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The Four Stages of Temptation: Seen in Macbeth

The Four Stages of Temptation: Seen in Macbeth. Think of a time you experienced temptation…. What were you tempted to do? What was the process leading up to you succumbing/not succumbing to that temptation? Did you have internal struggles? Experience regret? Etc.

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The Four Stages of Temptation: Seen in Macbeth

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  1. The Four Stages of Temptation: Seen in Macbeth

  2. Think of a time you experienced temptation… • What were you tempted to do? • What was the process leading up to you succumbing/not succumbing to that temptation? Did you have internal struggles? Experience regret? Etc. • What was the outcome of your decision?

  3. Temptation • How can we define it? • Is it always bad? • Can there be good temptation? • Where do we draw the line between temptation and ambition?

  4. Temptation in Macbeth… “In the moral understanding of Shakespeare’s time, several stages were identified in the progress of sin…” As seen in, “Launching the Tragedy of Macbeth: Temptation, Deliberation and Consent in Act I” by Roland Mushat Frye, in Huntington Library Quarterly

  5. Stage One: Solicitation • “The first [stage] was suggestion or solicitation, the presentation of the possibility of committing some evil, and the idea may come uninvited, as it does to Macbeth.”

  6. Stage Two: Consideration • “In the second stage, the proffered evil is considered and appraised and may be rejected, or the consideration may give way to delectation, and enjoyment of the possibility, a mental playing with it and savoring of it. It may still be rejected, of course, but the more the delectation is indulged, the more likely it will be to pass to the third stage…”

  7. Stage Three: Consent • When the character/person consents to the temptation and plans to follow through with the tempatation. • “If the consent is firm, it moves to the fourth and final stage…”

  8. Stage Four: Action • Following through with a plan; succumbing to the temptation. • “Shakespeare shows Macbeth moving, often with painful vacillation and great distress, through the first three stages in act one, the fourth in act two, and thereafter into the psychic anguish and isolation of the last acts…”

  9. Your Turn • With a partner, look for specific textual evidence of each stage of temptation. • You can split the work up, or look together.

  10. Time Permitting… • True or False: Temptation can be good if it is for the good of society.

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