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Outcome: Pupils will begin to analyse Act 5 Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Setting the Scene: Act 5 Scene 1 • Lady Macbeth persuades her husband to murder King Duncan. • Then, to cover his tracks and protect his throne, Macbeth has Banquo murdered. • He then attempts to have Macduff killed but only manages to kill his family. • Lady Macbeth, in this scene, dreams about her part in these crimes. • Act 5 Scene 1 is known as the “sleepwalking” scene. Act 5, Scene 1 Macbeth’s castle Side room Dunsinane, an ante-room in the castle. Enter a Doctor of Physic and a Waiting-Gentlewoman Doctor Physic=medicine. You could also have a Dr of the Church see I have two nights watched with you, but can perceive no truth in your report. When was it she last walked? Gentlewoman One of Lady M’s servants Since his majesty went into the field, I have seen her rise from her bed, throw her night-gown upon her, unlock her closet, take forth paper, fold it, write upon't, read it, afterwards seal it, and again sleepwalked Since Macbeth went to the battlefield Closet=small private room for study/prayer return to bed; yet all this while in a most fast sleep. Target Question Why is LM writing letters in her sleep? Fast asleep Where have we seen her with a letter before? Disturbance in her character Doctor The actions of someone awake A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep, and do the effects of watching! In this slumbery agitation, besides her walking and other actual performances, what, at any time, have you heard her say? Sleep walking Has she said anything in her sleep? Gentlewoman She has said things I won’t repeat That, sir, which I will not report after her. Doctor It is right that you should You may to me: and 'tis most meet you should. Gentlewoman I’m saying nothing as I have no witnesses to back me up. Neither to you nor any one; having no witness to confirm my speech. A small light Enter LADY MACBETH, with a taper Look Gentlewoman This is exactly how she looks. Lo you, here she comes! This is her very guise; and, upon my life, fast asleep. Observe her; stand close. Doctor How did she get that light? How came she by that light? Gentlewoman Why, it stood by her: she has light by her continually; 'tis her command. Target Question: In Act 1 Scene 5, Lady Macbeth calls on “thick night” to cover the murder. Why does she now “continually” want light? Stood by her bed. She has commanded that she always has light. Doctor You see, her eyes are open. Gentlewoman She can’t what is happening around her, where she is. Ay, but their sense is shut. Doctor What is it she does now? Look, how she rubs her hands. Gentlewoman Familiar It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands: I have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour. Target Question: Why is Lady M Washing her hands in her sleep? To seem like she’s washing her hands. Still, here’s a spot of bloodshe can’t get it all off. Lady Macbeth Yet here's a spot. Doctor Hark! she speaks: I will set down what comes from her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly. Target Question: In this picture why is the blood only dripping in the shadow? Listen Write down To help my memory Cursed, destined to go to hell. Lady Macbeth’s next line is: Out, damned spot! out, I say!— Imagine you are an actress playing LM. What would your EVA be like when saying these lines? Copy out the quotation and complete these sentences: 1. Her expression should be…............because….............. 2. The actresses’ voice would be …..............since…......... 3. Her actions……..........For the reason that…….............. Lady Macbeth Time to do what? An old word used to show disgust with, somebody. Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why, A soldier and scared!then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my Who is she talking to? lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?--Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him. Target Question: Who is the old man? We’ve no need to be scared who knows that we killed Duncan? Nobody can question our actions-why? notice Doctor Do you mark that? Lady Macbeth Thane of Fife=Macduff. His wife and family were murdered by Macbeth. The thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?-What, will these hands ne'er be clean?--No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting. spoil Target Question: How would the doctor say these lines to the gentlewoman? Doctor Go away, you’ve heard something you shouldn’t. Go to, go to; you have known what you should not. She has said something she shouldn’t. Gentlewoman She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of that: heaven knows what she has known. God knows her crimes. Target Question: Who last used heaven and hell imagery? Target Question: Why won’t the perfumes wash away the smell? Lady Macbeth Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh! She lets out a series of moans. Arabia (in the Middle East) was famous in Shakespeare’s time for exotic perfumes Painfully heavy/full Doctor What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged. To charge a glass means to fill it up Target Questions: What does the doctor mean when he says her heart is full? Task What does this picture have to do with Lady Macbeth? Gentlewoman Chest I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the dignity of the whole body. Worth/value Target Questions: Why doesn’t the Gentlewoman want Lady Macbeth’s heart? The Four Humours=moods • Doctors in Shakespeare’s time thought that the human body was filled with four basic substances, called humours. • If they were balanced you were healthy. • If they were unbalanced (you had too much or two little of one of them) they could make you sick and affect your personality. • The four humours were called: – – – – Black bile, made you melancholy sad. Yellow bile, made you angry and bad tempered. Phlegm, made you unemotional and calm. Blood, made you brave and amorous. If you had too much of this doctors would bleed you with leeches!!! What kind of person are you? Which humour have you got too much of? Diagnosis Murderer • The four humours were called: – – – – Black bile, made you melancholy sad. Yellow bile, made you angry and bad tempered. Phlegm, made you unemotional and calm. Blood, made you brave and amorous. If you had too much of this doctors would bleed you with leeches!!! • If you were the Doctor of Physic investigating Lady Macbeth’s illness, which of these “humours” would you diagnose as her problem? What is your evidence? What has this picture got to do with the scenes we are studying? What about this one? He’s interested Doctor Well, well, well,-- Gentlewoman I pray to God it is well. Pray God it be, sir. She takes the word “well” to mean “good/healthy”. Metaphor, guilt as a disease. Doctor My experience or skill. This disease is beyond my practise: yet I have known those which have walked in their sleep who have died holily in their beds. But Like saints Target Question: Why does the Dr say this? She is reliving the events after the murder. Lady Macbeth Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so pale.--I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he cannot come out on's grave. Of his Doctor Even so? Is that right? What part of the play is she reliving here? Lady Macbeth To bed, to bed! there's knocking at the gate: come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What's done cannot be undone.--To bed, to bed, to bed! Exit Target Question: What can’t be undone? After the murder of Duncan, Macduff arrives and knocks the porter of Macbeth’s castle up Doctor Will she go now to bed? Gentlewoman Directly. Straight there, straight away amongst people Horrible rumours are spreading. Doctor Unnatural actions Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets: Blood will have blood Metaphor, guilt as a disease Personificationpillows with human qualities Target Question: What “foul whisperings” does he mean? Task - Metaphor Mapping Why is guilt like a disease? GUILT DISEASE A priest, bishop etc in the service of God. Doctor More needs she the divine than the physician. God, God forgive us all! Target Question: Why does Lady Macbeth need a priest rather than a doctor? Remove anything she could use to hurt herself Look after her; Remove from her the means of all annoyance, And still keep eyes upon her. So, good night: My mind she has mated, and amazed my sight. Beaten-checkmated, I think, but dare not speak. winning move in chess Gentlewoman Good night, good doctor. Exeunt Target Question: Why won’t he speak? The Doctor says “Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles” What is “unnatural” in the play?