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Macbeth-Act 1
Directions: These
questions are intended to be used in class. For Act 1 the teacher
can give the students time to try to answer the questions and
then go over them in class. But starting with Act 2 or Act 3 the
teac her can divide the class into 6 groups and assign each group
one question to answer which a member of the group writes on the
blackboard when they are finished. Then each group in turn
explains the answer they have written on the board. If there are
more than 6 questions, one for each group, groups can volunteer
for bonus points for answering a second question. The rest of the
group can comment or disagree with the answers as well. The
easiest way to do this is to give students a copy of the
questions rather than have them copy the questions from the
board. It saves time.
Scene 1
How does the opening
scene gain the audience's interest?
Scene 2
Aim: What is Macbeth's
reputation and how is it different from his character?
1. What is Macbeth's reputation and what has he done to
deserve this reputation?
2. What was the reputation of the first Thane of Cawdor? What
has his character turned out to be?
3. Whose fairness turned foul and who is fair now?
Scene 3
Aim: How does Macbeth
differ from Banquo?
1. What did the Elizabethan's believe ab out witches?
2. Can you write the prophecies as modern horoscopes?
3. What is Macbeth's reaction to the prophecies?
4. What is Banquo's reaction?
5. What does Macbeth consider in lines 134-138
6. What conclusion does he reach lines 140 to 159?
7. How does Banquo explain Macbeth's behavior, lines 160-163?
8. ANswer the aim.
Scenes 4 and 5
Aim: What is the
relationship between Macbeth and Duncan and Macbeth and Lady
Macbeth?
1. How are lines 13-16 and example of dramatic irony?
2. In lines 31-36 what images does Duncan use?
3. Write and explain the lines that reveal that Duncan should
not trust Macbeth?
4. Compare Lady Macbeth's reaction to the witches' prophecies
with Macbeth's.
5. How does Lady macbeth describe Macbeth?
6. What are some of the images Lady macbeth uses in her
soliloquy, lines 45-60?
7. What advice does Lady Macbeth give Macbeth? Find the lines
and explain them.
8. Answer the aim.
Write the quotes that
answer these questions and then explain how the quotes you wrote
answer the question:
Scene 6 Aim: 1. How is Banquo
a foil?
Scene 7 Aim: What is
Macbeth's conflict and what method does Lady Macbeth use to
help him resolve the conflict?
1. Can you paraphrase
Macbeth's soliloquy?
Then answer questions:
a. Why is Macbeth
hesitant in carrying out the murder?
b. What excuses does
Macbeth give Lady Macbeth for not murdering Duncan?
2. What does Lady
Macbeth say is Macbeth's real reason for not murdering
Duncan?
3. What is Lady
Macbeth's plan?
4. Why does Macbeth go
along with this plan?
5. One critic says
love clashes with duty? Which wins?
6. Answer the
aim.
Act 2
Aim: What is Macbeth's
state of mind before and after the murder compared to Lady
Macbeth's state of mind before and after the murder.
Also how does nature react before and after the murder?
Write the quotes that
answer these questions and then explain how the quotes you
wrote answer the question:
1. What are
Macbeth's hallucinations in Scenes 1, 2?
2. How do Lady Macbeth
and Macbeth differ in their reaction to their bloody
hands?
3.How do Lady Macbeth and
Macbeth differ in their reaction to the dead Duncan?
4. What are examples of
how nature is reacting before and after the murder?
5. How does the porter's
words reflect the themes of the play?
6. Answer the aim.
Act 3
Aims: 1. What are
examples of Dramatic irony in Act 3, scene 4?
2. How and
why does one crime lead to another?
3. How are the
characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth changing?
1. Write the
lines and the line numbers in scene 1 that show Macbeth
still is not a peace even though he has what he wants- he is
king:
A.
Macbeth has a useless crown because Banquo's sons
according to the 3 wierd sisters would become kings.
B.
Macbeth has ruined his peace of mind and and his
soul to make Banqo's son's kings?
2. Write the
lines and line numbers in Scene 1 that show Macbeth motivates
the murderers by imitating Lady Macbeth's method of
persuading Macbeth to murder Duncan.
3. Write the
lines and line numbers in scene2 that show Lady Macbeth
is not content even though she is queen.
4. In Scene 2 Macbeth
says in line 41, "O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear
wife!"
Write the lines, line
numbers and an explanation of the lines that shows what's
troubliing his mind.
5. Write lines 51-2
and explain how they show the Macbeth's relationship has
changed?
6. Write the lines and
line numbers that show how Macbeth reacts to the news of
Banquo's murder and Fleance's escape. Explain
what the lines mean.
7. Write the
lines and line numbers that Macbeth says that depict
Banquop's ghost and explain them.
