Mon. May 6

BR:

Answer discussion question in Edmodo. What is your fondest memory of your senior year?

Agenda:

• Students will finish Act V questions to be graded and turned in. Act V quiz tomorrow.
• Students will be introduced to the sociogram project: requirements, due dates, examples.See Edmodo for details.
• Students will begin discussion questions. Students will answer these individually. Due Wednesday May 8. (See Edmodo for details.)

 

Macbeth Discussion Questions – Due Wednesday, May 8

1. Evil within vs. evil without. Is evil an outside force, or does it come from within a person? Find  instances in the play to support either theory, or both.
2. How is Macbeth destroyed by evil? Trace the path of Macbeth’s downfall and show how it happens as a consequence of his murdering Duncan.
3. Trace how Lady Macbeth is destroyed by evil. Show how she renounces all human feelings in Act I and seems to be successful. After the murder, follow her downward course into madness and death.
4. Supernatural events occur throughout the play. Discuss their dramatic function. Each time Macbeth encounters something supernatural – the witches, the floating dagger, a ghost – he moves more deeply into evil. List the supernatural events and comment on how each marks a step in Macbeth’s downfall.
5. Describe the way Macbeth and Lady Macbeth influence each other in the play. What effect does Lady Macbeth’s determination to kill Duncan have on her husband? After the murder, how does Macbeth change, and how does that effect Lady Macbeth?
6. How does Shakespeare establish the Macduff is a good man? Show how Macduff’s character is revealed through his actions and reactions. Focus on how he handles himself after Duncan’s murder and after hearing that his wife and children have been killed.
7. Choose a theme to discuss: reality vs. appearance, ambition, violence, guilt, etc. Discuss how this theme is shown throughout the play. Provide at least two examples.
8. Discuss the motif of sleeplessness. When is it first introduced? What does it symbolize? Provide at least two examples of the mention of sleep.