1. QUICK WRITE What do people value in life?
What are people willing to do for what they value?

2. ANALYSIS Mood Imagery Figurative Language Syntax Theme
Read the following lines.
Consider as you read and reread the lines:
What does this person look like?
What is this person doing?
What is your interpretation of the comments?
What has caused this person to make these comments?
Mood
Imagery
Figurative Language
Syntax
Theme

3. 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.

4. TRAGEDY Define tragedy.
In the case of two similar situations what might make one a tragedy and the other not a tragedy? Explain using a specific example.
What emotions does tragedy evoke in the witnesses (hear, see, read, etc.)?

5. TRAGEDY DEFINED
a lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster: the tragedy of war.
A lamentable element of drama, of literature generally, or of life.

6. TRAGEDY
a dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or society, to downfall or destruction.

7. TRAGEDY
any literary composition, as a novel, dealing with a somber theme carried to a tragic conclusion.

8. TRAGEDY
Tragedy is the “imitation of an action” (mimesis) according to “the law of probability or necessity.” Aristotle indicates that the medium of tragedy is drama, not narrative; tragedy “shows” rather than “tells.” According to Aristotle, tragedy is higher and more philosophical than history because history simply relates what has happened while tragedy dramatizes what may happen, “what is possible according to the law of probability or necessity.” History thus deals with the particular, and tragedy with the universal. Events that have happened may be due to accident or coincidence; they may be particular to a specific situation and not be part of a clear cause-and-effect chain.

9. TRAGEDY CONT.
Therefore they have little relevance for others. Tragedy, however, is rooted in the fundamental order of the universe; it creates a cause-and-effect chain that clearly reveals what may happen at any time or place because that is the way the world operates. Tragedy therefore arouses not only pity but also fear, because the audience can envision themselves within this cause-and-effect chain.

10. TRAGIC HERO Potential for greatness-doomed to fail
The tragic hero will most effectively evoke both our pity and terror if he is neither thoroughly good nor thoroughly evil but a combination of both.

11. TRAGIC HEROS ARE Born into nobility Responsible for own fate
Endowed with a tragic flaw
DOOMED to make a serious error in judgment

12. TRAGIC HEROES EVENTUALLY
FALL from great heights or high esteem
Realize they have made an irreversible mistake
Faces and accepts death with honor
TRAGIC death

13. TRAGIC HERO & AUDIENCE
THE AUDIENCE IS AFFECTED BY PITY and/or FEAR

14. FREYTAG’S PYRAMID
The structure of tragedy.

15. ARISTOTLE’S SIX ELEMENTS OF TRAGEDY
Plot
Character
Diction
Music
Thought
Spectacle

16. PLOT Events rather than theme Plot-unity
Each action should initiate the next rather than stand alone
Must be involved in conflict that has a pattern of entanglement
Rising action-crisis-climax-falling action with resolution

17. CHARACTER Person or personality
Combination of character and thought gives rise to plot

18. THOUGHT
Theme, argument and overall meaning

19. DICTION The word choices made by the playwright
The enunciation of the actors delivering the lines

20. MUSIC
The rhythm of speeches and the rhythm of melody that serve to embellish tragedy.

21. SPECTACLE
Scenery
Costumes
Special effects

22. MACBETH: CHARACTER ANALYSIS
As you read keep notes on Macbeth’s character.
CONSIDER:
A character map
Chart of changes

23. MACBETH: SETTING
Some critics note Shakespeare’s use of setting over the storyline itself.
Keep track of the setting/atmosphere
Note any symbolism/metaphors

24. MACBETH ANALYSIS

25. RESOURCES http://www.allwords.com/word-tragic%20hero.html
Arnott, Peter. The Theater in Its Time. Little Brown and Company: Boston Print.

26. Discussion Questions for Text Supplemental readings
Shakespeare’s Macbeth
What did you find interesting?
Look at list of findings. Watch for how many Shakespeare works into the play.
We will read excerpts of Holinshed’s Chronicles prior to Act 3 and Act 4

27. Discussion Questions for Text Supplemental readings
Reading Shakespeare’s Language
What are your thoughts, reactions questions?
Did you look up any words?
What advice is given in these pages for you to better understand and work through the challenge of the language?

28. Discussion Questions for Text Supplemental readings
An Introduction to this Text
What are your thoughts, reactions, questions? Anything strike you as interesting?