, you need to develop an essay
explaining WHY you have divided each pie in assigning responsibility for the murders.
To prepare for the essays, look at the two pies. What differences do you note? What reasons
can you give for the differences? What has happened to the characters that may have
influenced your assignment of blame?
The Death of DUNCAN
The Death of BANQUO
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PIE CHART ESSAY: (20 points)
This is an essay explaining WHY you have divided each pie in assigning responsibility for
the murders. You must have EVIDENCE (citations from the text) to support your decision.
You must analyze how the events of the play have, or have not, influenced the characters of
Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, and the Witches.
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Literary Terms: Tragedy -36 points
Tragedy:
Tragic hero:
Hamartia:
Hubris:
Anagnorosis:
Peripeteia:
Nemesis:
Catharsis:
Pathos:
Iambic Pentameter: (u /) - Scan the following lines
"There's husbandry in heaven;/ Their candles are all out."
"A falcon, towering in her pride of place,/ Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed."
"Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,/ And put a barren septer in my gripe,
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"The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day:/ Now spurs the lated traveler apace
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RESPONSE TO LITERATURE – CAPT # 4 (24 pts)
Macbeth
OTHER TEXT or FILM
Connections can be another novel, play or short story; film, song; poem; TV show; work of art
GOOD
CONNECTIONS I CAN MAKE ABOUT THIS DRAMA
Name:
Character
Other Text Character
Setting
Other Text Setting
Event
Other Text Event
Weak Connection (literal)
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How successful was Shakespeare in creating literature that is respected universally? Use examples
from the drama to support your thinking.
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