Oh Fie! A Test You can use your copy of the play Fill in the blank quotes Find lines showing examples of literary techniques. E.g. “Find a line that shows irony.” Explain connections between a quote, and the play as a whole.

Learning goals: 1.Try strategies for reading Shakespearean language 2.Get familiar with the characters and themes in Macbeth

Act V Quiz

Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why, then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?--Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much _____ in him.

Act V Quiz Bring me no more reports; let them fly all: Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane, I cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm? Was he not born of woman? The spirits that know All mortal consequences have pronounced me thus: 'Fear not, Macbeth; no man that's born of woman Shall e'er have _____ upon thee.'

Act V Quiz Let every soldier hew him down a ______ And bear't before him: thereby shall we shadow The numbers of our host and make discovery Err in report of us.

Act V Quiz To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! 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 ______.

Act V Quiz I will not yield, To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet, And to be baited with the rabble's curse. Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane, And thou opposed, being of no woman born, Yet I will try the last. Before my body I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, ______!'

Dench Sleepwalking

Act V Reading Questions

Act 5, Scene 1 1.In this scene, Lady Macbeth is seen sleepwalking. She keeps trying to wash her hands, but says she can’t get the blood off. Do you think the cause of her disturbance is supernatural, or psychological?

Act V Reading Questions 2.In your opinion, how has Lady Macbeth changed since the beginning of the play?

Act V Reading Questions Act 5, scene 2 3.The army rebelling against Macbeth marches toward Birnham wood to meet Malcolm and the English army. Which is the best way to usurp a throne, Macbeth’s method (murder in the night), or Malcolm’s (full army battle)?

Act V Reading Questions Act 5, scene 3 4.How do you think Macbeth feels about his chances of winning?

Act V Reading Questions Act 5, scene 4 5.Malcolm orders his army to cut down branches to carry, using the trees in Birnham wood. Does this remind you of anything?

Act V Reading Questions Act 5, scene 5 6.Describe Macbeth’s reaction to the news that Lady Macbeth has died.

She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! 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.

Act V Reading Questions Act 5, scene 7 7.Wow. That’s a pretty crazy battle, eh?

Act V Reading Questions Act 5, scene 8 8.What terrifying thing does Macbeth learn about Macduff?

Act V Reading Questions 9.Will Malcolm be as good a king as Macbeth?

Let’s watch Act V

Disturbing your understanding Historically, Macbeth was a good king, who had a long, prosperous and peaceful reign Could Lady Macbeth have been kidnapped? What happened to her child? Midwifery vs. patriarchy Witch trials