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k143
k143
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What problems can be formulated at various reading moments in Act 3 of Macbeth?

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Posted by k143 on Thursday November 27, 2008 at 7:45 PM and tagged with act 3, macbeth, reader response criticism.

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  1. danylyshen Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

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    It seems to me you're being asked to indulge in some reader response criticism during a reading of Macbeth. You might consider:

    1. How Macbeth's psycology fares during this act. More and more Macbeth is obsessing over his kingship and the witches' prophecy. What makes a man wish to kill to secure ill-gotten gains?

    2. We notice that both Macbeth and his wife are suffering from troubled sleep and bad dreams. We could consider how things are now "unnatural" in a Shakespearean sense and meditate on how things are not normal.

    3. Scene four reveals Macbeth's fragile state and has us cringe as if we were guests at the celebratory banquet. As readers focusing on psychology, we are now convinced that something isn't right in the psyche and in the kingship. 

    This is a start, certainly, but i hope I'm driving at the heart of your question.

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    Posted by danylyshen on Friday November 28, 2008 at 6:17 AM