Wednesday's work:
1. Duncan names Malcolm heir to the Scottish throne (Prince of Cumberland). Why does this present a problem for Macbeth?
1. Duncan names Malcolm heir to the Scottish throne (Prince of Cumberland). Why does this present a problem for Macbeth?
2. Read Act One, Scene 5. Draw one conclusion about
Lady Macbeth from lines 37-53. Support your conclusion with a specific
reference.
3. Compare and contrast the personalities of
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, based on their statements, especially in this scene.Thursday's Work:
Read Scene 7, reading the opening soliloquy three times, looking up unfamiliar words and references after the first reading.
1. Identify the reasons
Macbeth gives in his soliloquy at the start of Scene 7 for not killing Duncan.
2. How does Lady Macbeth
convince her husband to go ahead with the plan?
3. Who seems more evil, in
your opinion? Macbeth or Lady Macbeth? Why?
4. The play makes certain
assumptions about sex and gender. Identify one of these, and support your answer
with a specific reference to Act I.
Here are several versions of Lady Macbeth's soliloquy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x0T_1tLpi4
