Fair is foul : Macbeth, ambition et culpabilité (Seconde)
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| Anglais | Français |
|---|---|
| a prophecy | une prophétie |
| ambition / ambitious | l'ambition / ambitieux |
| guilt / guilty | la culpabilité / coupable |
| a tyrant | un tyran |
| I wish I hadn't done it. | Je regrette de l'avoir fait. |
| He should have refused. | Il aurait dû refuser. |
Le général écossais Macbeth rencontre trois sorcières qui lui prédisent qu'il sera roi. Poussé par son ambition et par sa femme, Lady Macbeth, il assassine le roi Duncan... puis doit tuer encore pour garder le pouvoir. Le couple sombre dans la culpabilité : Lady Macbeth, somnambule, tente d'effacer une tache de sang imaginaire (Out, damned spot!). Pour exprimer le regret : I wish I had / hadn't + participe passé, If only..., should have + participe passé.
Mise en situation : la scène de la culpabilité
À retenir
- a prophecy, ambition, guilt, a tyrant, to murder, to walk in one's sleep.
- Regret : I wish I had / hadn't + participe ; If only I had... ; should have + participe.
Exercice 1 : Macbeth : exercice 1 (QCM)
- « une prophétie »
- a prophecy
- a profecy
- a prophet of
- « la culpabilité »
- guild
- gilt
- guilt
- « coupable »
- guilty
- gilty
- guiltly
- « un tyran »
- a tyre
- a tyrant
- a tirant
- « Je regrette de l'avoir fait. »
- I wish I haven't done it.
- I wish I didn't do it yesterday.
- I wish I hadn't done it.
- « Il aurait dû refuser. »
- He should refused.
- He should have refused.
- He should has refused.
- Les sorcières prédisent que Macbeth sera...
- pauvre
- moine
- roi
- Le roi assassiné s'appelle...
- Claudius
- Lear
- Duncan
- Lady Macbeth essaie d'effacer...
- une larme
- une lettre
- une tache de sang
- « marcher dans son sommeil »
- to sleepwalk of
- to walk on his sleeping
- to walk in one's sleep
Exercice 2 : Macbeth : exercice 2 (à compléter)
- Out, damned .......................... !
- Will these hands never be .......................... ?
- She walks in her .......................... .
- I wish I had never .......................... to those witches.
- If .......................... I had stayed loyal!
- I should have .......................... .
- Her .......................... is a disease.
- He became a .......................... .
- The witches made a .......................... .
- Fair is foul, and foul is .......................... .
Exercice 3 : Macbeth : mise en situation
- Lady Macbeth veut effacer la tache.
- Off, damned spot!
- Out, damned spot!
- Out, damned spoon!
- Ses mains ne seront jamais propres.
- Will these hands never being clean?
- Will this hands never be clean?
- Will these hands never be clean?
- Le médecin : elle marche en dormant.
- She walks in her sleep every night.
- She walk in her sleep every night.
- She walks in his sleep every night.
- Elle n'arrête pas de se laver les mains.
- She keeps washing her hands.
- She keep washing her hands.
- She keeps to wash her hands.
- Macbeth regrette d'avoir écouté les sorcières.
- I wish I never listened those witches.
- I wish I had never listened to those witches.
- I wish I have never listened to those witches.
- Si seulement il était resté loyal.
- If only I had stayed a loyal general!
- If only I stayed a loyal general before!
- If only I have stayed a loyal general!
- Il aurait dû refuser.
- I should have refuse.
- I should refused.
- I should have refused.
- Aucun médecin ne peut guérir sa culpabilité.
- Her guilt is a disease any doctor can cure.
- Her guilty is a disease no doctor can cure.
- Her guilt is a disease no doctor can cure.
- Tu regrettes d'avoir menti.
- I wish I haven't lied.
- I wish I didn't lie before.
- I wish I hadn't lied.
- Tu analyses : l'ambition le détruit.
- Her ambition destroys him.
- His ambition destroy him.
- His ambition destroys him.
Corrigé
Exercice 1
1. a) a prophecy · 2. c) guilt · 3. a) guilty · 4. b) a tyrant · 5. c) I wish I hadn't done it. · 6. b) He should have refused. · 7. c) roi · 8. c) Duncan · 9. c) une tache de sang · 10. c) to walk in one's sleep
Exercice 2
1. spot · 2. clean · 3. sleep · 4. listened · 5. only · 6. refused · 7. guilt · 8. tyrant · 9. prophecy · 10. fair
Exercice 3
1. b) Out, damned spot! · 2. c) Will these hands never be clean? · 3. a) She walks in her sleep every night. · 4. a) She keeps washing her hands. · 5. b) I wish I had never listened to those witches. · 6. a) If only I had stayed a loyal general! · 7. c) I should have refused. · 8. c) Her guilt is a disease no doctor can cure. · 9. c) I wish I hadn't lied. · 10. c) His ambition destroys him.