8. Write the lines and
line numbers that show Macbeth's reaction to the ghost and
explain the lines.
9. Find lines
and line numbers to show Macbeth's character has degenerated.
A. He has paid
spys.
B. He wants
vengence on Macduff.
C.
It's easier to continue on this murderous path than stop.
D. He plans
to see the weird sisters.
10. In scene
6 write the lines and line numbers that show how others
are becoming suspicious of Macbeth and explain.
11. In scene 6 write
the lines and line numbers that show where Macduff has gone
and why and explain.
12. Find the
lines and line numbers that tell the location of
Malcom.
Act 4
Act 4, Scene 1
AIM: What is the
meaning of the three prophecies and what is their effect on
Macbeth?
1. Fill out the 1st
apparition in the chart?
2. Fill out the 2nd
apparition in the chart?
3. Fill
out the 3rd appartition in the chart?
4. What is
the 4th supernatural viewing that Macbeth sees and what is
his reaction?
5. Why does Macbeth
decide to murder Macduff's family? Explain lines
167-170.
6. How has Macbeth
changed? How does the decison to murder Macduff's
family differ from his decisions to murder Duncan and Banquo?
Act 4 Scene 2-
7. What is the
character of Lady Macduff and her son? (Use quotes and
explain them?)
8. Explain Lady
Macduff's lines 81-86.
Act 4, scene3
AIM: 1.Why does
Malcolm not trust Macduff and how does he test him? 2. How
has Scotland changed under Macbeth's rule? 3. How will the
new ruler behave?
1. Write the lines that
show that Malcom doesn't trust Macduff:
a. He is not sure
that Macduff is telling the truth.
b. Macbeth was
once thought to be honest.
c. Macduff was a
friend of Macbeth.
d. Macbeth has
left Macduff unharmed.
e. Macduff may
betray Malcolm to Macbeth.
2. Write more lines
that show that Malcolm doesn't trust Macduff:
a. Macduff may kill
Malcolm for Macbeth.
b. Macbeth is a
traitor.
c. Even a good
man may obey a wicked king.
d. Evil often
tries to look good.
f. Macduff has
abruptly left his family behind in danger.
g. Malcolm has
cause to be suspicious for his own safety.
3. Malcolm tells lies
about himself to Macduff. FInd the lines and explain
the lies.
4. Write the lines
which show Malcolm beliefes in Macduff and explain them.
5. Write the
lines Ross says that describe Scotland under Macbeth and
explain the lines.
6. What does Malcolm's
lines 276-281 mean?
Act 5
AIMS: 1. How has
Lady Macbeth deteriorated mentally? 2. How has the war
against Macbeth proceeded and how does he react to the
events? 3. How is order restored and why in Macbeth's
defeat do we feel sympathy for him?
Act 5, Scene 1:
1. What are the events
to which Lady Macbeth alludes which happened earlier in the
play? a. lines 36-43
b. lines 44-47
c. lines 53-55
d. lines 65-67
e. lines 69-72
2. a. Write the
lines said by the doctor that hint at what bothers Lady
Macbeth and explain them.
b. Write the
lines that foreshadow Lady macbeth's suicide.
Act 5, Scene 2
3. Write and explain
the lines that use a metaphor to show Macbeth is supposed to
have committed murders.
4. Write and explain
the lines using a clothing simile that show Macbeth is
loosing the loyalty of his subjects.
5. Write and explain
the lines that use images comparing Scotland to a sick
patient and comparing Macbeth and Malcolm to plants.
Act 5, Scene 3
6. Write and explain
the lines that are allusions to the witches prophecies to
Macbeth?
7. Write and explain
lines showing Maceth's insults to his servant.
8. Write and explain
lines showing that Macbeth regrets the path he has taken in
his life.
9. Write and explain
the lines that show Macbeth has lost control of his people.
10. Write and explain
the lines of Macbeth's plee to the doctor to cure his wife?
Act 5, Scene 4
11. What is the
purpose of scene 4?
12. Write and explain
the lines that show Macbeth's soldiers do not love him.
Act 5, scene 5
13. In lines 15-17
explain how Macbeth's past has affected him.
14. In lines 122 to
31 explain the images in Macbeth's view of life on
Earth.
15. Write the lines
and explain how Macbeth is contemplating suicide.
Act 5, Scene 8
16. Write and explain
lines when a) Macbeth again contemplates suicide and b) shows
remorse of what he did to Macduff's family.
17. Write and explain
the lines to show a) he compares himself to a baited bear and
b)he is still a brave soldier.
18.Write the lines and
explain a) that Macduff's mother had a caesarian section not
a vaginal birth and b) how Malcolm refers to the dead
Macbeth's.
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