Worksheet on Lady Macbeth - Literature Analysis
English
Grade 6
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A worksheet analyzing Lady Macbeth's character through a direct excerpt from Shakespeare's Macbeth, focusing on literacy techniques and comprehension.
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Worksheet on Lady Macbeth - Literature Analysis
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Lady Macbeth's Soliloquy
Glamis, and Macbeth; go, get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us, and show us to be watchers. Be bright and jovial among your guests tonight. So, that, when they come to see my face, may they not see my heart. Macbeth does murder sleep: the innocent sleep, sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleeve of care, the death of each day’s life, sore labours’ bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, chief nourisher in life’s feast. Still it cried, “Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep,” the innocent sleep, sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleeve of care, ...
Come, you spirits, / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe topful / Of direst cruelty! / Make thick my blood; / Stop up the access and passage to remorse, / That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between / The effect and it! / Come to my woman’s breasts, / And take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers, / Wherever in your sightless substances / You wait on nature’s mischief! / Come, thick night, / And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, / That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, / Nor heaven peep through the blanket of dark, to cry / “Hold, hold!” / Great Glamis, worthy Cawdor, / Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter! / Thy letters have transported me beyond / This ignorant present, and I feel now / The future in the instant.
1.
Identify two literary techniques used in Lady Macbeth's speech and explain their effect.
[3 marks]2.
What does Lady Macbeth mean when she says 'Macbeth does murder sleep'?
[2 marks]3.
Which words suggest Lady Macbeth’s desire to be unfeeling and ruthless?
[2 marks]4.
What is the purpose of the line 'Great Glamis, worthy Cawdor, / Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter!'?
[2 marks]5.
Identify a caesura in the excerpt and explain its effect.
[3 marks]6.
Describe the tone of Lady Macbeth's speech. How does Shakespeare convey this tone?
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Why does Lady Macbeth call on spirits to 'unsex me here'? What does she wish to remove or gain?
[3 marks]8.
Based on this excerpt, how does Lady Macbeth’s language reflect her ambitions?
[3 marks]9.
Write a brief paragraph analyzing how Shakespeare uses imagery to depict Lady Macbeth’s character.
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