Tragedy of Macbeth Lesson

Close Read

Macbeth Act V

Draw

How are you today?

Open Ended

Who do you think is a worse person, Lady Macbeth or Macbeth? Or are they equally as bad? Explain why you think so.

​Minor Characters

​Minor characters can interact with and affect the major characters. 

​Minor characters, however, could be removed from the story without drastically changing the plot.

​Figurative Lanugage

• ​Simile

• ​Metaphor

• ​Personification

Look at Act V, Scene ii, lines 12–31 to find examples of figurative language..​

​Extended Metaphor

​An extended metaphor is a metaphor that is developed over the text.

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It is a metaphor that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph, or lines in a poem.

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It is often comprised of more than one sentence, and sometimes consists of a full paragraph or more.

​Look at Act V, Scene iii, lines 39–60.

Phrases such as “Go to, go to!” (Scene i, line 43) and “Death of thy soul!” (Scene iii, line 16) express strong emotion and call attention to significant moments in the play.

​Exclamatory Phrases

Open Ended

Write your own example of an exclamatory phrase. Be sure to keep it school-appropriate. ;)

​A TRAGEDY is a play in which disaster befalls the central character.

• a cause-and-effect chain of events, partly caused by the central character's tragic flaw, that leads him or her to disaster

  dialogue and events that provoke a mixture of reactions in the audience, including pity, fear, and awe

  powerful action that creates a spectacle

  comic scenes that provide relief from the mood of sadness or tension

​Tragic Flaw

The term TRAGIC FLAW means an inherent character weakness or defect, the term may also refer to a flawed action—a mistake, error, or bad decision—that contributes to the hero’s destruction.

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Sometimes, this mistake is the result of an innate character weakness, such as extreme ambition.

Open Ended

What is Macbeth's tragic flaw?

Where do you see this flaw in the play?

​Compound Adjective a single adjective that is made up of two or more words.

When a compound adjective precedes the noun or pronoun it modifies, the words that make up the adjective are joined by a hyphen.

• ​high-speed chase

• ​much-loved professor

​When a compound adjective follows the word it modifies, a hyphen is usually not necessary.

• ​a chase that is high speed

• ​a professor who is much loved

Draw

Mark the compound adjectives.

​Congratulations!

You made it through Macbeth!

Open Ended

Write your own sentece using a hyphenated compound adjective.