By William Shakespeare: Literature Paper 1
By William Shakespeare: Literature Paper 1
By William Shakespeare: Literature Paper 1
Literature Paper 1:
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Name: Class:
CONTENTS:
1. Week 1: Plot Revision 6-15
a. Act 1 6-7
b. Act 2 8-9
c. Act 3 10-11
d. Act 4 12-13
e. Act 5 14-15
2. Key Theme 1: Ambition 16-25
a. Context: Shakespearean beliefs about kingship 16-17
b. A1S5: “Come you spirits…” 18-19
c. A1S7: “If it were done when ‘tis done…” 20-21
d. A3S1: “Is this a dagger…” 22-23
e. Exam Practice 24-25
3. Key Theme 2: The Supernatural 26-35
a. Context: Shakespearean beliefs about witchcraft 26-27
b. A1S3: “Two truths are told…” 28-29
c. A3S4: “What man dare, I dare…” 30-31
d. A4S1: “Be bloody, bold and resolute…” 32-33
e. Exam Practice 34-35
4. Key Theme 3: Power and Corruption 36-45
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d. A5S3: “Bring me no more reports…” 42-43
e. Exam Practice 44-45
5. Key Theme 4: Gender 46-55
a. Context: Shakespearean beliefs about gender roles 46-47
b. A1S7: “Prithee, peace…” 48-49
c. A2S2: “I’ll go no more…” 50-51
d. A5S1: “Out, damned spot! …” 52-53
e. Exam Practice 54-55
6. Key Theme 5: Fate and Free Will 56-65
a. Context: Fate, free will and the tragic hero 56-57
b. A4S1: “Be lion-mettled…” 58-59
c. A5S5: “She should have died hereafter…” 60-61
d. A5S8: “Accursed be that tongue…” 62-63
e. Exam Practice 64-65
7. Knowledge Organiser: Key Quotations and Revision 66-67
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Act 1 Revision
DNA: How is Macbeth viewed at the beginning of the play and why?
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King Duncan hears how _____________ has been a brave warrior whilst fighting
the Norwegians. Duncan gives Macbeth the title of Thane of _____________ as
reward for his valour. The old Thane is sentenced to death for being a traitor.
On their way back from battle, Macbeth and Banquo meet the _____________
who tell Macbeth that he will become the new Thane of Cawdor and also
the new ___________ of Scotland. The weird sisters tell Banquo that his
descendants will be the future ___________ of Scotland. Macbeth is not sure
whether this is true, but he is soon told by a messenger that he is now the new
_______________ This seems like the first part of the prophecy has come true.
Duncan arrives at _____________ castle and is greeted by the hosts. They hold
a feast and most people get drunk. Macbeth is __________ about killing
Duncan and decides to abandon his plan. Macbeth believes that Duncan is
a __________ king and he comments that Duncan has often ______________
Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is angry that Macbeth has abandoned his plan to
kill Duncan and calls him a _____________. Macbeth decides to go through
with the plan to murder Duncan.
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c) Act 1 Short Answer Questions:
1. What news does the blood-stained captain bring to the king at the
beginning of the Act? What is the result of this news?
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3. How does Banquo’s reaction to the witches differ from Macbeth’s? What
does this suggest about each man’s character?
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Act 2 Revision
DNA: What is Macbeth’s state of mind at the end of Act 1 and why?
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Macduff arrives at the castle and discovers the __________________ and raises
the alarm. Duncan’s sons, ________________ and __________________ quickly
leave Scotland because they might be ______________ of killing their father.
Macduff does not ________________ Macbeth and suspects that Macbeth
might have something to do with it.
1. What vision does Macbeth have at the beginning of Act 2? Why do you
think this hallucination occurs?
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2. How does Lady Macbeth react to Macbeth after the murder? What does
this reveal about their relationship?
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3. How do Macbeth and Lady Macbeth cover up their guilt the following
morning?
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Act 3 Revision
DNA: What is the biggest threat to Macbeth as he becomes king and why?
