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Macbeth Post Play Questions: Tragic Hero Aristotle – A tragic hero is a man who rises to a high ranking position and then falls from that position often to death and desolation. Two forces are involved: the tragic flaw (hamartia) and fate. Elizabethan Tragic Hero – This is a variant whereby the tragic hero is responsible for his own downfall, emphasizing a waste of human potential. 1. What conclusion can we draw at the end of the play about justice being served? Has one unjust monarchy just been exchanged for another? Is this the end of a cycle or the continuation of one? Does the play assure us that the forces of good will prevail? *Polanski shows Donaldbain going to meet the sisters in his film interpretation. *What is Macduff’s motivation in the battle against Macbeth? (patriotism or private vengeance?) 2. Contrast the changes in Lady Macbeth and Macbeth as the play unfolds. (Consider rehumanization/dehumanization motif.) How can this shift cause a change in the way readers feel about each one? Is there a substantial gender commentary here about the way men and woman respectively internalize guilt? 3. Where fate and free will are concerned, is Mac truly the architect of his own destruction? Or is he simply a puppet of the weird sisters, bent for their amusement? *How do the witches function in the play? *Can there be tragedy without free will? 4. Throughout the play, how does Macbeth show us, even at his cruelest moments, that he is fully aware of the depravity and moral consequences of his actions? What does his self-awareness suggest about him? As a tragic hero, is there anything admirable about Macbeth? 5. What does it mean to be a man? 6. Critic Mary McMarthy suggests in an essay about Macbeth, “It is a troubling thought that Macbeth, of all Shakespeare’s characters, should seem the most ‘modern,’ the only one you could transpose into contemporary battle dress or a sport shirt and slacks.” (Signet Classic Macbeth) React to this statement. Name: ____________________ Macbeth Assignment Type: 3rd person, expository Parameters: thesis, body, conclusion essay 12 pt. Ariel font 1” margins double-spaced 5 supporting quotes with page numbers (MLA format) Well-Revised! Objective: Select one the questions on the back to answer in a formal essay response. Use at least five quotes from the play to support your response. Timeline: Thesis paragraph due Monday 12/19 (10pts.) Complete, Typed Draft due Wednesday 12/21 (20 pts.) Final Draft due Friday 12/23 (100 pts.) Notes: 1. Final Drafts are due in person in class on Friday. Anything turned in later than the class period will be late (minimum 10 pts. lost). 2. Papers turned in later than Friday must be emailed to me at my hotmail address ([email protected]), complete and revised, as a Word Document attachment (not cut and paste). These papers will lose 10 pts. a day. 3. Failure to follow any of the above parameters will result in return of the paper for correction. Late penalties will apply to returned papers. Focus: ________________________________________________________________ Content: ______________________________________________________________ Organization: __________________________________________________________ Style: _________________________________________________________________ Conventions: ___________________________________________________________ Overall Score: ______/100