Reading:
137 – end of Act 4, scene 1
Skip scene two: This is where MacDuff’s family is murdered.
Skip to 175. MacDuff and Malcolm
and Ross have agreed to challenge Macbeth. MacDuff has learned about his
family.
Read Act 5, scene 1 and scene 3.
Essay Questions:
Essay Question
Brainstorm: 5/8
Write a topic/ theme/ idea that you think an essay could be
about.
Fate vs. Free Will
*Who is at fault? Witches, LM or M?
Turning Points – Reasons for change in Macbeth
*Who is more guilty? M or LM?
Being a man/being a woman
*Who’s responsible for our own actions?
Trusting people
Fault/Responsibility/Turning Points
- In the play, Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Macbeth changes from a loyal soldier to a vicious murderer. Who is responsible for this change in Macbeth. Were the seeds of cruelty and ambition in Macbeth from the beginning, so that he would have changed without any help? Is it the witches who controlled his fate? Is Lady Macbeth most at fault? If this were a trial and you could only convict one person who would it be?
- In the play, Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, many definitions of being a real man and being a woman are presented. Lady Macbeth accuses Macbeth of not being a real man. How does she use this to manipulate him? Macbeth struggles to prove his manhood. How does this make him try to be more compassionate or more cruel? Lady Macbeth tries to deny her own womanhood. What happens to this effort in the end?
- What does the play, Macbeth, seem to say about fate and free will? Is a person controlled by fate or does a person have responsibility for his/her own actions. Is fate real? Is there a way to know our fate, and if we know it, must it control our actions? Look at Macbeth and Banquo’s response to the witches. Look at how Macbeth’s relationship to what he thinks is his fate changes. Do we hold Macbeth responsible for his actions in the end, or was he controlled by fate?
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