"...'tis strange; and oftentimes to win us to our harm the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence" - Banquo, Act I, Scene III, Macbeth

STUDY PLAN

The Play
Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Films
Macbeth Orson Welles - [ expressionism ]
Throne of Blood Akira Kurosawa - [ symbolism ]
Macbeth Roman Polanski - [ realism ]
Rashomon Akira Kurosawa - [ parable ]

About Akira Kurosawa

Orson Wells and Expressionism Links

Film Analysis Sheet 1
Film Analysis Sheet 2

Prose
Lord of the Flies William Golding

Essential Organising Question 1:
Why do people commit crime?

Plot, Setting and Relationships

• Macbeth - Ambition, Love, Envy, Betrayal
• Rashomon - Instinct, Desire
• Lord of the Flies - Survival, Power, Rebellion

Essential Organising Question 2:
How is truth perceived?

Character Study

• Macbeth - Deception, Equivocation
• Rashomon - Subjective nature of truth
• Lord of the Flies - Individual versus Group Behaviour

Essential organising question 3:
What is justice?

Literary Analysis - Poetic Expression
• Macbeth - Guilt and Punishment
• Lord of the Flies - Natural Justice
• Rashomon - Legal Judgement, Self Justification

For future reference, Noh Theatre Links:
http://www.artelino.com/articles/noh_theater.asp
http://www.japan-zone.com/culture/noh.shtml
http://www.ntj.jac.go.jp/english/index.html
http://artsci.wustl.edu/~rlneblet/noh/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noh