Macbeth+Project+-+Sydney+T+-+Dramatic+Structure+Quote+Chart

Exposition: "For brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name - disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel, which smoked with bloody execution, Like Valor's minion carved out his passage till he faced the slave; ne'er shook hands, not bade farewell to him, till he unseamed him from the nave to the chops, and fixed his head upon out battlements." 1.2.15 - 23 Rising action: "I have almost forgot the taste of fears the time has been, my senses would have cooled to hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in't. I have supped fill with horrors. Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts cannot once start me." 5.5.9-15 Climax: "Hail, king! For so thou art. Behold, where stands the usurper's cursed head. The time is free." 5.7.83-84 Falling action: "As calling home our exiled friends abroad that fled the snares of watchful tyranny, producing forth the cruel ministers of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen." 5.7.96-99 Denouement: "This, and what needful else that calls upon us, by the grace of Grace, we will perform in measure, time and place. So, thanks to all at once and to each one, whom we invite to see us crowned at Scone." 5.7.101-105

I chose these quotes because I thought it best illustrated the progression of the story, and the changes in Macbeth, leading to his demise. First, Macbeth was seen as a valiant warrior. He was respected by his officers, one of which is saying the quote from the exposition, and even by king Duncan. He was respected enough for the king to grant him more land and become the thane of Cawdor. But Macbeth's reputation gets worse and worse as the book goes along. I chose the rising action to be in the very last act, because it sums up Macbeth's change from a trusted hero, to a villain. In this quote, Macbeth explains how he used to be easily shaken, but after he had "supped [his] fill of horrors" and because of his "slaughterous thoughts", he's not really the same guilty person he used to be. The climax and rising action also fall in the same act. I chose the climax quote to take place right after the battle when everyone is excited about defeating Macbeth and being free of him. Instead of the murders of Duncan or Banquo being the climax, I chose this part because I thought it was the most intense moment of the book; we knew that Macbeth was going to do terrible things to get power, but who was going to end his tyranny, and in what way? And finally, I chose the falling action to be when Malcolm, the new king, is righting all of the wrongs, bringing everyone out of hiding, and giving him one last chance to insult the Macbeths. And I chose the denouement to be the last thing that Malcolm says which is that everything else that needs to be fixed will be, and he, the rightful king, will be crowned.
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