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Here are some quotations from the play which express the difference between the public face (what seems to be) and the private thoughts (what really is):

“Look the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it” “Gentle my lord, sleek o’er your rugged looks,

Be bright and jovial among your guests tonight” (III. 2. 28)

“And make our faces vizards to our hearts

Disguising what they are” (III. 2. 34)

Write a story in which the main character has to “Look the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it”.

It does not have to be a modern version Macbeth, but you could make the story more interesting by relating it to the play.

You could use the quotations above as chapter or section titles. For example, the first section, in which the villain meets the victim and has to act innocent, could have the title False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

You could base your story on the same structure as the play

1. The false welcome

2. The Treacherous deed

3. Fake Grief

4. Acting the Innocent

Some suggestions:

•The star player on the school team – an accident is arranged by the person who has been kept out of the team . . .

•The well respected leader of the gang (or corporation company) – a nasty accident is arranged by the person next in line for leadership . . .

Introduction to creative writing

Short story structure

Typical narrative structure

Forms

Planning

Your task: Modernizing Shakespeare

Before you begin writing your piece, you need to plan out your story carefully. You may not use all of this information in your final, but it is important that you work out where you want to go, and why.

Orientation- Introduce your characters & setting

Complication- This is the source of CONFLICT for your story

Climax- The most exciting part of the story

What the story has been building towards

Resolution- ‘tying up loose ends’ (Generally the ‘happily ever after’)

Short stories may not adhere to the aforementioned structure.

They may begin with the complication and provide orientation throughout the story.

They may not provide a resolution

Consider what the most important part of structure is for your story

- Short Stories

- Poems

- Diary entries

- Letters

- Script

Write a 600- 1000 word creative piece that addresses one of the themes presented in Macbeth. Alternatively, you can write a modern adaptation of a scene from Macbeth. Here are some ideas to get you started.

- You need to identify the central tension, issue or conflict to be resolved in this story.

- Choose a suitable point of view

- Give a plot summary

- List features of the setting (time, place)

- Plan the characters - key actions, signature dialogue, features

- Outline their motivations

- Define your genre (type of writing) whether fable, slice or life, etc.

- Choose appropriate title

Manipulation

Guilt

Public/private

“A little water clears us of this deed".

“When you durst do it, then you were a man”

“But screw your courage to the sticking point , and we’ll not fail”

Write a scene for a play in which one person is persuading another person to do something wrong.

Some suggestions are:

•to commit a murder to gain the insurance money

•to break the law

•to cheat in an exam

This second person had agreed to go along with the idea but has decided to change his or her mind. Their first speech could be a modern version of Macbeth’s “We will proceed no further in this business”.

Try to use all four of the tactics used by Lady Macbeth. Do not worry too much about explaining the story; concentrate on making the persuasion as powerful as possible.

Write a story in which guilt and fear work on someone who has committed a crime.

Try to include in your story some of the things which happen to Macbeth.

•has trouble sleeping; suffers from terrible nightmares

•has to commit more crimes to cover his or her tracks

•begins to see things

•desperately needs reassurance

You could write this story from the point of view of the guilty person. The story could be in the form of his or her diary or even just that person’s thoughts.

Predictions

“All hail Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter”

Write a story in which the main character receives several predictions which sound good, but in fact turn out to be very harmful.

The story could begin like this:

It sounded too good to be true when the old fortune teller at the fair made the prediction. Now I wish I had never gone near the tent. She had looked at my hand and said . . .

Planning

Major features in creative writing

Plot is the organization of events that will take place in the story.

Characters are the people or animals who will be in the story.

Setting is the physical time and place in which the story takes place.

Dialogue is the spoken words of the characters in the story.

Point of view is the relative identification of the narrator with the characters.

Theme is the main idea or meaning behind a story.

Style is the writer's use of the language.

Creative Writing

Macbeth

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