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Reading Worksheet #12
Text: Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
Topic: Images in Drama
Seminar Session: Week 5
Deadline: to be handed in to your teacher the week after (12h-16th February)
PART I – Objectives
In this extract, you will see how the language used by the characters reveals their
different feelings.
PART II - Reading guidelines: Tasks before reading the text
1. According to the Elizabethan view of the world, why was killing the king
such a horrible deed that it could scarcely be mentioned at all? You may need to
refer to “the great chain of being”. Suggested bibliography:
http://www.moval.edu/faculty/adderleym/shakespeare/the_cosmos.htm
http://157.182.176.39/mberdine/Shakespeare/ShakElizWorldView.htm
According to the Elizabethan view of the world, the fact of killing the kill was a really
horrible dead because at that time, people thoughts that the king was the middle of all.
The king was the Earth representation of God and all of his decisions were affecting to
the population. If somebody killed the king, the misfortune relapsed to the village.
2. In Shakespeare’s days, what do you think were the established ideals of
masculinity and femininity? Can you think of any characters from his plays that
stick to these views?
According to the Shakespeare’s days, I think that the masculinity was very present in all
of the decisions and facts of the time, because the man was the middle of all as the king.
The man had the power and the woman must to attend men. The woman have stayed
aside and she was consider a useless object, only to attend the children and men.
