The call is memorization this time, so these are once again more study guides and discussion starters. I do welcome any comments you choose to post, however.
1. Act 3 scene 5 is one that linguists and scholars claim was not written by Shakespeare. Looking at the content (both in itself and in relationship to the preceding scenes) and the language (that's harder, I know), what justification can you make for that opinion?
2. 3,6 is a barometer scene, much like some toward the end of Act 1, and Banquo's soliloquy to begin Act 3. How would we know that Lennox is speaking opinions that are more generalized in Scotland? What do you anticipate may happen as a result of these feelings?
3. Act 4, 1 is a especially memorable one which brings the witches and Macbeth back together, and foregrounds the supernatural more than anywhere else except perhaps the banquet scene. Enjoy imagining how you would direct it, and observe the outcome for the way Macbeth is affected by the events that have just transpired and how he proposes to act differently and independently of the prophecies the apparitions offer him.
4. The final scene for next time is another bloody one. Ross's warning seems to come too late. But we'll see how Polanski changes Ross's role in the scene that makes the ethical standards of Scotland even more suspect.
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