On the board, we reviewed our objectives in studying "Macbeth" :1 To identify theories of tragedy 2. To interpret symbolic metaphors and to relate them to events in the play or character ,and 3. To Identify the function of imagery such as water and blood imagery. Nina then worked on preparing a written analysis of a portion of one of Macbeth's soliloquies to first identify the items compared in the metaphor and then to relate the metaphor to events in the play and to Macbeth's disintegrating moral character. I assisted her in isolating the items compared in the metaphor and in drawing the inferences from the metaphor to clarify its connection to the plot and to Macbeth's burgeoning evil nature,. We continued this written exercise with a second soliloquy that included the blood and water imagery.