MACBETH by William Shakespeare

1. What do you know about the autor?

2. When and where is the story set?
3. What is the story about? Summarise the plot.
4. Choose a character and describe him/her. Mention its
importance in the play, what happens to this character?
What is the fortune of this character at the end of the
novel?
5. Who is your favourite character? Describe him/her. (the
same as in 4.)
6. How does the story end? Do you like the end? Would
you change it? How?
7. What is the message or moral of the story?
8. Did you like reading this story?

Answer

1. William Shakespeare was a famous writer and poet of

XVIth and XVIIth century. He lived when Elizabeth I and
Jacob I reigned in England. Shakespeare was author by
differents plays: Macbeth, Romeo and Julieta, Hamlet,
Julio Cesar and other. After of live some year in London,
Shakespeare came back at Stratford-upon-Avon, his
hometowm. Finally, he died in May of 1616. He was
contemporary to authors of the Spanish Golden Age.
2. The story was set in Scotland when the King Duncan
reigned there. This kingdom was in war opposite to the
 king of Norway. The Scottish army won this war, where
Macbeth participated like a soldier. The time when
happens the story is not precise but, perhaps, it could
happen in Modern Age.
3. The story is about a Scottish soldier called Macbeth.
After he won the war opposite to Norway, Macbeth had
a meeting with three witches. They said him that he
going to be general and, after, king of Scotland. From
that moment, Macbeth started his story toward the
Scottish throne.