LO: how is Fate connected to Macbeth?

LO: how is Fate connected to Macbeth?

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What does the word fate mean?

CW 10th Sept.

Fate = something that is destined to happen, beyond a person’s control

On a piece of lined paper complete the sentence below:

I am destined to…

LO: how is Fate connected to Macbeth?

LO: how is Fate connected to Macbeth?

What does your daily horoscope say?

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I am a ____________ because

Everything happens for a reason There is no such thing as fate My life has definitely 100% been influenced by

fate

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Strongly Agree Neutral Strongly Disagree

LO: how is Fate connected to Macbeth?

LO: how is Fate connected to Macbeth?

Witches are real

James I was the king of England when Macbeth was written. The case of the North Berwick witches had frightened the king and he wrote a book on the subject entitled ‘Deamonologie’ and appealed to parliament to pass the following act in 1563 which was still a part of English law until 1951!

“if any person shall use any invocation or conjuration of any evil or wicked spirit; 2. or shal, covenant with, entertain, employ, feed or reward any evil or cursed spirit to or for any intent or purpose; 3. or take up any dead man, woman or child out of the grave, - or the skin, bone, or any part of the dead person, to be employed or used in any manner of witchcraft, sorcery, charm, or enchantment; 4. or shall use, practice, or exercise any sort of witchcraft, sorcery, charm or enchantment; 5. whereby any person shall be destroyed, killed, wasted, consumed, pined, or lamed in any part of the body; 6. that every such person being convicted shall suffer death.”

WHO IS THE WITCH?

How are the witches connected to Fate in the play?

What is fate?

What did people think of witches in Shakespeare’s time?

Why are the witches to blame for Macbeth’s fate?

What is the role of the witches in the play?

LO: how is Fate connected to Macbeth?

LO: how is Fate connected to Macbeth?

Who is to blame for…

Who is to blame for…Duncan’s death?

Who is to blame for…Banquo’s death?

Who is to blame for…the deaths of Macduff’s

family?