English 10R-Wednesday, 5/3/17

Homework:

(Quiz Acts II and III-Tuesday, 5/9 (5/8-AP Bio)

-Collection:  Central Idea response homework (Act 3, Scenes 1-2)

    Continue Scene 4 with questions:

Focus:  How do the interactions of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth in Act 3, Scene 4 reflect central ideas in the play?

  

Act 3, Scene 4 Continued...

(Reread page 109 lines 151–176, (from “It will have blood, they say” to “We are yet but young in deed”)    Tedious means “long and tiresome.”

1.    What might Macbeth mean by “blood will have blood” (line 151)?

2.    What does it mean if Macduff “denies his person” in response to the “great bidding” of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth? Why would Macbeth be concerned if Macduff did not come at their “great bidding” (lines 159–160)?

3.    To whom does “them” refer in line 163?

4.    What does Macbeth reveal about the homes of the noblemen (line 164)?

Paraphrase Act 3.4, lines 168–172 (from “I am in blood” to “acted ere they may be scanned”).

5.    What comparison does Macbeth draw in lines 168–170? Why would “Returning [be] as tedious as go o’er” a body of water (lines 169–170)?

6.    What decision does Macbeth make in terms of “returning” or going “o’er” (lines 169–170)? Provide evidence.

7.    Why must the “strange things” in Macbeth’s head “be acted” upon before they are “scanned” (171–172)?

8.    What does Lady Macbeth think Macbeth needs to do (line 173)? Why?

9.    What is the “deed” Macbeth mentions (line 176)?   What does Macbeth mean when he states that he and Lady Macbeth are “young in deed” (line 176)?