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Helpful to understand Macbeth:
1.) The list of characters in the book
2.) Read certain passages aloud
3.) Look at (and do) the exercises in the book
4.) Texts and worksheets on Shakespeare's language
5.) Read the texts at the end of the book
6.) The vocabulary given in the book
7.) The summaries on the left pages
8.) Underline keywords in the text (reasonable marking)
Thursday, 19/10/06
Good morning, everybody. I'm sorry I cannot come to school today, I'm ill.
Please work on scenes I,3 and I,4 of Macbeth.
First help each other to understand possible difficult lines from scene I,3. then do task 2 on p. 16.
Stay in the groups of 3 you have formed for task 2 and read and understand scene I,4. Then do task 3 on p. 18.
Homeowrk:
Prepare I, 5 and do task 1 on p. 22.
See you on Monday.
Summary of Act II
Summary Act 2
Macbeth hallunicates and wants to kill King Duncan with a dagger.
Lady Macbeth helps him with drugging Duncan`s bodyguards.
After killing the King Macbeth becomes crazy because a voice tells him that he will never sleep again.
He brings the two daggers back to Lady Macbeth but she wants the daggers to be in the hands of the bodyguards so they will be suspected of the murder.
As Macbeth cannot control himself, Lady Macbeth has to do this herself.
Macduff arrives at Macbeth`s castle and wants to meet King Duncan. He reveals the murder of Duncan
and shouts to awake Banquo and the king`s sons.
After Duncan's murder is revealed, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth pretend to be surprised and shocked.
Duncan`s sons fear for their lifes and make the decision to flee. Malcom escapes to England and Donalbain
to Ireland.
Banquo, Macduff and the others swear to investigate the murder.
by Cornelia Lubbers
Summary of Act III
Act III begins with a dialogue between Macbeth , King of Scotland, and Banquo, who has his doubts about how Macbeth reached his new position.
Macbeth invites Banquo to a banquet at the palace, but Banquo wants to take a ride with his son Fleance first and then return for the banquet in the evening.
After he has gone, Macbeth meets with two murderers, who he commands to assassinate Banquo and Fleance out in the hills.
In a dialogue with his wife Lady Macbeth, the king admits that fear and insecurity still haunt him, but at the same time he makes hints towards more dark deeds that will be performed. She tries to comfort him and tells him to brood no more.
The murderers try to kill Banquo and Fleance in the darkness, but Fleance manages to escape. When they come back to report the partly successful murder, Macbeth is pleased, yet disturbed by the thought of Fleance’s escape.
At the banquet with his Lords, Macbeth is visited by Banquo, appearing several times as a ghost, visible only for Macbeth. He breaks out in rude offences and curses whenever the ghost enters, greatly worrying the Lords, who cannot see Banquo. After some time, Lady Macbeth sends them away, reassuring them that everything is alright and telling Macbeth he made a real fool out of himself. He swears to meet the Weird Sisters again to challenge them for the whole truth about his life.
Meanwhile the three witches and Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft, agree to use their magic to totally ruin the over-confident Macbeth on their next encounter.
The act ends with a scene at Lennox’s castle, where he very guarded and ironically talks about Duncan’s murder and Macbeth’s guilt, making subtle hints towards Macbeth’s intentions to murder Malcolm, Donaldbain and Fleance.
Malcolm has been warmly welcomed in England and Macduff now plans to overthrow Macbeth with the help of King Edward’s army.
by Katharina Kehl
Katharina, please check your text again. Something is strange in the first sentence and there are a number of spelling mistakes in the rest of the text. Otherwise it is quite good, thank you.
"something strange" has been corrected, as have been all spelling errors I could find. Anybody who discovers more of them - Feel free to correct whatever you want!
Katharina
Summary : Act IV, Scenes 1-3!
The three witches meet around a cauldron in order to cook a brew. Apparitions become visible and warn Macbeth of Macduff, the Thane of Five. They say that Macbeth is safe, and explain that he cannot be killed by anyone born by a woman. Macbeth thinks that no one can win against him. He plans to kill every member of Macduff’s family.
Ross explains to Lady Macduff why her husband fled to Great Britain. A messenger arrives and warns her of danger. He explains that she should flee as well. Lady Macduff does not see a reason. A few moments later, murderers enter and kill her son. Lady Macduff disappears, followed by a murderer.
Malcolm wants to find out if he can trust Macduff. Scotland suffers under Macbeth’s tyranny, people are killed every day. Macduff volunteers to fight against the tyrant. Malcolm lives in exile in Great Britain ; he is the leader of the resistance against Macbeth. Malcolm does not trust Macduff, because he could be Macbeth’s agent. For that reason, he tests his loyalty. After that, Malcolm promises to help Macduff as well as King Edward.
Ross arrives, he brings some news: They have killed all members of Macduff’s family. Macduff vows vengeance: He swears to kill Macbeth.
Svenja & Cassandra
words corrected:
to meet - sich treffen
spelling: to feel safe (adj.) - to save s.o.
cannot
to flee, fled, fled
Summary of Act V
Act V begins in the king’s palace at Dunisane where a doctor and a gentlewoman discuss Lady Macbeth’s strange habit of sleepwalking, when she herself walks in murmuring about the murders of Duncan, Lady Macduff and Banquo, silently watched by the doctor and the gentlewoman. After the doctor has seen Lady Macbeth sleepwalking he is convinced that she needs a priest rather than medical help.
Malcolm, Macduff, other Scottish thanes and the English army, joined by some young Scottish men, meet in Birnam Wood to march towards Dunisane Castle. Malcolm orders to use branches to camouflage their approach to Dunisane. He knows that Macbeth is making his military preparations in a mad rage.\\
Macbeth recalls the predictions of the spirits to his mind and since no naturally born man can defeat him, he gets all crazy about them. When his servant confirms that an army of ten thousand men is approaching the castle he realizes that the coming battle will either strengthen him or dethrone him. The doctor reports about Lady Macbeth’s current state of health and confesses that he will not be able to heal her mental disease.
Lady Macbeth is so much distracted by her paranoia and hallucinations that she commits suicide only a little while later.
Macbeth seems numb in response to the news of his wife’s death and decides to fight till “the flesh is hacked from his bones” and he commands that all Scottish men who cause rumours and spread fear shall be hanged.\\
Outside the castle Malcolm instructs the soldiers to throw down their branches and show their real faces. On the battlefield Macbeth fights vigorously, always keeping in mind that no man born of a woman can harm him. He murders Lord Siward’s son and disappears.\\
Macduff enters the castle and challenges Macbeth longing to cut him down personally. He tells Macbeth that he was delivered by a Ceasarean section and takes revenge for his wife and children by slaying Macbeth. Afterwards he proclaims Malcolm King of Scotland.\\
Malcolm declares that all the thanes will be made earls and invites all of them to see him crowned at Scone.
by Leonie and Antonia
Macbeth and the Great Chain of Being by Christof Schnur
Macbeth and the Great Chain of Being Δ
