Macbeth: Lady Macbeth - Character and Nature
English
Year 9
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~14 mins
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A comprehension worksheet exploring Lady Macbeth's character through her interactions with themes of Nature and Environment, including a substantial extract from Shakespeare's Macbeth.
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Macbeth: Lady Macbeth - Character and Nature
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Grade Year 9
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Lady Macbeth's Ambition and the Natural World
The following is an excerpt from Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 5, where Lady Macbeth reflects on her ambitions and relates them to the natural order:
"Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor! / The greatest is behind. / Thanks for your pains. / Do you not hope your children shall be kings, / When those that gave the thrones to you / Have died, even now? / And I, that have unsex’d myself here, / To make my mind so firm / That I can bear the ‘knife’ to our ‘gentle’ Duncan, / Displacing nature’s harmony / With my own fierce, unnatural will? / 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’s soft kindness / Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between / The effect and it!"
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What does Lady Macbeth mean when she says she wants to be 'unsex'd'? How does this relate to her desire to commit murder?
[2 marks]2.
Identify and explain the use of a metaphor in Lady Macbeth’s speech that relates to nature or the environment.
[2 marks]3.
How does Lady Macbeth’s invocation of spirits reflect her desire to manipulate the natural order?
[2 marks]4.
Identify one literary technique used in this extract and explain its effect.
[2 marks]5.
In what way does Lady Macbeth compare her ambitions to a natural or environmental phenomenon?
[2 marks]6.
Describe how Lady Macbeth’s language suggests she perceives her own relationship with nature and the environment.
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Creative Writing: Reimagining Lady Macbeth’s Soliloquy
Imagine Lady Macbeth is speaking about her ambitions using the language of nature and the environment. Write a monologue of approximately 20 lines where she expresses her desire to dominate or reshape her natural surroundings to achieve her goals.
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Check List for Creative Writing:
- Use vivid natural imagery.
- Convey Lady Macbeth’s ambition.
- Show her desire to control or distort nature.
- Include at least three different natural elements.
- Maintain an academic tone suitable for Year 9 students.
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