MACBETH
REVIEW GUIDE
Things to know:
- List the five elements of tragedy
- List the five elements of a tragic hero
- Discuss Macbeth’s tragic flaw
- Discuss who wins in Macbeth and why? Who is the hero?
- Define soliloquy and monologue and point to examples from Macbeth
- Outline the plot according to the six elements of plot: exposition, inciting event, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution (give at least three events for the rising and falling action)
- Identify the following characters and discuss they roles in the play (Who they are, What they do, Why the do what they do)
Macbeth Macduff The
Porter
Lady Macbeth Lady Macduff The
Witches
Duncan Lennox The
Doctor
Malcolm Ross The
Bloody Captain
Donalbain Seyton Fleance
Banquo Menteith Siward
- Discuss and give examples of the following THEMES:
--Blind Ambition
--The Corruption of Power
--Appearance vs. Reality
--Superstition and how it affects
human behavior
--Good vs. Evil
- Discuss the following symbols/motifs (what people and/or ideas the represent and connect them to a theme)
--washing of hands --blood
--planting of seeds, things
growing
--the atmosphere of Macbeth’s
castle
--spells or chants and
supernatural beings
--weather --daggers
--spirits, scorpions, snakes and
things in the mind
--birds and flying:
Eagles Crows
Sparrows Geese
Owl Wren
Martlet
Falcon
- Identify the speaker and the significant of important and famous quotes from the following characters:
Witches, Apparitions, Banquo,
Duncan, Macduff, Malcolm, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, The Bloody Captain, Lady
Macduff, Ross
- Know and review your study questions for each Act (you should have done these for homework). Some of these questions will be on the test.
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