Next Quiz and Important Information

Next Week’s Quiz:

• Act II Vocabulary
• Act III Vocabulary
• Information from Act IV

The strange apparitions act as symbols that foreshadow the way the prophecies will be fulfilled. The armored head suggests war or rebellion, a telling image when connected to the apparition’s warning about Macduff. The bloody child obliquely refers to Macduff’s birth by cesarean section—he is not “of woman born”—attaching a clear irony to a comment that Macbeth takes at face value. The crowned child is Malcolm. He carries a tree, just as his soldiers will later carry tree branches from Birnam Wood to Dunsinane. Finally, the procession of kings reveals the future line of kings, all descended from Banquo.

                          

Notice the animals used in the spell- list them.

Dramatic irony:

By the pricking of my thumbs,

Something wicked this way comes

(Macbeth walks in- we already know from act three scene 6)

Irony

infected be the air whereon they ride, and damned all those that trust them

Points of focus:

1. Macduff’s self-defense speech(Be not offended….)

2. The list Malcolm gives for Macbeth’s evils.

3. Malcolm’s listings of his own shortcomings.(lust and greed) and how Macduff responds to them.

4. list the good qualities Malcolm gives of himself.

5. How King Edward of England cures the sick- political allusion- Shakespeare honoring the English King to please King James who attends the play) as opposed to Macbeth who ails his people. (juxtaposition)

6. what is a man- Malcolm and Macduff discuss what is a man- compare to Lady Macbeth’s what is a man.