NAME: _____________________________________
Macbeth
—Tracing a Motif
TEAM NAME: ________________________________
Directions: In the chart below, identify all references to your team’s assigned topic. Be sure to quote the
passage exactly as it appears in the text. (If you use two-three lines, use a forward slash / to indicate when
one line breaks and another begins. If you need to quote four or more lines of a passage, write them exactly
as they appear with line breaks—no forward slash.)
Topic: ____________________________________________________
Documen-
Speaker
Quoted Passage
Context/Explanation
tation
(ex. 3.4.18-20)
Lady Macbeth is concerned that her
EX. “Yet do I fear thy nature; / It is
husband is not ruthless enough to do
too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness /
1.5.16-17
Lady
what it takes to attain the throne
To catch the nearest way.”
Macbeth
(murder)—she associates “human
kindness” with “milk” and indirectly with
children—a child’s drink