As two spent swimmers that do cling together
And choke their art. The merciless Macdonald –
Worthy to be a rebel, for to that
The multiplying villainies of nature
Do swarm upon him – from the Western Isles
Of kerns and galloglasses is supplied,
And Fortune on his damnèd quarrel smiling,
Showed like a rebel’s whore. But all’s too weak,
For brave Macbeth – well he deserves that name –
Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like Valour’s minion carved out his passage
Till he faced the slave,
Which ne’er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,
Till he unseamed him from the nave to th’chaps
And fixed his head upon our battlements.
Starting with this speech, explore how far Shakespeare presents Macbeth as a violent character.
how Shakespeare presents Macbeth in this extract
how far Shakespeare presents Macbeth as a violent character in the play as a whole.
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Read the following extract from Act 5 Scene 1 of Macbeth and then answers the question that follows.
At this point in the play, the Doctor and the Gentlewoman watch Lady Macbeth sleepwalking.
Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One, two. Why then, 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old Man to have had so much blood in him. Do you mark that? The thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that. You mar all with this starting. Go to, go to; you have known what you should not. She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of That. Heaven knows what she has known. Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O. What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged. I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the dignity of the whole body. Well, well, well,-- Pray God it be, sir. This disease is beyond my practise: yet I have known those which have walked in their sleep who have died holily in their beds. Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so Pale. I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he cannot come out on's grave. Even so? To bed, to bed; there's knocking at the gate. Come, come, come, come, give me your hand; what's done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed. |
‘Lady Macbeth is a female character who changes during the play.’ Starting with this moment in the play, explore how far you agree with this view. Write about:
how Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth in this extract
how far Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as a female character who changes in the play as a whole
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Read the following extract from Act 2 Scene 2 of Macbeth and then answer the question that follows.
At this point in the play, Macbeth has murdered Duncan and has returned to Lady Macbeth.
Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more: Macbeth does murder sleep’, the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast.
‘Glamis hath murdered sleep’, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more.
You do unbend your noble strength to think So brain-sickly of things. Go get some water And wash this filthy witness from your hand. Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must lie there. Go carry them and smear The sleepy grooms with blood.
I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on’t again, I dare not.
Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; ’tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I’ll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt. |
Starting with this conversation, explore how Shakespeare presents the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
how Shakespeare presents their relationship in this extract
how Shakespeare presents the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in the play as a whole
Read the following extract from Act 3 Scene 1 of Macbeth and then answer the question that follows.
At this point in the play, Macbeth is thinking of his feelings about Banquo.
To be thus is nothing, But to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo Stick deep; and in his royalty of nature Reigns that which would be feared. ‘Tis much he dares, And to that dauntless temper of his mind, He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour To act in safety. There is none but he, Whose being I do fear; and under him, My Genius is rebuked; as it is said, Mark Antony's was by Caesar. He chid the sisters When first they put the name of king upon me And bade them speak to him. Then prophet-like, They hail'd him father to a line of kings. Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding. If 't be so, For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind; For them the gracious Duncan have I murdered, Put rancours in the vessel of my peace Only for them, and mine eternal jewel Given to the common enemy of man, To make them kings, the seeds of Banquo kings. Rather than so, come fate into the list. And champion me to the utterance! Who’s there? |
Starting with this speech, explore how Shakespeare presents Macbeth’s fears.
how Shakespeare presents Macbeth’s fears in this speech
how Shakespeare presents Macbeth’s fears in the play as a whole.
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Can someone please give me a mark out of 30 for this essay (Its only half an answer-1 paragraph out of 2-so please keep that in mind) Explai n how Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth and Macbeth's relationship in Act 1 scene 7. (Extract lines 36-60) Shakespeare presents Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's relationship as a toxic one, with a power difference between the dominant Lady Macbeth and Macbeth ...
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A Modern Perspective: Macbeth. By Susan Snyder. Coleridge pronounced Macbeth to be "wholly tragic.". Rejecting the drunken Porter of Act 2, scene 3 as "an interpolation of the actors," and perceiving no wordplay in the rest of the text (he was wrong on both counts), he declared that the play had no comic admixture at all.
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