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Get out your Act 4 script for Macbeth.
Skim and scan Act 4 and be ready to answer the following questions: What is the setting? What characters are in the scene? How many apparitions appear in the scene? Name each one.
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What characters are in the scene?
What is the setting? What characters are in the scene? How many apparitions appear in the scene? Name each one. A Cave 3 witches, Macbeth, apparitions, Lennox 3— 1st—Armed Head 2nd—Bloody Child 3rd—holding tree branch
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Act 4: Three Scenes Things to Notice… Shortest Act Clarifies Macduff as Macbeth’s Foil Shows the witches’ “false security” plan for Macbeth Shows Macbeth’s deterioration and total descent into evil and cruelty.
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Act Four, Scene 1 Plot summary: Macbeth seeks out the witches, and the witches prophesy further but leave out details t Then, Lennox tells Macbeth that Macduff is raising an army against him.
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"An armed Head" "A bloody child"
Act 4:__________will return to ruin Macbeth Macbeth thinks: it doesn't matter; he's born of woman so I'm safe. Act 5: Macbeth's Realization: "An armed Head" Act 4: "no man of woman born shall harm Macbeth--means Macbeth thinks: Everyone is born from a woman--I'm safe! Act 5: Macbeth's realization: "A bloody child"
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"a child wearing a crown and holding a tree"
Macbeth need not fear until great Birnam wood shall come to Dunsinane. (Macbeth thinks: how can trees move up a hill: Impossible! I'm safe.) Act 5: Macbeth's realization: "a child wearing a crown and holding a tree" ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Act 5 Realization Moment:
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Imagery: The show of eight kings; ends with Banquo holding glass (glass = mirror) Discuss the meaning of this:
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Foil: a character who is presented as a contrast to a second character so as to point to or show to advantage some aspect of the second character. Who is emerging as Macbeth’s Foil in this scene?
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Scene 2—Macduff’s castle
Plot summary: Assassins surprise and kill Macduff’s family at their castle.
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Pathos: Great feeling. How has Shakespeare set this scene up with great pathos, so the audience feels strong emotion?
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Juxtaposition of Contrast:
the powerful effect of two very different images Placed side-by-side A touching “mother-child” scene; the innocence and playfulness of the dialogue between them; the mother’s worry that they are unprotected. The brutal murder by the assassins that Macbeth has sent to kill Macduff’s family.
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Demonstrating your knowledge of Act 4:
Choice #1:Create a Macbeth Prop Box—transform a shoebox into a display for an “artifact”—an object related to the play Macbeth. Include three related quotations, and an explanation of how the object is significant to the play and its themes and/or characters.
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Choice #2: Graphic Design/Comic book…trace a character’s transformation throughout Macbeth with one “comic book” page from each act of the play~4-5 total. Each page should show a significant plot event related to the character that shows how s/he was at the beginning of the play, and how s/he changes throughout the play. Each page must include a significant quote from the novel that reveals characterization.
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Choice #3: Macbeth: Quality Cartoon Quote Posters
Draw 3-5 cartoon illustrations that feature a significant quote from Macbeth. Make sure that the quote is written in large, attention-getting letters that communicate the idea of the quote.
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