My annotations:
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Passage analyzed:
BANQUO That, trusted home, might yet enkindle
You unto the crown, besides the Thane of Cawdor.
But ‘tis strange. And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with
Honest trifles, to betray ’s 5
In deepest consequence –
Cousins, a word, I pray you. [They step aside.]
MACBETH [aside] Two truths are told as happy prologues to the
Swelling act of the imperial theme. – I thank you, gentlemen.
[Aside.] This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, 10
Cannot be good. If ill, why hath it given me earnest of
Success commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor.
If good, why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid
Image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart
Knock at my ribs against the use of nature? Present fears 15
Are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose
Murder yet is but fantastical, shakes so my single state of
Man that function is smothered in surmise, and nothing is
But what is not.
BANQUO Look how our partner’s rapt. 20
MACBETH [aside] If chance will have me king, why, chance may
Crown me
Without my stir.
BANQUO New honors come upon him, like our strange
New garments, cleave not to their mold but with the aid of use. 25
MACBETH [aside] Come what come may, time and the hour runs
Through the roughest day.
BANQUO Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure.
MACBETH Give me your favor. My dull brain was wrought with things
Forgotten. Kind gentlemen, your pains are registered where 30
Every day I turn the leaf to read them. Let us toward the king.
[Aside to Banquo] Think upon what hath chanced, and at more time,
The interim having weighed it, let us speak our free hearts each
To other.
BANQUO Very gladly. 35
MACBETH Till then enough. – Come, friends.
They exit.
How does the structure of this text provide clarity and context for the reader?
What major themes does this extract reveal, and how does it do so?
Criterion:
A -Knowledge and Understanding of the Text and Extract:7
B -Understanding of the Use and Effects of Literary Features:6
C -Organization:4
D -Language:3
Criterion Reasoning:
A- While i was rather knowledgeable of Macbeth as a whole, i was shaky of many details regarding the context within which Shakespeare wrote Macbeth. I think i developed the surrounding context within which Shakespeare wrote relatively well but nowhere near the extent i would desire.
B- While i understood and had many literary features to use in the development of Shakespeare's themes, I failed to connect them to how the audience would receive them.
C- My paper was well organized, though sometimes i faltered. Overall i stayed in line with what i had planned in the 20 minutes.
D- My language wasn't particularly diverse and i stuttered a lot with what i was saying. While coherent it had numerous flaws.
