Macbeth 4.1

Do now: Discuss the meaning of the quote with your group. Macbeth: “False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” (2-3 min)

Objectives:

• analyze the dagger soliloquy for allusion (Hecate, Murder, wolves, King Tarquin)
• examine how Macbeth’s imagination triggers mental torment
• Identify biblical allusions in Macbeth

Agenda:

1. do now
2. Dagger soliloquy: Focused annotations (15 minutes):
1. allusions to Hecate, Murder (personified), wolf, King Tarquin-- what effect does this produce?
2. What textual evidence alerts us to the fact that Macbeth knows this is an illusion?  Why does he allow it to affect him so much?
3. What shatters his illusion? How could this be significant?
3. Table groups: “Whence is that knocking?”  (15 minutes)
1. What is the mental state of both Lady Mac and Macbeth after the murder?
2. What is the importance of the following: “Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house/ ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor/ Shall sleep no more; Macbeth shall sleep no more.”

4. Biblical allusions: Read through the example for Act 2 scenes 1 and 2.  In socrative: why do you think Shakespeare includes these allusions? What effect does it produce?  (note: most of Shakespeare’s audience would recognize these allusions) (10 minutes)

5. Summarizer

HW: Read Act 2.3 and do 1 entry for imagery log