1. Macbeth Day 5 (3/2) and Day 6 (3/5)
Agenda
Warm up
Warm up
Subtext
Inflection review
1.5 – subtext lines
1.6 and 1.7 listen
Soliloquy
Motivations
People have different ideas about what is considered masculine and what is considered feminine. List 5 attributes or activities that you consider masculine and 5 that you consider feminine. Do you think that your list is pretty typical, or would it anger a lot of people? Explain your answer

2. Masculine
Feminine

3. Definition: gender
Gender: the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with male or female.
Note: this is not the same thing as biological traits

4. Listen to 1.5 and 1.6 1.5-1.6 Character of Lady Macbeth 1.5
Lady Macbeth reads a letter from her husband telling about his promotion and saying that King Duncan will be visiting in their castle tonight. She greets him with plans of regicide.
1.6
Lady Macbeth welcomes Duncan to Inverness

5. Listen to 1.5 and 1.6 1.5-Character of Lady Macbeth
Lines and 44-60: Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy
How is she reacting to the news of the prophecy? How is it similar/different from Macbeth’s reactions
What does she think of her husband? From what we’ve seen, do you think she is right about him?
She talks at times about her gender—wishing to be less feminine (“unsex me here”)—why would she have this opinion? What is it about femininity you think she is rejecting and why?

6. Subtext What a person is thinking/feeling as he says something.
Example: “You’ve made me very happy.”
You just promoted me to a better job
You just told me I won the lottery.
You just wrecked my new car.

7. “Oh, no you won’t”
Create 3 different subtexts for this line. What is the person thinking or feeling when he says it?

8. Subtext in Shakespeare
Text: YOUNG SIWARD: What is thy name MACBETH: Thou’lt be afraid to hear it Subtext: YOUNG SIWARD MAcbeth

9. Subtext in Shakespeare
Text: YOUNG SIWARD: What is thy name MACBETH: Thou’lt be afraid to hear it Subtext: YOUNG SIWARD: This is boring. I wish I were back in Kansas with Dorothy Macbeth: I am going to scare the wits out of this little ner

10. Subtext in Shakespeare
Text: YOUNG SIWARD: What is thy name MACBETH: Thou’lt be afraid to hear it Subtext: YOUNG SIWARD: I am scared spitless of this monster Macbeth: I am going to rip this kid apart

11. Subtext in Shakespeare
Text: YOUNG SIWARD: What is thy name MACBETH: Thou’lt be afraid to hear it Subtext: YOUNG SIWARD: I hate this killer Macbeth: What is the use of fighting any longer