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Macbeth has a banquet and sets a place at the table for _______________
knowing full well that he is ___________. However, he sees the _____________ of
Banquo in the seat left for him. Macbeth shouts in ___________ at the ghost.
His guests suspect that he has a guilty ________________
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2. What role does Lady Macbeth play in Banquo’s murder? How does this
suggest a change in their relationship? Why might this change have
occurred?
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3. How is Fleance’s escape a turning point in the play? What impact do you
think this has on Macbeth’s state of mind and why?
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4. After seeing Banquo’s ghost, Macbeth says “Blood will have blood”. What
do you think this means and why is it significant to the play?
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Act 4 Revision
DNA: Why do you think Macbeth saw Banquo’s ghost at the banquet? What
does this reveal about his state of mind?
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Macbeth decides to pay the witches another visit and they show him three
_________________ . The first is an ________________ (this represents Macbeth’s
own severed head, later), the second is a ________________ (who is likely to be
Macduff torn from his mother’s womb), and the third is a _________________
with a tree in its hand (this is meant to represent Malcolm and Birnam Wood).
The first apparition tells Macbeth to beware _____________ , the second that
he will never be defeated by anyone born of ______________ , and the third
tells Macbeth that he will never be beaten until _______________ comes to
Dunsinane.
Macduff is sure that Macbeth has murdered Duncan and decides to join
_____________ in England. He raises an army of _________________ Englishmen
in order to kill Macbeth and reclaim the throne.
In rage that Macduff has fled the country, Macbeth orders his henchmen to
kill Macduff’s _______________ and this act disgusts his followers, who start to
desert him.
1. What has Macbeth come to ask the witches? How do they answer?
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2. How has Macbeth changed since he last saw the witches? How has is
moral character deteriorated? Do you think the witches are to blame?
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3. Why do you think Shakespeare had Macbeth murder Macduff’s wife and
children? What does this symbolise about his character?
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Act 5 Revision
DNA: How do you think the witches’ apparitions have affected Macbeth as he
prepares for battle with the English army?
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Lady Macbeth has been driven into _____________ with __________ and
___________. She obsessively ______________________ as she talks in her sleep
about ________________________ .
Macbeth is preparing for battle with the English army. He feels _____________
due to the _____________ . Macbeth is informed that Lady Macbeth has
_______________________ and he begins to question the point of _____________.
A messenger tells the king that the wood is on its way to _____________ and
Macbeth becomes _______________.
When the army arrives at the castle, Macbeth recklessly attacks and ________
many men because he believes that no one can kill him. However, Macduff
tells Macbeth that he was not born of ___________ because he was born of
_______________. they start to fight. Macduff ____________ Macbeth and his
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true king of Scotland.
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2. What opinion do the Scottish lords now have of Macbeth and why?
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3. In Act 5 Macbeth talks a lot about his perspective on life. What do these
speeches reveal about his state of mind?
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4. Why do you think Shakespeare makes Lady Macbeth die at this point in
the play? What does Macbeth’s response reveal about his state of mind?
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5. Why does Macduff not take power for himself at the end of the play?
What message do you think Shakespeare is trying to give us here?
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Key Theme 1: Ambition
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DNA: Read the contextual information in silence.
1. In your own words, explain what is meant by the “divine right” of kings:
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2. How does Shakespeare show that Macbeth is does not have the divine
right of kingship?
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Plenary: List three relevant events from the play that demonstrate the theme
of ambition. Give reasons for your choices.
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Ambition: Key Scene (A1 Sc5)
Read the following extract from Act 1 Scene 5 and then answer the question
that follows.
LADY MACBETH
The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements. Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
5 And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
10 The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
15 That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry 'Hold, hold!'
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presents Lady Macbeth as an ambitious character in the play.
Write about:
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DNA: Summarise what has happened directly before this speech takes place.
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Plenary: Choose one quote from the extract and analyse how the theme of
ambition is presented by zooming in on language.
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Ambition: Key Scene (A1S7)
Read the following extract from Act 1 Scene 7 and then answer the question
that follows.
