Monday, June 8, 2015

Static and Dynamic characters---copy the notes in red into your notebook. I will collect the paragraph(s)

Static characters--characters who stay the same throughout the work.
Dynamic characters--characters who undergo changes as the plot unfolds.

In-class Assignment-

Write 1-2 paragraphs on Lady Macbeth in which you describe whether or not you think she is a static or dynamic character. Use an example from Act I (can be general) and a specific example (actual lines) from  today's reading in your answer as support.

Macbeth Youtube link

Here are a few lines from her earlier scenes if you want them:
"Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be
What thou art promis'd. Yet do I fear thy nature,
It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way". (Act I, sc. v)


"A little water clears us of this deed." (Act II, sc. i)

"Come, you spirits/That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,/ And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full/Of direst cruelty!"(Act I, sc v)

"Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead/Are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood /That fears a painted devil," (Act II, sc. ii)

"What's done is done." (Act III, sc. ii)

"My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white," (Act IV, sc.ii)

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