English 10R-Tuesday, 5/2/17

Homework:

1. Revise last night’s homework prompt:  How are the motif of sleep and the central idea of deception further developed in this scene?

2. Finish Act III, Scene 4 questions 1-7

Classwork:

Act III (pages 91-95)

Scene 2: 

1. What is troubling Lady Macbeth?  Find/rewrite a line that shows Lady Macbeth’s frame of mind in this scene (first few lines-page 91).

2. (Top of 93) What advice does L. Macbeth offer Macbeth about his bad thoughts?

3. Explain lines 60- 62.

4.What does Macbeth choose not to tell Lady Macbeth about?

***Revise last night’s homework prompt:  How are the motif of sleep and the central idea of deception further developed in this scene?

Scene 3 (pages 95-97)

1.   What went wrong with Macbeth’s plot to have Banquo and Fleance murdered?

  

2.   How does this relate to the witches’ prophecy?

Macbeth:  Act III, Scene 4

1. Why does Macbeth not see the “place reserved” to which Lennox points (lines 55–60)?

2. When Lady Macbeth tells everyone “My lord is often thus / And hath been from his youth” (lines 64–65) to what does “thus” refer?

3. How does Lady Macbeth seek to distract the banquet guests from Macbeth’s “fit” (lines 64–69)? Provide evidence.

4. When Lady Macbeth says, “This is the very painting of your fear” (line 74), what does she believe is happening?

5. Why does Lady Macbeth draw Macbeth aside? 

6. How does the interaction between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth affect the mood of the scene?

7. What does Macbeth say happened in the past when “the brains were out” (line 95)?  How is death in the past different than death now? To what specific event does Macbeth refer?