Post by mscraig on Mar 13, 2013 11:46:19 GMT
Complete annotation sheets + questions
Act 5 Scene 1
1. List the 3 ways Lady Macbeth incriminates herself and her husband and explain what each tells
us about her state of mind.
2. How do we know the doctor is concerned about her mental well-being?
Act 5 Scene 3
Macbeth prepares for battle against Malcolm.
Act 5 Scene 4
3. What does Malcolm order his soldiers to do?
Act 5 Scene 5
4. Look at Macbeth’s speech lines 8-14.
What does he recognise about himself?
How does this compare with before the murder of Duncan?
5. What do you think happened to Lady Macbeth?
6. Macbeth’s reaction to hearing of his wife’s death is ambiguous.
a. Referring to the notes if necessary list the ways his speech could be interpreted.
b. Bearing in mind his character explain which interpretation you think it is.
7. Macbeth then goes on to reflect on the pointlessness of live.
Explain with reference to the text what this famous speech tells us about his well-being.
Act 5 Scenes 8 & 9
8. What happens to Macbeth?
9. Look at Malcolm’s speech.
a. What does he promise?
b. He refers to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as “this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen.”
Explain what it suggests about the roles he thinks they played in the treachery.
Act 5 Scene 6 and Scene 8
10. Macbeth now doubts the witches’ prophesies “equivocation of the fiend.” Line 43
In scene 8 he refers to the “double sense of these juggling fiends” lines19 & 20
Explain what Macbeth means how he has misinterpreted the witches prophesies.
Act 5 Scene 1
1. List the 3 ways Lady Macbeth incriminates herself and her husband and explain what each tells
us about her state of mind.
2. How do we know the doctor is concerned about her mental well-being?
Act 5 Scene 3
Macbeth prepares for battle against Malcolm.
Act 5 Scene 4
3. What does Malcolm order his soldiers to do?
Act 5 Scene 5
4. Look at Macbeth’s speech lines 8-14.
What does he recognise about himself?
How does this compare with before the murder of Duncan?
5. What do you think happened to Lady Macbeth?
6. Macbeth’s reaction to hearing of his wife’s death is ambiguous.
a. Referring to the notes if necessary list the ways his speech could be interpreted.
b. Bearing in mind his character explain which interpretation you think it is.
7. Macbeth then goes on to reflect on the pointlessness of live.
Explain with reference to the text what this famous speech tells us about his well-being.
Act 5 Scenes 8 & 9
8. What happens to Macbeth?
9. Look at Malcolm’s speech.
a. What does he promise?
b. He refers to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as “this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen.”
Explain what it suggests about the roles he thinks they played in the treachery.
Act 5 Scene 6 and Scene 8
10. Macbeth now doubts the witches’ prophesies “equivocation of the fiend.” Line 43
In scene 8 he refers to the “double sense of these juggling fiends” lines19 & 20
Explain what Macbeth means how he has misinterpreted the witches prophesies.