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William Shakespeare Slide 2 What if you met three strange women who predict your future and those predictions started coming true? What if the women predicted you would be the most powerful and richest ruler in your country? WAIT MAKE Would you WAIT to see if it came true, OR would you try to MAKE the promise come true? Slide 3 Slide 4 Generals Macbeth and Banquo and the whole Scottish army defeats the invading Norwegian army. King Duncan orders the former Thane of Cawdor executed and rewards valiant Macbeth with all the traitors lands and title. Slide 5 After the bloody battle, Macbeth and Banquo encounter the three weird sisters. KING They greet Macbeth as Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, and KING hereafter. They tell Banquo he will father kings. Slide 6 King Duncan announces his own elder son Malcolm heir to the throne and names him Prince of Cumberland. Later Malcolm is accused of hiring the bodyguards to kill his father, so flees to England. Englands King Edward provides protection. Slide 7 Plans King Duncans murder, drugs King Duncans guards, and urges reluctant Macbeth to kill the sleeping man. Later, sleepwalks and talks in her sleep about not being able to wash the blood from her hands, Out, damnd spot, out! Commits suicide mumbling Hell is murky. Slide 8 A character knows less than the audience, and we wait in anticipation for the character to find out the truth. King Duncan observes, "This castle hath a pleasant seat, but we know his host and hostess are plotting his murder within the walls of Inverness. Duncan's complete unawareness of danger builds suspense. Slide 9 King Duncan is an old, kind, and generous ruler. He is Macbeths kin. As guest in Macbeths castle, he is entitled to Macbeths protection. Slide 10 Before killing his king, Macbeth sees a floating dagger. As thick drops of blood appear on the blade and hilt, he speaks to his vision, I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. (2.1.45-47) What would you do about a nightmare or vision of horror? Have you ever felt guilty about a wrong action even though you got away with it? Slide 11 The porter provides comic relief from the previous tense murder scene. As the porter laughs, we know the visiting noblemen are about to discover a grisly murder. The drunken gatekeeper acts and speaks jokingly as if he has awaken in hell. Other examples: Fair is foul and foul is fair. When the battle is lost and won. Nothing is but what is not. Noughts had, alls spent. Slide 12 Macbeth orders the murder of Banquo and son Fleance, but Fleance escapes. A third, hired murderer kills the first two murderers. Macbeth sees the bloody ghost of Banquo at a feast on the same night as the murders. Slide 13 Slide 14 Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? (2.2.57-60) Slide 15 Helmeted head warns, Beware Macduff. A bloody child cries, None of woman born shall harm Macbeth. A child king holding a small tree asserts, Macbeth shall never vanquished be, until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill/Shall come against him. Eight kings in procession walk by with the last, carrying a mirror that reveals an unending line of kings born of Banquo. Slide 16 Macduff, Thane of Fife, flees to England to convince Malcolm to return and claim the throne. Macbeth orders the slaughter of Macduffs wife and children, and anyone left in Macduffs castle. Slide 17 To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. (5.5) Slide 18 Shakespeare's tragic hero is a man of noble birth who falls from a position of honor and respect due to a flaw in his character. He freely chooses a course of action which ultimately causes him suffering and brings him to a fatal end (Campbell 129). Slide 19 Advancing English army lead by Duncans returning son Malcolm disguises their numbers using the branches from Burnam Wood as camouflage. In a fierce battle, Macbeth learns that Macduff was from his mother untimely rippd (C-section). Macduff beheads Macbeth and holding the severed head proclaims Malcolm the new King of Scotland. Slide 20 Are our lives already mapped out for us, OR do we have a hand in what happens to us? At the end of the play the audience is forced to consider the extent to which the characters have control over their own lives. Ambition and Manliness Supernatural and Darkness Guilt and Blood Clothing and Deception Outward vs. Inward Slide 21 Pun=wordplay, a stylistic device used to create ambiguity: If he do bleed, Ill gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt (2.2.71-73). Metaphor=implied comparison: I have no spur/To prick the sides of my intent, but only/Vaulting ambition, which oerleaps itself (1.7.25-27). Slide 22 1. Pick a favorite quote from the play. 2. Identify the speaker. 3. Give its meaning/modern translation. 4. Explain its important in the play. 5. Provide its location: act.scene.line(s). Slide 23 Fair is foul and foul is fair. If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me. The Thane of Cawdor lives, why do you dress me in borrowed robes? Look like th innocent flower, But be the serpent under t. Fair and noble hostess, We are your guest tonight. Hes here in double trust: First as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed. Slide 24 Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done t. Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more. A little water clears us of this deed: how easy is it then! Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst! Theres daggers in mens smiles. Slide 25 Whats done is done. I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er. Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, As the weird women promised, and I fear Thou play'dst most foully for 't. O, full of scorpions is my mind! Slide 26 Double, double, toil and trouble, Fire burn and cauldron bubble. All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell-kite! All? Not in the legions Of horrid hell can come a devil more damned In evils to top Macbeth. Slide 27 All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? I bear a charmd life. I have liv'd long enough: my way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf. She should have died hereafter. Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!" Slide 28 Why do we continue to study Shakespeare? What relevance does Shakespeare have to our life?