Worksheet on Macbeth - Characters: Macbeth
English
Grade 8
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A worksheet focused on Macbeth's character through analysis of key textual excerpts from Shakespeare's play, designed for Grade 8 students.
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Analyzing Macbeth's Soliloquy
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.
Thou marshall’st me the way that I was going;
And such an instrument I was to use.
Mine eyes are made the fools of sight,
For sane and not but for the mind,
What’s there? The dagger?
The dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I will proceed no further in this business:
He that hath a name
Lives in the rank of fear, and I will not.
Methinks I hear a voice: I cannot tell
Whether it is a dream or a waking dream,
But sure it is a dagger of the mind,
And nothing else. If it be not, then I see thee still,
And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Which was not so before. There’s no such thing:
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes. Now o’er the one halfworld
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtain’d sleep; witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate’s offerings, and wither’d murder,
Alarum’d by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl’s his watch, thus with his stealthy pace,
With Tarquin’s ravishing strides, towards his design
Moves like a ghost.
Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
And take the present horror from the time,
Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
1.
Identify at least two literary devices used in this soliloquy and explain their effect.
[3 marks]2.
What does the 'dagger' symbolize in Macbeth’s speech?
[2 marks]3.
Describe the mood created by the imagery in this extract.
[2 marks]4.
Explain the significance of Macbeth’s line: 'I will proceed no further in this business'. What does it reveal about his character?
[3 marks]5.
Identify and explain the meaning of the phrase: 'Witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate’s offerings.'
[3 marks]6.
Based on this extract, how does Shakespeare use imagery to convey Macbeth's mental state?
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Creative Writing Prompt
Imagine you are Macbeth just after seeing the hallucinating dagger. Write a monologue from his perspective, expressing his inner thoughts and feelings. Use descriptive language and imagery to convey his mental state.
1.
Write a monologue from Macbeth's point of view, capturing his emotions and thoughts as he prepares to commit the murder.
2.
Include a checklist of elements to incorporate: (a) vivid imagery, (b) emotional expression, (c) supernatural references, (d) internal conflict.
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