MACBETH
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
Starting with this speech, explain how far you think Shakespeare
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presents Macbeth as corrupted by ambition.
Write about:
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DNA: Summarise what has happened directly before this speech takes place.
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Plenary: Choose one quote from the extract and analyse how the theme of
ambition is presented by zooming in on language.
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Ambition: Key Scene (A2S1)
Read the following extract from Act 2 Scene 1 and then answer the question
that follows.
MACBETH
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
5 To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.
10 Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;
And such an instrument I was to use.
Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,
Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still,
And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
15 Which was not so before. There's no such thing:
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes.
Starting with this speech, explain how far you think Shakespeare
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presents Macbeth’s ambition as the main reason for his downfall.
Write about:
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Plenary: Choose one quote from the extract and analyse how the theme of
ambition is presented by zooming in on language.
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Ambition: Exam Practice
Choose one of the extracts that we have discussed as a class this week. Write
an answer to your chosen question below.
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Key Theme 2: The Supernatural
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DNA: Read the contextual information in silence.
1. In your own words, name three things that Elizabethans blamed witches
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2. How did they test for witches and what was the punishment?
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Plenary: List three relevant events from the play that demonstrate the theme
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The Supernatural: Key Scene (A1S3)
Read the following extract from Act 1 Scene 3 and then answer the question
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MACBETH
[Aside] Two truths are told,
As happy prologues to the swelling act
Of the imperial theme. — I thank you, gentlemen.
Aside
5 This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill,
Why hath it given me earnest of success,
Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor:
If good, why do I yield to that suggestion
10 Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
Against the use of nature? Present fears
Are less than horrible imaginings:
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
15 Shakes so my single state of man that function
Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is
But what is not.
Starting with this speech, explain how far you think Shakespeare
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presents the witches’ prophecies as the main reason for Macbeth’s
downfall in the play.
Write about:
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DNA: Summarise what has happened directly before this speech takes place.
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Plenary: Choose one quote from the extract and analyse how the theme of
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The Supernatural: Key Scene (A3S4)
Read the following extract from Act 3 Scene 4 and then answer the question
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MACBETH
What man dare, I dare:
Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger;
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
5 Shall never tremble: or be alive again,
And dare me to the desert with thy sword;
If trembling I inhabit then, protest me
The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow!
Unreal mockery, hence!
10 GHOST OF BANQUO vanishes
Why, so: being gone,
I am a man again. Pray you, sit still.
LADY MACBETH
You have displaced the mirth, broke the good
meeting,
15 With most admired disorder.
Starting with this speech, explain how far you think Shakespeare
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presents hallucinations as the symbol of Macbeth’s guilt.
Write about:
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DNA: Summarise what has happened directly before this speech takes place.
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Plenary: Choose one quote from the extract and analyse how the theme of
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The Supernatural: Key Scene (A4S1)
Read the following extract from Act 4 Scene 1 and then answer the question
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SECOND APPARITION
5 Descends
MACBETH
Starting with this speech, explain how far you think Shakespeare
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presents Macbeth as manipulated by supernatural powers.
Write about:
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The Supernatural: Exam Practice
Choose one of the extracts that we have discussed as a class this week. Write
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Key Theme 3: Power and Corruption
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DNA: Read the contextual information in silence.
Plenary: List three relevant events from the play that demonstrate the theme
of power and corruption. Give reasons for your choices.
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Power and Corruption: Key Scene (A3S1)
Read the following extract from Act 3 Scene 1 and then answer the question
that follows.
MACBETH
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 fear'd: 'tis much he dares;
5 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,
10 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,
15 And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,
Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand,
No son of mine succeeding.
Starting with this speech, explain how far you think Shakespeare
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presents Macbeth as being obsessed with power in the play.
Write about:
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DNA: Summarise what has happened directly before this speech takes place.
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Plenary: Choose one quote from the extract and analyse how the theme of
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Power and Corruption: Key Scene (A3S6)
Read the following extract from Act 3 Scene 6 and then answer the question
that follows.
