Macbeth Lecture Notes

RISE AND FALL OF A GREAT MAN

outline:
Act I-prophecy
Act II murder of Duncan
Act III Becomes King
Act IV Humanity deteriorates
Act V Replaced as king

Murder of Duncan
-Flaw: ambition
• Macbeth is ambitious
-Thinks of surface impression. Not of why
-Macbeth does not blow it off
• Many say because that’s what him and Lady Macbeth wanted
• Macbeth is not a hypocrite: he knows there will be a price to what he wants
• “But in these cases we don’t have judgements..”

Lady Macbeth
• Pure evil
• She tempted  and taunted Macbeth to be King
• She’s animus
• She taunts Macbeth to keep the dream alive
• Anima: Connection with other people , war-like heroe
• Animus: maternal quality

What makes Macbeth heroic?

• politically savvy,
• never evades conversation,
• has a sense or right and wrong
• no hypocrasy in him

Macbeth test answers

Part I
1. A
2. B
3. A
4. C
6. B
7. B
8. B
9. B
10. B
11. He was a good man, but suddenly after given Thane of Cawdor he became corrupted
12. Give the Thane of Cawdor
13.  Tell the futures and taunt
14. Macbeth asks for more and Banquo is indecisive

Part II
1. B
2. B
3. C
4. C
5. A
6. A
7. A
8. C
9. B
10. B

Literature Analysis (Reading Notes)

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte


Setting:

•  1770s-1802
• Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange
• Yorkshire moors
•  in or around two neighboring houses

Protagonist:

•  Heathcliff
• Catherine

Point of view

• Mainly through the voice of Nelly

Tone

• Has taken on a melodramatic tone
• The lost love had been a tragedy

Macbeth Notes

The Real Macbeth

• Originated from Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles
• Means "son of life" (Christian name rather than a patronymic)
• Father was Findlaech who wasruler of Moray
• Mother's  unknown, but  said to have been the daughter of King Malcolm II

The Play

• Written in 1527 by Hector Boece
• Main source for Macbeth was Holinshed's Chronicles
• Based his account of Scotland's history
• formulated several conclusions
• Reason: dramatic purposes, creating a more complex characterization of Macbeth, and the political purposes with King James I in mind.

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Socratic Seminar Notes

Will there be any more Albert Einstein, Picasso, or Shakespeare in our generation to come?
- We must break the routine before we can move on
-You have to be able to do things you don't want to do
-Unable to think beyond the routine anymore
-When you aren't given a specific outline of duties, the work is tainted
-Everything you do or love will eventually become work

What does it take?
-Be able to question everything
-And not be afraid of the answer
-Be open minded
-Look to find the answer to your questions rather act like you know all the answers
*Adults don't like to look like they don't know something which is why children ask triple the more questions a day than adults.

"Play leads to new approaches"
-Leads to the imagination and creativity