Thursday, 19 November

Class reviewed homework and spent the period analyzing how inflection effects the interpretation of lines in Macbeth, and how inflection can reflect character (with a focus on Duncan).

Homework: Paraphrase and describe the significance of:

I.iii. 132-137

 That, trusted home,

Might yet enkindle you unto the crown,

Besides the thane of Cawdor. But ’tis strange.

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,

The instruments of darkness tell us truths,

Win us with honest trifles, to betray ’s

In deepest consequence.