Answer each of the following in a few carefully chosen words.
- How does the first witch plan to punish the sailor’s wife who refused to give her chestnuts?
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- Why punish him for her refusal to share chestnuts?
- Why would she experience pain for punishment to him?
- Women “need” a husband, she is nothing without him.
- What freedom do the witches enjoy, that the sailor’s wife doesn’t?
- witches don’t need a husband
- witches have power
- men are the source of women’s power?
- witches don’t like that
- How do men get this power over women?
- women give power to men, witches don’t.
- What freedom do the witches enjoy, that the sailor’s wife doesn’t?
- the response from the wife : “Aroint thee, witch!” = “Begone, witch!”
- her attitude is not her own
- her will is not her own
- what she says, it what he says
- she has done nothing deserving of punishment
- irony : the witches attempt to liberate the sailor’s wife
- When women do not share with women, men are to blame
- The punishment is an attempt to help her.
- The witches have great loyalty to all women, even those who persecute them.
- Sailor is symbolic of all male hierarchy.
- Wife is symbol of victim crated by male hierarchy(Peter Peter pumpkin eater)
- Shakespeare foreshadows feminism of the ’60s.
- punish the husband
- “drain him dry as hay”
- dehydrate, remove his water
- no drinking water on a boat
- like a really, really bad hangover
- wikipedia dehydration symptoms
- headache, cramps, dizziness, “visual snow”
- cursed to never sleep “Sleep shall neither night nor day
Hang upon his penthouse lid;”- wikipedia insomnia: “functional impairment while awake”
- “Weary se’nnights nine times nine / Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine;” = “Worn out with fatigue for a (81 weeks?) week, and very cross,
He will waste away, droop in health and spirit .” - His ship, while not lost: “it shall be tempest-tost” storm
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- What do the witches predict for Banquo’s future?
- Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.
- Macbeth is promised material, title, rank, hierachical power… things, fleeting things. How are these lesser?
- Banquo has wisdom. What would you give up being King for? Banquo’s name is eternally connected to the monarchy, Banquo becomes immortal
- Banquo becomes a role model
- Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.
- Aside from promising that Malcolm will be king, what title does Duncan give him?
- On whom does Lady Macbeth call to give her the strength of purpose to perform Duncan’s murder?
- Macbeth gives three reasons why he should not kill Duncan. Name two of them.
- What is Lady Macbeth’s plan for killing the king?