Week of January 31st--Macbeth

Dear Honor Students,


Please analyze the following quotes from Macebeth; identify the speaker, provide context for the meaning, and interpret the meaning.


1.   

Yet do I fear they nature;

It is too full o'th' milk of human kindness

To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great,

Art not without ambition, but without

The illness should attend to it.

2.  

The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step

On which I must fall down or else o'erleap,

For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

3.

Hie thee hither,

That I may pour my spirits in thine ear

And chastise with the valour of my tongue

All that impedes thee from the golden round.

Week of January 24th--Macbeth

1. What are the witches planning at the beginning of the act?

2. What happened to the original Thane of Cawdor and why did he lose his title?

3. How do the witches greet Macbeth after the battle? Why?

4. What is the significance of Lady Macbeth's "unsex me" scene?

Week of January 9th--Native Son

1. What are some of the reasons that Bigger begins to trust Jan and Boris Max?

2. Why does Bigger attack Reverend Hammond and discard the cross Hammond has given to him?

3. What two incidents in the novel indicate that the author believes that the psychiatric profession has contributed to racism?