English 10R-Wednesday, 5/17/17

Homework:   

-Complete packet questions for Act V (pages 12 and 14)

Macbeth Unit Test Friday:  Quote Identification and Written Response.)

Classwork-(Review of all Act V Questions)

Re-read Scene 8 (185-191) Answer with text evidence.

1.           Why does Macbeth still have confidence when he first encounters Macduff?

2.           What does Macduff reveal about his birth (lines 19-20), and how does Macbeth react to Macduff’s revelation regarding his birth (lines 21-26)?

3.           What are Malcolm’s first acts as the new king of Scotland? (page 191)

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Macbeth, Act V, Scene 5-Pages 177-179:

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!   5

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.                                                       10

1.            According to Macbeth, what waits at the end of “all our yesterdays”?

2.       To what three things does Macbeth compare life in lines 6-10?

3.       What is the effect of the repetition of the word tomorrow?  What view does it express of the future?

4. In line 5 Macbeth is referring to more than putting out a candle.  What is he really talking about?

5. What value does Macbeth place on life, according to these lines?