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Macbeth | Class 5: Free Will (Act 1)
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You are at a restaurant and have already eaten a wonderful meal. The waiter asks if you want desert and shows you a tray with the most delicious looking piece of chocolate cake you have ever seen. You are full, and the cake is expensive, but you decide to order and then to consume a piece.
- How did you rationalize eating the cake?
- Do you think that you were predestined to eat the cake?
- Do you think that you were exercising free will in your decision to eat the cake?
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- Class 1: Introduction to Macbeth
- Class 2: Conventions of Shakespearean Verse and Staging
- Class 3: The Supernatural (Act 1)
- Class 4: Imagination (Act 1)
- Class 5: Free Will (Act 1)
- Class 6: Vocabulary (Act 1)
- Class 7: Soliloquies (Act 1)
- Class 8: Soliloquies Continued (Act 1)
- Class 9: Review (Act 1)
- Class 10: Exam 1 (Act 1)
- Class 11: Cross-Curriculum Exercise on Historical Inquiry
- Class 12: Historical Inquiry Presentations
- Class 13: Historical Inquiry Presentations
- Class 14: Murder (Act 2)
- Class 15: Metaphors and Similes (Act 2)
- Class 16: Vocabulary (Act 2)
- Class 17: Review (Act 2)
- Class 18: Exam 2 (Act 2)
- Class 19: Literary Analysis (Act 3)
- Class 20: Lady Macbeth and Freud Improvisations (Act 3)
- Class 21: Conscience and Consciousness (Act 3)
- Class 22: Vocabulary (Act 3)
- Class 23: Review (Act 3)
- Class 24: Exam 3 (Act 3)
- Class 25: Symbolism (Act 4)
- Class 26: Staging and Vision (Act 4)
- Class 27: Vision Realized (Act 4)
- Class 28: Illustrated Vocabulary (Acts 4 and 5)
- Class 29: Time (Act 5)
- Class 30: Review (Acts 4 and 5)
- Class 31: Exam 4 (Acts 4 and 5)
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