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**__ Act One: Journal Response Questions: __** 1. Who says, “Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair” and what does it mean? (Scene 1) From what I see I think that this means that what is fair can be horrible and bad. They also mean that sometime bad horrible things can also be fair things.

 2. What is the significance of Macbeth’s line: “So foul and fair a day I have not seen? (Scene 3) I think he refers to the atmosphere of the place looks very good while the sisters are the opposite. This also gives Macbeth and the witches a relationship of which they seem like they are thinking about the same things and feel the same way about certain things.

 3. What does Banquo mean when he says, “The instruments of darkness tell us truths,win us with honest trifles, only to betray’s in deepest consequence”? (Scene 3) This means that the witches are evil and are able to mess with the mind of an honest and good person and turn him against his virtues and what he believed in. 4. What reaction does Macbeth have when King Duncan names his eldest son Malcolm as the Prince of Cumberland? (Scene 4) I think that Macbeth did not like the idea of the Prince of Cumberland becoming the next in line to the throne as what the witches had said had already gone into his head. Mac beth praised him for his good choice but backed out of the conversation fast showing that he was not really glad that the prince had gotten it.  5. Lady Macbeth describes her husband’s character: “Yet do I fear he is too full o’ the milk of human kindness…” What does she mean? (Scene 5) She means that she thinks that her husband is too kind and no mean or cruel enough to carry out something "unhumanlike. 6. Read carefully Lady Macbeth’s speech “Come you spirits…” Does it suggest a difference between Macbeth and his wife? (Scene 5)  7. Read carefully Lady Macbeth’s speech “I have given suck…” What does this say about Lady Macbeth’s character? (Scene 7) This shows that she is a cruel, motivated and most importantly determined person to do what she could for what she wanted.  8. What does Macbeth say which suggests he has second thought about murdering Duncan? (Scene 7)  9. The theme that ‘appearances are deceptive’ is recurring throughout this Act. Find four quotations which broach this theme (include the Act, Scene and Line numbers). <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> "upon her skinny lips you should be women" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> "and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so" (act 1 scene 3 line 44) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> "what bloody man is that? He can report as seemth by this plight, of the revolt the newest state." (act 1 scene 2 line 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> " the Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict, Till Bellona's bridegroom, lapped in proof, conffrontedgim with self comparisons, point to point religion to religion" (act 1 scene 2 line 57) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> " This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">10. Describe Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s relationship after reading Act 1. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">I think that after this Macbeth has become Lady Macbeth's puppet and does everything and anything for her. Therefore she has become very controlling and the head of the family.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">**__ Act 2 Journal Response Questions __**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">1. How does Shakespeare contrast the characters of Banquo and Macbeth in this scene? (Scene 1)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Banquo and Macbeth due to how they react differently towards what the witches said. Macbeth is easily influenced and gets power hungry very easily whereas Banquo does not go power hungry and just lets nature take its course. It can be easily seen that Macbeth is influenced by what the witches had said. Shakespeare uses Macbeth to lie through his teeth showing that he is on his way to being evil and that Macbeth is turning into something Banquo would never turn into. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">2. Compare Lady Macbeth’s opening comments in this scene to Macbeth’s soliloquy. What can you say about the difference between the two characters? (Scene 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">This shows the difference in Lady Macbeth's personality and Macbeth. You can see that she is fully turned into something evil while Macbeth has not fully turned into evil and and is something in between. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"> 3. Sleep is a very important image in the play. What is the significance of Macbeth saying, ‘Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more: Macbeth does murder sleep’? (Scene 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">Sleep is a motif throughout the play and shows how Macbeth is still halfway human and is not fully evil yet. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">4. Why is it ironic that Macduff should say to Lady Macbeth, “O gentle lady/ ‘Tis not for you to hear what I can speak’? (Scene 3)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> It contains dramatic irony as Lady Macbeth was the one who planned all this and that the audience knows something the characters don't.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">5. What is significant about the description of Duncan’s horses eating each other? (Scene 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">As in Shakespearean time there is a natural balance of things. As Macbeth destroyed one of these rules it showed that it is failing and that chaos is about to come.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">** Act 3 Journal Questions ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"> 1. What does Banquo say at the beginning of this scene which suggests that he is suspicious of Macbeth? (Scene 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">"Thou played'st most foully for't; yet it was all said" This means that he feels that Macbeth has done something foul to get what he wanted. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"> 2. What does Macbeth mean when he says, “We have scorched the snake, not killed it”? (Scene 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Macbeth means by this that he has not killed everyone that is a threat to the throne. Therefore he feels anxious/ uncertain that he has not fully secured the throne. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">3. What does Macbeth mean when he says, “Things bad begun, make strong themselves by ill.” (Scene 2). <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">He means that bad things have happened and that they make themselves strong by making others weak. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"> 4. Why do you think Macbeth sees the ghost of Banquo? In terms of the theme of this play, why is this apparition important? (Scene 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">Macbeth sees the ghost of Banquo due to the guilt he feels. He also sees him due to the fact that the assasins did not kill both Banquo and Fleance and just Banquo. He sees the Ghost of Banquo which represents how Fleance might find out that he was the one behind this killing. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"> 5. Why does Hecate look angry? (Scene 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"> She is angry with the rest of the witches for telling a prophecy to Macbeth without involving her. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"> 6. Read Lennox’s speech. Is he suspicious of Macbeth? (Scene 6) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">Yes he is suspicious of Macbeth.


