How will this intensify the of horror? audience’s sense Pen to paper: How does the way the witches speak and the words they use build up the power of the scene? Consider and complete the chart below: Plosives: /d/p/b/t/k Fricatives /s/z/ Identify the plosive sounds: Identify the fricative sounds: Double double toil and trouble Sweltered venom, sleeping got Fire burn and cauldron bubble Why would Shakespeare choose Why would Shakespeare choose these sounds for the witches? these sounds for the witches? Semantic field of death Semantic field of nature Re-read the all of Re-read the speech. List all of witches’ speech. List witches’ the words that you might associate with the words that you might associate with death. nature. Why do you think Shakespeare put a Why do you think Shakespeare put a semantic field of death in the speech semantic field of nature and animals of the witches? in the speech of the witches? What kind of animals are included? Why
How will this intensify the audience’s sense of horror? Pen to paper: How does the way the witches speak and the words they use build up the power of the scene? Consider and complete the chart below: Plosives: /d/p/b/t/k Identify the plosive sounds: Double double toil and trouble Fire burn and cauldron bubble Fricatives /s/z/ Identify the fricative sounds: Sweltered venom, sleeping got Why would Shakespeare choose these sounds for the witches? Why would Shakespeare choose these sounds for the witches? Semantic field of death Re-read the witches’ speech. List all of the words that you might associate with death. Semantic field of nature Re-read the witches’ speech. List all of the words that you might associate with nature. Why do you think Shakespeare put a semantic field of death in the speech of the witches? Why do you think Shakespeare put a semantic field of nature and animals in the speech of the witches? What kind of animals are included? Why