Macbeth Project

Select one of the assignments to do. No matter what option you select, you project should reflect your understanding of the entire play. Don't skip any act. Your project must include one illustration of the play: it can be a portrait, a sketch of a character, a scene illustration, a theme collage, etc.

1. Create a newspaper called Scotland Gazette to report the sequence of events, the pivotal and interesting elements in the story based on each act of the play. Like any newspaper, there should be editorials, headline news, illustrations etc.
   • Example 1
   • Example 2
2. Make a list of at least 15 literary elements or techniques from each act and explain the meaning of each example. Label the lines selected ( i.e. Act I, Scene 1, lines 2-5). Total number of the examples should be 60 from 5 acts.
3. Pick a theme, for example "Ambitions can turn a person blind to morals". Use the theme as the umbrella and find quotes-speeches, actions, events, and character's thoughts from each act that fall under the umbrella theme to illustrate it. You can use direct quotations or paraphrase the speeches or  summarize the events & actions.
4. A break-down summary for each scene of each act.
   • Setting-
   • Mood-
   • Characters involved-
   • Events (conflicts)-
   • Consequences-
   • The key point of the scene-
   • Your comments-
5. Pick one main character to analyze and follow him/her throughout the play. Use his/her speeches, other characters comments on him/her, as evidence. In the end, a complete character analysis essay.

   For example,

   Analysis of Macbeth

   Characteristics	His Speeches	His Actions	Comments by Other Characters	My Comments
   Bravery			"Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,     Which smoked with bloody execution,     Like valour's minion carved out his passage     Till he faced the slave;     Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,     Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,     And fix'd his head upon our battlements."(Act I, Scene 2)
   Ambitious

6. Use Inspiration program to illustrate the sequence of events and characters involved (only a few students can select this project to do. You must know  the program to do this project.)
7. Write a five-scene screenplay using modern English as well as incorporating some original lines from the play. But the plot must remain the same. In rewriting the play, you need to include the following:( View an example)
   1. the descriptions of the setting
   2. the dialogues among the characters
   3. stage directions that direct the characters' physical  movements( including facial , tone and emotional changes) on the stage
   4. the narratives of each character's main physical or personality traits.
8. Be Macbeth' subconscious self. If his ambition had not taken control his whole mind, what could have happened...? You may need to create your own version of Macbeth who had listened to his conscious.
9. If you are good at making digital images, create at least 5 digital images (your original work not a copy of any Internet images) to illustrate the five acts. Each image needs to be accompanied by a brief writing, which can be a poem, a quote, a description or a story. One of the five images must be the book cover. See an example.
10. Create two advertisements pertinent to the play (view an example). Each advertisement must include slogan, some text and images.
11. Select four most important soliloquies by Macbeth or Lady Macbeth to interpret. Here is the format:

12. Create a Timeline to illustrate the events in Macbeth with detailed verbal explanations and images. Time should be liked to a detailed explanation. See an example.