Macbeth

By William Shakespeare

1. No
2. No
3. No
4. Yes
5. No
6. No

Comprehension

1.

1 Line 5-7: unsex me here... direst cruelty – Feminity

2 Line 7-11: Make thick my blood… Th‘ effect and it – Remorse

3 Line 11-14: Come to woman’s beast... nature’s mischief – Maternal instinct

2.

He wanted it to hide her in dark smoke of hell.

3.

She adviced him to behave friendly but give her all the conrol and kingsihp.

Analysis

1. The raven is hoarse from saying again and again that King Duncan must die. When Lady Macbeth heard
that King Duncan was coming for the night, she imagined a raven under her battlements, foretelling the
death of the King.

2. Peronification: Heaven peep

Darkness is preseented as stronger power.

4. She told him to be carefull with face expression, because if the husbend change it, it will mean that he
fears.

5. Serpent is actually very dangerous animal and maybe endowed with insidiousness. Lady Macbeth
adviced her husband to bahave the same but show himself as an innoncent flower.

6. She is afraid that direct language will make Macbeth refuse to act.
 The Sound and the Fury
Comprehencion

1. Yes, he believed.
2. Because their enemy had more power.
3. Because he is full of horrors.
4. He was thinking that he was more sensitive but all what is happened made him full of horrors.
5. Now he sees no sense of le, thinking that life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing.

Analysis

1. Personification: famine and ague (fever)

2. taste of fear

His life was full of horror things. Just as we can get enough of food, so we can get enough and horror.

3. If I were a director I would choose the interpretation, which express sympathetic. Macbeth was not
innocent so much so it would look better if he was worried about his wife at least.

4. It can be both because expiration of time can make him as irritated as weary as well.

5. brief candle – short

Walking shadow – insubstantial

Poor player – undignified

Tale told by an idiot – meaningless

6. Line 1-8 – defiant, confidant,

Line 10-17 – nostalgic, philosophical,

Line 19-30 – reflective, morbid, sombre, hesitant

Julius Creaser
Pre-reading Exercises

1. It is quite difficult to say how the crowed was feeling. He was a great emperor and established the
empire but he also had many enemies as around people with high status as among the crowd. But I think
people were angry and scared because of his assassination.
Post-Reading Exercises

1. He and his conspirators wanted to take the power.

2. He said that he saved the empire and all the people there.
3. He convinced them
4. 15-20 lines
5. People believed him and call him a new ruler.
6. He showed the toughts of Brut and it was dramatic that he mentioned Ceaser as his friend, who he
killed.

Post-Reading Exercises

1. He called the people his friends.

2. He expresses open condemnation.
3. He was tried to be sincere and convince people that he did right.
4. He repeats that Brut thinks Creaser was ambitious.
5. Antony was more effective because he was softer with the crowd.
6. He was full of grief
7. He doesnt say that it is clear true.

1.

A – 17-19 lines

C – 7-8 lines

D – 6-7 lines

E – 17-18 lines

2. He mentioned the document in which Ceaser leaved his will.

3. It made them exited

4. Maybe Sheakspeare changed this role and one of other heroes was talking about will