LORD
The son of Duncan,
From whom this tyrant holds the due of birth
Lives in the English court, and is received
Of the most pious Edward with such grace
5 That the malevolence of fortune nothing
Takes from his high respect: thither Macduff
Is gone to pray the holy king, upon his aid
To wake Northumberland and warlike Siward:
That, by the help of these—with Him above
10 To ratify the work—we may again
Give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights,
Free from our feasts and banquets bloody knives,
Do faithful homage and receive free honours:
All which we pine for now: and this report
15 Hath so exasperate the king that he
Prepares for some attempt of war.
Starting with this speech, explain how far you think Shakespeare
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presents Macbeth as a corrupt tyrant.
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Power and Corruption: Key Scene (A5S3)
Read the following extract from Act 5 Scene 3 and then answer the question
that follows.
MACBETH
Bring me no more reports; let them fly all:
Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,
I cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm?
Was he not born of woman? The spirits that know
5 All mortal consequences have pronounced me thus:
‘Fear not, Macbeth; no man that's born of woman
Shall e'er have power upon thee.' Then fly,
false thanes,
And mingle with the English epicures:
The mind I sway by and the heart I bear
10 Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.
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The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon!
Where got'st thou that goose look?
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Key Theme 4: Gender
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Plenary: List three relevant events from the play that demonstrate the theme
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Gender: Key Scene (A1S7)
Read the following extract from Act 1 Scene 7 and then answer the question
that follows.
MACBETH
Prithee, peace:
I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.
LADY MACBETH
5 What beast was't, then,
That made you break this enterprise to me?
When you durst do it, then you were a man;
And, to be more than what you were, you would
Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place
10 Did then adhere, and yet you would make both:
They have made themselves, and that their fitness now
Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know
How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
15 Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.
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Gender: Key Scene (A2S2)
Read the following extract from Act 2 Scene 2 and then answer the question
that follows.
LADY MACBETH
Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane,
You do unbend your noble strength, to think
So brainsickly of things. Go get some water,
5 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.
MACBETH
10 I'll go no more:
I am afraid to think what I have done;
Look on't again I dare not.
LADY MACBETH
Infirm of purpose!
15 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.
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Gender: Key Scene (A5S1)
Read the following extract from Act 5 Scene 1 and then answer the question
that follows.
LADY MACBETH
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
5 account?—Yet who would have thought the old man
to have had so much blood in him.
Doctor
Do you mark that?
LADY MACBETH
10 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.
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Key Theme 5: Fate and Free Will
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Fate and Free Will: Key Scene (A4S1)
Read the following extract from Act 4 Scene 1 and then answer the question
that follows.
Third Apparition
Be lion-mettled, proud; and take no care
Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are:
Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until
5 Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill
Shall come against him.
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MACBETH
That will never be
10 Who can impress the forest, bid the tree
Unfix his earth-bound root? Sweet bodements! good!
Rebellion's head, rise never till the wood
Of Birnam rise, and our high-placed Macbeth
Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath
15 To time and mortal custom. Yet my heart
Throbs to know one thing: tell me, if your art
Can tell so much: shall Banquo's issue ever
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Fate and Free Will: Key Scene (A5S5)
Read the following extract from Act 5 Scene 5 and then answer the question
that follows.
MACBETH
She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
5 To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
10 And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Enter a Messenger
Thou comest to use thy tongue; thy story quickly.
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Fate and Free Will: Key Scene (A5S8)
Read the following extract from Act 5 Scene 8 and then answer the question
that follows.
MACBETH
Accursed be that tongue that tells me so,
For it hath cow'd my better part of man!
And be these juggling fiends no more believed,
That palter with us in a double sense;
5 That keep the word of promise to our ear,
And break it to our hope. I'll not fight with thee.
MACDUFF
Then yield thee, coward,
And live to be the show and gaze o' the time:
10 We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are,
Painted on a pole, and underwrit,
'Here may you see the tyrant.'
