Transcript Macbeth Tragedy Presentation

QUICK WRITE
What do people value in life?
What are people willing to do for what
they value?
ANALYSIS
 Read the following lines.
 Consider as you read and
reread the lines:
 What does this person
look like?
 What is this person
doing?
 What is your
interpretation of the
comments?
 What has caused this
person to make these
comments?
Mood
Imagery
Figurative Language
Syntax
Theme
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
TRAGEDY
Define tragedy.
In the case of two similar situations what
might make one a tragedy and the other
not a tragedy? Explain using a specific
example.
What emotions does tragedy evoke in the
witnesses (hear, see, read, etc.)?
TRAGEDY DEFINED
a lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or
affair; calamity; disaster: the tragedy of
war.
A lamentable element of drama, of
literature generally, or of life.
TRAGEDY
a dramatic composition, often in verse,
dealing with a serious or somber theme,
typically that of a great person destined
through a flaw of character or conflict
with some overpowering force, as fate or
society, to downfall or destruction.
TRAGEDY
any literary composition, as a novel,
dealing with a somber theme carried to a
tragic conclusion.
TRAGEDY
 Tragedy is the “imitation of an action” (mimesis)
according to “the law of probability or
necessity.” Aristotle indicates that the medium of
tragedy is drama, not narrative; tragedy “shows”
rather than “tells.” According to Aristotle, tragedy
is higher and more philosophical than history
because history simply relates what has happened
while tragedy dramatizes what may happen, “what
is possible according to the law of probability or
necessity.” History thus deals with the particular,
and tragedy with the universal. Events that have
happened may be due to accident or coincidence;
they may be particular to a specific situation and
not be part of a clear cause-and-effect chain.
TRAGEDY CONT.
 Therefore they have little relevance for others.
Tragedy, however, is rooted in the fundamental
order of the universe; it creates a cause-and-effect
chain that clearly reveals what may happen at any
time or place because that is the way the world
operates. Tragedy therefore arouses not only pity
but also fear, because the audience can envision
themselves within this cause-and-effect chain.
TRAGIC HERO
Potential for greatness-doomed to fail
The tragic hero will most effectively
evoke both our pity and terror if he is
neither thoroughly good nor thoroughly
evil but a combination of both.
TRAGIC HEROS ARE
Born into nobility
Responsible for own fate
Endowed with a tragic flaw
DOOMED to make a serious error in
judgment
TRAGIC HEROES
EVENTUALLY
FALL from great heights or high esteem
Realize they have made an irreversible
mistake
Faces and accepts death with honor
TRAGIC death
TRAGIC HERO & AUDIENCE
THE AUDIENCE IS AFFECTED BY
PITY and/or FEAR
FREYTAG’S PYRAMID
The structure of tragedy.
ARISTOTLE’S SIX ELEMENTS
OF TRAGEDY
Plot
Character
Diction
Music
Thought
Spectacle
PLOT
Events rather than theme
Plot-unity
Each action should initiate the next rather
than stand alone
Must be involved in conflict that has a
pattern of entanglement
Rising action-crisis-climax-falling action with
resolution
CHARACTER
Person or personality
Combination of character and thought
gives rise to plot
THOUGHT
Theme, argument and overall meaning
DICTION
The word choices made by the playwright
The enunciation of the actors delivering
the lines
MUSIC
The rhythm of speeches and the rhythm
of melody that serve to embellish tragedy.
SPECTACLE
Scenery
Costumes
Special effects
MACBETH: CHARACTER
ANALYSIS
As you read keep notes on Macbeth’s
character.
CONSIDER:
A character map
Chart of changes
MACBETH: SETTING
Some critics note Shakespeare’s use of
setting over the storyline itself.
Keep track of the setting/atmosphere
Note any symbolism/metaphors
MACBETH ANALYSIS
http://www.criticalthinking.eu/Rationale
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RESOURCES
http://www.allwords.com/word-tragic%20hero.html
Arnott, Peter. The Theater in Its Time. Little Brown and
Company: Boston. 1981. Print.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/shakesp
eare_scenes/macbeth_extract2_4.shtml
http://www.cnr.edu/home/bmcmanus/poetics.html
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/tragedy.html
Discussion Questions for Text
Supplemental readings
Shakespeare’s Macbeth
What did you find interesting?
Look at list of findings. Watch for how
many Shakespeare works into the play.
We will read excerpts of Holinshed’s
Chronicles prior to Act 3 and Act 4
Discussion Questions for Text
Supplemental readings
Reading Shakespeare’s Language
What are your thoughts, reactions
questions?
Did you look up any words?
What advice is given in these pages for
you to better understand and work
through the challenge of the language?
Discussion Questions for Text
Supplemental readings
An Introduction to this Text
What are your thoughts, reactions,
questions? Anything strike you as
interesting?