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Students should select several stage directions and explain what they mean and how they help the reader understand the play. For example, they might say that the stage direction [Aside] means that the actor is to speak the character’s words aloud to the audience, but not to any other character. Lines introduced by [Aside] express the character’s inner thoughts and are unheard by others in the scene. Students might suggest that this device allows the audience or reader to understand a character’s motives. They may refer to Macbeth’s lines “If chance will have me King, why, / Chance may crown me, / Without my stir,” and “The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step / On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap. . . .”