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Name: __________________________________ Date: ___________________ Period: ______ Themes Evidence and Analysis Directions: A theme is a concept or idea that an author explores in a literary work. For each theme, collect 5-6 details from Macbeth (such as specific plot points, symbols, or quotes) that the author uses to explore that theme and enter them in the Evidence section of the table. Next, use the evidence you’ve collected to write a Theme Description that explains the role of the theme in Macbeth. We have read the entire play and had access to multiple video versions (staged, feature film, WWII setting…). You should include at one paragraph the compares and contrasts the film versions to the actual written play. I have completed the first theme as an example. Pick one specific scene from the film to compare to the written play for this paragraph. Your Theme Description should be 1-3 paragraphs. Here are some questions to consider as you write each Theme Description: · How do the ideas or actions of the main characters reflect different aspects of the theme? · Does the theme develop or change over the course of Macbeth? If so, how? · If your evidence includes symbols, explain how the author uses those symbols to explore the theme. · If your evidence includes specific quotes from the text, explain how those quotes provide examples of how the theme applies to Macbeth? · How do specific scenes from the film versions compare to the original text? · Do different interpretations of the play enhance or degrade any of these themes? If so, how? Ambition Evidence 1. And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betrays In deepest consequence. Act 1 Scene 3 2. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts! …And take my milk for gall. Act 1 Scene 5 3. “another quote here” 4. “another quote here” 5. “another quote here” 6. “another quote here” Theme Description Macbeth is a play about ambition run amok. The weird sisters' prophecies spur both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to try to fulfill their ambitions, but the witches never make Macbeth, or his wife do anything. Macbeth and his wife act on their own to fulfill their deepest desires. Macbeth, a good general and, by all accounts before the action of the play, a good man, allows his ambition to overwhelm him and becomes a murdering, paranoid maniac. Lady Macbeth, once she begins to put into actions the once-hidden thoughts of her mind, is crushed by guilt. Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth want to be great and powerful and sacrifice their morals to achieve that goal. By contrasting these two characters with others in the play, such as Banquo, Duncan, and Macduff, who also want to be great leaders but refuse to allow ambition to come before honor, Macbeth shows how naked ambition, freed from any sort of moral or social conscience, ultimately takes over every other characteristic of a person. Unchecked ambition, Macbeth suggests, can never be fulfilled, and therefore quickly grows into a monster that will destroy anyone who gives into it. In the PBS film version (WWII) the actress that plays Lady Macbeth truly conveys ambition that has spun out of control. Despite the change in setting and time period, Act 1 Scene 5 provides the audience with a true spectacle of ambition laced with terror. Lady Macbeth reads the letter while descending in an elevator. This actually amplifies the idea of her and Macbeth’s literal descent into madness. What makes this even better is the fact that this is first time we even see her character! Fate Evidence 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Theme Description Violence Evidence 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Theme Description Nature and the Unnatural Evidence 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Theme Description Manhood Evidence 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Theme Description 2