 * __<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Act 4 Journal Questions __**

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> 1. Why does Macbeth seek out the witches? (Scene 1)

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">He is worried about the future and how fleance has escaped. Macbeth is also worried about losing the throne as he did not manage to kill fleance.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> 2. What three warnings do the apparitions give Macbeth? (Scene 1)

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">-Beware of Macduff

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">-No man of woman born shall harm Macbeth

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">-Only when the Birnam woods comes to Dunsinane

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> 3. Why has Macduff fled to England? (Scene 1)

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">He is seeking assistance from King Edward to overthrow Macbeth. He needs an army to do this and he is also afraid of Macbeth.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> 4. Why does Malcolm say he doesn’t have what it takes to be king? (Scene 3)

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">-He claims that his sexual desire is limitless and that his own vices are worse than Macbeth.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> 5. How does Macduff react to the news that his wife, children and servants have been slaughtered? (Scene 3)

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">He is depressed and promises to have his revenge against Macbeth. He blames himself as well as Macbeth and this increases his hate towards Macbeth and also feels guilty.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Lady Macbeth is referring to the blood on her hands which is a figure of speech which shows that she is guilty. She has changed as she seems to be very confident, hard and strong. In act 5 she changed a lot. She has changed into a person who feels very guilty at what she has done. Lady Macbeth as a character seems very mentally unsound and seems that she does is not seem as strong as she used to be. **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">In scene 2 what are some of the images used to describe Macbeth? ** <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">It is seen that Macbeth is being called a tyrant and a dwarfish thief wearing a giant’s belt. This shows that he is not fit to be king. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Malcolm cut down the trees so as to camouflage his army. He cut down the trees in Birnam wood to camouflage them. This was prophesised by the witches. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Macbeth seems very numb because of the emotions he is feeling. It seems that he is so sad that he is numb. He is disillusioned and feels that life is pointless and that it has no purpose. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">He feels that no human person will be able to kill him as the witches prophesized that no man born from a woman can harm him. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">That Lady Macbeth killed herself.
 * __<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Act 5 Journal Questions __**
 * 1) **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Read Lady Macbeth’s speech: ‘Out damn spot! Out I say!” What is Lady Macbeth talking about? How has her character changed from her last appearance in the play? **
 * 1) **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">What type of camouflage does Malcolm suggest they use in their attack on Dunsinane castle? How does this relate the prophecy of the apparition? **
 * 1) **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">How does Macbeth react to this wife’s death? **
 * 1) **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Macbeth is confident in his battle with young Siward. Why does he think he shall not be killed? **
 * 1) **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Malcolm calls Macbeth ‘this dead butcher’ and Lady Macbeth ‘his fiendlike Queen’. How does Malcolm say that Lady Macbeth died? **