I placed on the board an analytical outline for Nina's study of Macbeth and discussed how to employ the outline in addressing test and study guide questions with the objective of identifying a theory of tragedy and interpreting metaphors in order to tie them to character or events in the play. We first discussed the two theories of tragedy and reviewed Aristotle's definition of hamartia . In discussing dramatic structure I then defined "Peripeteia" as the tragic hero's turn of fortune or the beginning of his downfall. We identified the play's tension between a tragedy of fate and of hamartia . Nina discussed textual support for each theory of tragedy and aptly concluded that the play ,while steeped in the supernatural, remains a play where the tragic flaw of Macbeth causes his downfall. Next, we identified various metaphors and examined how to interpret the metaphorical language and how connect the metaphors to events in the play or to Macbeth's character. We specifically analyzed the famous speech wherein Macbeth concedes he is "in blood stepped so far that I should wade no more" etc ..