My Plan For The AP Test:

- Study 30 literary elements per week

- Review vocabulary from last semester and previous years

- Do 3 practice essays per week

- Do 3 practice multiple choice tests per week

- Organize a study session the weekend before the test to get last minute practice and help from peers

Annotated Lecture Notes: Part II

-Lady Macbeth- evil, manipulative, non-maternal
                      - barren, childless
                      - thinks she's emotionless but ultimately has guilt
                      - dominant, masculine

-Macbeth fells guilt after killing Duncan
(killing to make himself feel better?)
-Only cares about himself, not the future of the country of other people
                        - addicted to killing (like alcohol, drugs, or sex)
                        - makes him feel better

-Macbeth hasn't lost his moral sense
                       - he still knows and understand what is right and wrong
                       - "Come, see the night scarf up... that bond that keeps me pale"
                       - prays to take away human feeling
                       - wants to make his own mind comfortable, doesn't care that what he is doing is wrong

 -Macbeth is dehumanized
                       - man member of the community
                       - turns into a human killing machine
                       - doesn't seem to care that his wife has died " She should have died hereafter"
 
-Macbeth is not in denial
                       - understand what he is doing is wrong
                       - takes responsibility for his actions
                       - doesn't blame his wrong doing on the witches or his wife
                       - feels guilty, but still ok with being a killer because it  makes him feel better

-Witches are one of the main reasons for all of Macbeth's killing
                        - provided Macbeth with an ideal view of the future that he was compelled to fulfill
                        - told Macbeth the Banquo was going to get power, causing him to kill him
                        - Manipulated Macbeth to the point that he was no longer human and killed

Soliloquy Recitation- Recorded by Cali Ferrari

Annotated Lecture Notes: Part I

Macbeth Characterization:

- Tragic Hero: he has a critical flaw that contributes to his own demise
- At the beginning he has a lot going on for me, well though of by peers
- By the end he is isolated and completely destroyed
- The loss of everything signifies his demand
- He did it all to himself, the architect of his own demise

Quotes:
- And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, 
The instruments of darkness tell us truths, 
Win us with honest trifles, to betray's 
In deepest consequence. 
--Banquo, Act I, scene iii
- If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.
--Macbeth, Act I, scene iii


Murder of Duncan:

- Why does Macbeth start his career by killing Duncan?
- His ambition is driven by the want to become king
- Macbeth doesn’t question appearance of the witches, they are responding to his desires
- Wants to be a king but its fighting w/ the idea of murder and public opinion
- He knows there is going to be a price to pay, he is not in denial or and idiot
Quotes:
- Is this a dagger which I see before me, 
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee; 
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. 
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible 
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but 
A dagger of the mind, a false creation, 
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? 
I see thee yet, in form as palpable 
As this which now I draw. 
--Macbeth, Act II, scene i


Lady Macbeth:

- Keeps the evil fire flaming in Macbeth
- She’s and evil impulse and foul destruction
- No conscious, goes against her role as a woman, wife, and mother
- She animus (masculine) while Macbeth is anima (feminine)
- We can’t blame her for Macbeth he chose his actions
- After their plan of killing Duncan is complete she is consumed with regret
- She falls apart and finally kills herself
- She thought she could distance herself from the guilt of the murders but she wasn’t evil enough for that

Quotes:
- I have given suck, and know 
How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: 
I would, while it was smiling in my face, 
Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, 
And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn 
As you have done to this. 
--Lady Macbeth, Act I, scene vii
- Screw your courage to the sticking-place.
--Lady Macbeth, Act I, scene vii

- Nought's had, all's spent 
Where our desire is got without content. 
'Tis safer to be that which we destroy 
Than, by destruction, dwell in doubtful joy. 
--Lady Macbeth, Act III, scene ii



Macbeth as King:

- After he killed Duncan he gave up on being good
- He becomes a mass murderer
- He has an evil determination to not let anything or anyone stop him from having power, this is his only heroic quality even if its not admirable
- When he becomes king he is overwhelmed with fear
- Irony: his evil has made him terrified of his own self
- Macbeths and Lady Macbeths relationship falls apart after Duncan’s murder, before planned Duncan’s murder together, after he comes up w/ his own plans

Quotes:
- I have almost forgot the taste of fears; 
The time has been, my senses would have cool'd 
To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair 
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir 
As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors; 
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts 
Cannot once start me. 
--Macbeth, Act V, scene v
- 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. 
--Macbeth, Act V, scene v

Macbeth Test Answers

1. A 
2. B
3. A
4. C
5. A
6. B
7. B
8. B
9. A
10.C


1. A
2. B
3. C
4. A
5. A
6. A
7. C
8. C
9. A
10. B

Notes While Reading Macbeth

Opening Scene:
-witches- gross, ugly, beards, gossipy
             - practice witch-craft
             - symbolize 3 fates of mythology
-Banquo- friend of Macbeth
             - related to King James I
-witch foretells that Macbeth will come into power
-Macbeth gets a promotion to Cawdor
-King Duncan- King of Scotland
                    - great ruler
                    - impressed by Macbeth because of his success in battle
-witches tell Macbeth he will become king of Scotland
-Macbeth is named Cawdor (original Cawdor sentenced to death for treason)
-Macbeth will meet with the King
- Lady Macbeth- ambitious, wants power
                        - she wants the witches fortune to come true, power hungry
                        - wears the pants in the relationship, very masculine
                        - tell Macbeth to kill King Duncan to become king
                        - strong, bossy
-Macbeth doesn't want to kill the king, but does want power
-Macbeth stabs the king in his sleep
-He becomes king of Scotland
-Malcom- Duncan's son
              - flees to England
              - fears that whomever killed his father will kill him next
-Witches' prophecy- Banquo's sons will become powerful
                             - Banquo doesn't really believe them and doesn't take action like Macbeth
-Macbeth fears that the witches were right and kills Banquo to keep his sons from getting power
-Fleance- Banquo's son, survives
-Banquo's ghost haunts Macbeth at the dinner party
                   -symbolizes Macbeth's guilt
                   - Banquo was a good man and his friend
-Macbeth goes to the witches for help
-they say demons are after him
-Mcduff- Scottish nobleman
            - knows Macbeth is bad
            - wants Malcom to become King
-Lady Mcduff- opposite of Lady Macbeth
                     - kind, maternal
-Macbeth orders Macduff's wife and children to be killed
- Mcduff is devistated
- Lady Macbeth dies and Macbeth doesn't really care
             -"She should have died hereafter, signifying nothing"
-Mcduff, Malcom, and English army invade Scotland
-Lennox, Ross- Scottish nobles
                       - support English invasion
                       - hate Macbeth
-Mcduff kills Macbeth at the end of the battle
-Malcom become King of Scotland
- Witches wait in the background  

Macbeth Notes:

-Evil, dark

-Macbeth- cynical, evil, brutal

-Shakespeare's darkest play

-Written between 1605 ads 1606

-Globe Theater, Black Friar's Theater

-Macbeth- political play

-Changed history to add suspense

-Must understand background and history

-Macbeth- genius, ambitious

-Macbeth- supposed to evoke emotion
                - upset people

-Super natural forces

My Top 3 Videos

1.http://nlrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/  Nick Lycan

2.  http://ajkrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/   Drew King

3. http://kabrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/     Kelly Brickey