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Macbeth Power Point Notes Name:__________________________________ Hour: __________________________________ Slide 1: Have you ever given in to temptation? _________________ Do you believe in prophecies?_________________________ How do you personally decide what is good and what is evil?______________________________________________ What is the difference between greed and ambition?__________________________________________ Do you believe “you reap what you sow”? ________________________________________________________ Do you believe our lives are lead by fate or our actions alone?_____________________________________________________ Themes in Macbeth: Slide 2: Rate each statement on a scale of 1-10. 1 =disagree completely to 10 = agree wholeheartedly Be prepared to explain your reasoning. 1. People who are striving to get ahead often step on other people.___ 2. Being powerful usually is the same thing as being happy.____ 1 3. One mistake can often lead to another.____ 4. Everyone is capable of murder under the right circumstances.____ 5. People who are involved in criminal activities can still feel love, fear, and concern for other people. _____ Slide 3: Macbeth: The Summary Macbeth is a dark, relentless tale of a good and brave Scottish general who, encouraged by the _______________ of three evil witches and by his own wife, murders__________, king of Scotland. ____________ then becomes king and brings about his own destruction. Shakespeare wrote the play for _____________ new king, who had been king of Scotland. To please ________, Shakespeare set the play in Scotland, used many characters who were James' ancestors, and included_________, a subject that James had written about. The play is Shakespeare's shortest_________, probably because King James often fell asleep during performances. Shakespeare's source for the story of Macbeth was The History and Chronicles of Scotland (1526), written by Hector Boece, a Scottish historian and humanist. (Many scholars question the factual reliability of Boece's work, and point out that Shakespeare took liberties with Macbeth's history for dramatic purposes.) Slide 4: Macbeth: The Historical Background The King of England in 1606 was ______________. There was no ______ successor to the throne of ______. Therefore, Elizabeth I chose ________________ to succeed her. After her death in 1603, James VI of Scotland became James I of England. Elizabeth I had been instrumental in the death of her cousin, _____________________________, who was beheaded. On her deathbed, ____________ wanted to ease her way into Heaven, so she chose Mary’s son James to become the next King of England. The appointment of _______ was a good political move, unifying England and Scotland under one King. 2 Macbeth: a tribute to King James I Shakespeare wrote __________ in 1606, during King James’ reign. __________ was a devout advocate of the “Divine Right of Kings.” The setting is __________, King James’ homeland. ____________was an ancestor of James and is shown in the play to be a virtuous person. James believed himself to be an expert on ____________. James had an interest in ______________. Macbeth: an appeal to Elizabethan people’s interests Shakespeare demonstrated the ___________ belief that the country is stable only if the King is good and virtuous. Elizabethans believed that _____ occurs in ______, which is a recurring theme in Macbeth. Shakespeare included a lot of ____________, which the Elizabethans expected to see in a play. The play was considered _______ – a threat to an anointed King and the perceived evil behind the threat History & Macbeth Macdonwald’s rebellion & the invasion of Sweno took place at different times— Shakespeare combined them Duncan is supposed to have been killed by ____________—Shakespeare has _________ commit the murder History represents _____as equal in guilt with Macbeth—Shakespeare whitewashes Banquo’s character as a compliment to King James History makes no mention of _________________—her character is almost wholly the creation of Shakespeare In history, Macbeth fled before __________—Shakespeare shows Macbeth bravely fighting Before the Curtain Opens 3 When the play begins, there are two wars in progress: 1. _________- King Duncan vs. Macdonwald’s rebels 2. _____________ - Scotland, led by King Duncan, against invading Norway, led by King Sweno Setting King Duncan is the King of ____________. Edward the Confessor is the King of _____________. The time period is the __________ century (____________). Shakespeare used __________________ to bend some of the historical information. Introduction to Macbeth Macbeth is another one of Shakespeare’s great __________, based on Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland. It was written around ______but was not published in the first Folio until _____. It tells about the fall of the ambitious couple, _________________________. Macbeth is the ___________, a character who has a fatal (tragic)flaw within himself that he cannot change. He is not a bad person; he is just too ___________. Macbeth is a story about the murder of a king by his cousin, the revenge of a son (__________), three witches who plot against Macbeth, and Macbeth’s rise and fall. 4