1. Objective: Students will review important sections of Act II, Scenes I-IV by following a PowerPoint and answering thought questions. Agenda: 1.Macbeth Act V Quiz 2.Review Quiz 3.Review Act V 4.Act it out! (time allowing) Monday, February 9, 2015

2.  Scene opens with the doctor and a gentlewoman  Lady Macbeth is sleepwalking  Incessantly scrubbing her hands to get the “spots” off  Continually talks of Lady Macduff and King Duncan  She hears the knocking again  Doctor states that she needs a priest more than a physician

3.  Why does the gentlewoman not want to repeat what she hears Lady Macbeth saying?  Why does Lady Macbeth always need a light next to her?  “I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the dignity of the whole body.”

4.  Menteith, Caithness, Angus, Lennox, and soldiers enter talking  Stated that English army is near, led by Malcolm, his uncle Siward, and Macduff  All agree to go meet Malcolm  Macbeth is fortifying his castle at Dunsinane  People think he has gone crazy  Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love.  State that his guilt drove him to madness

5.  Servant enters saying there are 10,000 soldiers  Infuriates Macbeth  Doctor tells him Lady Macbeth is sick with visions  Demands that she be cured  Claims medicine is for the dogs  Puts armor on to prepare for battle  Spends the scene ranting and raving like a madman

6.  Macbeth  “This push will cheer me ever, or disseat me now. I have lived long enough. My way of life is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have, but, in their stead, curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not.” Meaning?  Doctor on a “diseased mind”  “Therein the patient must minister to himself.”

7.  Malcolm is marching up to the castle  Orders each soldier to break off a branch and hold it in front of him  Conceals their true numbers  Speaks of Macbeth’s army  “And none serve with him but constrainèd things whose hearts are absent too.” Meaning?  Siward knows they will only accomplish their goals by violence.

8.  Macbeth notes that many of his soldiers joined the other side  Claims he does not remember what fear is  Seyton comes in and tells Macbeth that Lady Macbeth is dead  Popular thought is suicide  Macbeth says, “She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word.”  Messenger says he sees the trees of Birnam wood moving  Macbeth dons his armor and prepares for battle

9.  “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, 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.”  What is Macbeth saying?  Do you agree or disagree?

10.  Malcolm mandates that the branches are put down  Decides his Uncle Siward and his son will lead the first battle  Prepare to strike

11.  Macbeth says he needs to fight like a bear  States he is only afraid of man not born of woman  Young Siward enters  Claims he hates Macbeth’s name more than any other  They fight and Young Siward is killed  Macduff enters and swears he will fight Macbeth or no one at all  Malcolm and Old Siward say castle has been surrendered with no fight

12.  Macbeth talks about suicide  Macduff enters to fight Macbeth  Macbeth is not scared  Thinks Macduff is born of woman  Macduff says, “Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped.”  Caesarian Section  Macduff slays Macbeth  Malcolm crowned King of England

13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFtCYESosDw