Connector: Quotation Blast

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Connector Quotation Blast

• 4 minutes
• 5 quotes
• The Lady of the House of Love

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Macbeth Exploring Contexts

• LO To explore a range of contexts linked to
  Macbeth and make insightful and perceptive
  links to the play.

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Exam Link In your exam you will be expected to
make significant links to social, historical and
cultural contexts (A04).

• Big Picture
• Reminder of plot
• What is context?
• Information Stations
• Condensing the Contexts
• Review Context Focus

• Outcomes
• All will have explored several different contexts
  for the play.
• Most will have explored the significance of
  different contexts with the opening of the play.
• Some will analyse and evaluate how different
  contexts can help the audience understand the
  play further.

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What do I mean by context?

• Think, pair, share.
• Come up with a definition of your own about what
  context means and why it is important.

Context
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Information Stations

• You will be working in 3 groups today focussing
  on the following contextual areas
• Witchcraft and the Supernatural
• Dreams, fantasies and the sleep of reason
• The Gothic
• King James
• Elizabethan World Order
• The Position of Women
• The Gunpowder Plot

Your job will be to read and understand the
information at the various stations. You need to
remember and choose the most important parts.
Relate this information back to your group so you
can answer the questions.
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Condensing your research

• In your group, decide which 5 pieces of
  contextual information are the most important in
  relation to the plot of Macbeth
• 1)
• 2)
• 3)
• 4)
• 5)

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Context Focus Act 1 Scene 1

• Why does Shakespeare open Macbeth with the
  three witches? What would be the impact on the
  audience?
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vclG8ha2D26g

• Outcomes
• All will have explored several different contexts
  for the play.
• Most will have explored the significance of
  different contexts with the opening of the play.
• Some will analyse and evaluate how different
  contexts can help the audience understand the
  play further.

Remember to explore a Shakespearean audience and
a modern day one.
What is the impact and effect on the audience
describe how they would feel and what they might
expect from the play.
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Why does Shakespeare open Macbeth with the
three witches? What would be the impact on the
audience?
Review

• Shakespeare deliberately establishes the
  beginning of the play with a focus on the witches
  in a Gothic, barren and isolated setting. This
  would have been an extremely powerful opening for
  a contemporary audience as many at least
  questioned the existence of witches and the
  supernatural, particularly given the persecution
  of so-called witches for acts of treason
  throughout Jamess reign in Scotland.
• The appearance of the witches is woven
  throughout the narrative and creates a dark,
  eerie, foreboding atmosphere. A contemporary
  audience would have expected the witches to then
  play an integral role in the fate of Macbeths
  development as a character, whilst also evoking
  fear and terror at their presence on the stage.

• Add to the above by considering the following
• The distance between the moorland and society
• The appearance of the Witches
• Pathetic fallacy
• A sense of confusion
• The Witches use of rhyme
• Use of paradox
• Sense of disarray

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Homelearning

• Listen to the 13 minute audio clip I have emailed
  to you.
• Create a mind map based on the Witches and the
  Supernatural in Macbeth.