MACBETH: Personification
As part of our Year 8 Macbeth Study, we’re looking, in acute detail, at some small excerpts from the main play. We’re putting the microscope on the language of Shakespeare and what this might reveal. My proposition with this presentation is that Shakespeare has Macbeth use personification to reveal the extent to which Macbeth is blaming external forces for the choices he is about to make.
The text of Macbeth
Should you miss a lesson where the play is read, or if you would like to go back and re-read sections of the play, you are encouraged to use these two sources. There is a No Fear Shakespeare version of the play online which includes a somewhat over-simplified modern English version and then there’s a great Shakespeare resource that offers you an annotated complete text.
Metre in poetry and Shakespeare’s blank verse
Today we set up our books properly and put some of the work we’ve been doing on metre into action. We’re raring to go on our study of Macbeth, but this preliminary work is going to make literary scholars of us all!
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