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Macbeth Review

Macbeth Review. Fill in the blanks. I know you know this…. At the beginning, Macbeth is a ____________ soldier. . I know you know this, too…. The three witches start our story off by predicting that Macbeth will be ____________. I know you know this, too….

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Macbeth Review

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  1. Macbeth Review Fill in the blanks.

  2. I know you know this… • At the beginning, Macbeth is a ____________ soldier.

  3. I know you know this, too… • The three witches start our story off by predicting that Macbeth will be ____________.

  4. I know you know this, too… • They also predict that Banquo’ssons will be __________________.

  5. I know you know this, too… • All this gets in Macbeth’s head, so he writes a letter to his wife telling her about the prophecies. • She gets the great idea for Macbeth to _____________________.

  6. Think hard! • Macbeth feels _______________ about her plan to kill King Duncan.

  7. Think hard! • But he ends up killing him anyway, and then he feels really, really __________________.

  8. Think hard! • He even hears voices that cry “Macbeth shall ______________!”

  9. Think hard! • Lady Macbeth says ____________ “clears them of [the] deed.”

  10. Think hard! • ______________ is a new guy who shows up at Macbeth’s castle looking to speak to Duncan, but instead finds him dead. He says to “ring the alarum bells!”

  11. Think hard! • Duncan’s sons, Malcolm and Donalbain, decide to ______________ because they figure one of the men at Mac’s has murdered their father.

  12. You may or may not have caught this… • At the beginning of Act III, _______________ is having some serious suspicions about good old Macbeth.

  13. You may or may not have caught this… • Macbeth says “to be thus is nothing” and that he is wearing a “fruitless crown” because Banquo’s sons are predicted to be king. • So, naturally Macbeth sets up a murder to kill ________________________.

  14. You may or may not have caught this… • So, __________________ is dead. But his _____________ isn’t!

  15. Predict! So if Macbeth is so overwhelmed by guilt for murdering his own king that he begins hallucinating, and his wife encourages him to forget all about the murder, but he believes so whole-heartedly in the witches prophecies that he hires assassins on his own accord to murder his best friend, Banquo, and his son, Fleance, and… Also, we have evidence that though Macbeth feels guilt, he is obsessive about maintaining the throne, plus there’s big-time suspicion starting to float around his name… What happens to the Macbeths now?

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