Macbeth
1. Characters
2. Setting
3. Imagery/Symbolism
4. Plot
5. Language/Music
Place? Inside/outside?  Natural/man-made?  Cluttered/spare?  Attributes/descriptions of place?
Scene Observations
Conceptual Effects:
Do any word choices seem surprising or especially suggestive of meaning/tone/feeling? (diction)
Any figurative language employed?  By whom?
Who speaks the most/least?
Any patterns to the content of a character's speech?

Musical Effects:
Is the rhythm iambic pentameter?  Any notable exceptions?
Is there rhyme?  Internal?  End rhyme?  Disruptions?
Any sound techniques employed? (alliteration/assonance/consonance/dissonance/etc.)

Time?
Time of day?  Of year?  Amount of time covered in the course of the scene?  Day time or night time?  Attributes/descriptions of time?
Context?
What happens immediately before and after this scene (paying special attention to juxtaposition of settings)?  Does the setting change within the scene?
Act Analysis:
What is the overall mood created by the various aspects of setting?  

How would you stage a scene in order to exploit the impact of setting (consider lighting/set design/colors/sound and special effects/etc.)?

How is the tragic aspect of the play developed//emphasized?
Which characters are in the scene?  Which characters are new and which are recurring?  Who has the most lines?  The least?  In what ways besides speech are the characters characterized (actions/interactions/clothing/descriptions/setting/
other)?  Quote one statement by a significant character that seems most illustrative of him/her.
Scene Observations
Act Analysis
How is the tragic aspect of the play developed/emphasized?

Copy a conversation (of at least 10 lines) and explore the subtext.
Scene Observations
Where?
Act Analysis
Select two short passages from within the act that contrast with regard to language/music.  Copy them on a page.  

Indicate the contrasting elements.

What meaning is created by the opposition?
Scene Observations
Act Analysis
What happens in each scene (brief summary)?
What happens that is NOT "traffic of [the] stage"?
Is ordering/arrangement of the action ever surprising?
How is plot presented in such a way that we (the audience) know things characters do not (dramatic irony?
To what extent does this act fit with Freytag's conception of dramatic structure? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramatic_structure)

Imagine an additional scene for this act.  Give a brief synopsis of that scene, and explain why it is worthy of inclusion. 

Scene Observations
Act Analysis
Any striking and/or seemingly symbolic images (i.e., blood, mothering, animals, weaponry, etc.)?

How do key images change, progress, evolve or devolve?

Which images increase in frequency?  Which decrease?


Can you categorize the effect or feeling conveyed by sets of images?

Choose a key image and render it visually (consider:  color; contour; shading; composition/space; abstract or concrete; sharp or soft focus; etc.).  Include a quotation.

Explore the significance of the presentation of your image.