MACBETH
I will not yield,
15 To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet,
And to be baited with the rabble's curse.
Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,
And thou opposed, being of no woman born,
Yet I will try the last. Before my body
20 I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,
And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'
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Macbeth Knowledge Organiser
Key Quotations
The witches: Fair is foul, and foul is fair, Hover through the fog an filthy air. (Act I, Scene i)
The witches: When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, When the battle 's lost and won. (Act I, Scene i)
Captain: 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 (Act I, Scene ii)
Banquo: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths (Act I scene iii)
Macbeth: This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good (Act I, Scene III)
Macbeth: If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me. (Act I, Scene III)
Macbeth: Stars hide your fires let not light see my black and deep desires. (Act I, Scene IV)
Lady Macbeth: Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness. (Act I, Scene V)
Lady Macbeth: Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't. (Act I, Scene V)
Lady Macbeth: Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, un-sex me here And fill me from the crown to the toe topfull Of direst cruelty (Act I, Scene v)
Macbeth: If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. (Act I, Scene vii)
Macbeth: I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself And falls on th’other. (Act I, Scene vii)
Macbeth: I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. (Act I, Scene vii)
Lady Macbeth: Screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we’ll not fail. (Act I, Scene vii)
Macbeth: Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? (Act II, Scene I)
Macbeth: Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? (Act II, Scene ii)
Lady Macbeth: My hands are of your colour, but I would shame to wear a heart so white. (Act ii, Scene ii)
Donalbain: There's daggers in men's smiles. (Act II, Scene iii)
Banquo: Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all., as the weird sisters promis’d, and I fear Thou hast play’d most foully for’t (Act III scene i)
Macbeth: Only for them, and mine eternal jewel Given to the common enemy of man, To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings! (Act III, Scene i)
Lady Macbeth: What’s done is done. Macbeth: We have scorch’d the snake, not kill’d it. (Act III, Scene ii)
Macbeth: O full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife! (Act III, Scene ii)
Macbeth: Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck. (Act III, scene Ii)
Macbeth: Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well (Act III, Scene Iii)
Macbeth: Thou canst not say I did it; never shake thy gory locks at me! (Act III, scene Iv)
The witches: By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. (Act IV, Scene i)
Second Apparition: Be bloody, bold and resolute. Laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth (Act IV, scene i)
Lady Macbeth: Out, damned spot! out, I say! (Act V, Scene i).
Lady Macbeth: Here’s the smell of blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. (Act V, Scene i)
Macbeth: To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. (Act V, Scene v)
Macbeth: Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying
nothing. (Act V, Scene v)
Macbeth: I bear a charmed life which must not yield To one of woman born. (Act V, Scene viii)
Macduff: Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripp’d. (Act V, Scene viii)
Malcolm: Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen (Act V, Scene ix)
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Plot summary
Act I scene i – The three witches gather to in a thunder storm to meet Macbeth Act III scene iii – Banquo is murdered but his son, Fleance, escapes.
Act I scene ii – Duncan hears reports of the battle in which Macbeth proves himself a hero and Act III scene iv – At a feast that night, Macbeth sees the ghost of Banquo. Lady Macbeth tries to
also of the treachery of the Thane of Cawdor. calm him down but when this fails cancels the feasts and sends the courtiers away.
Act I scene iii – Macbeth & Banquo meet the witches and hear the predictions that he will be Act III scene v – The witches discuss events so far; Hecate, the ruler of the witches, predicts his
Thane of Cawdor and the next king. Ross arrives to confirm that Macbeth is the new Thane of downfall.
Cawdor. Act III scene vi – suspicion of Macbeth is growing; Macduff has left for England to rouse support
Act I scene iv – Duncan decides to make his son Malcolm the heir to his throne and tells against him.
Macbeth that he will visit his castle. Act IV scene i – The witches tell Macbeth he cannot be harmed by anyone ‘born of a woman’
Act I scene v – Lady Macbeth reads a letter from her husband about the events so far and and that he will be safe until Birnam Wood moves to the castle at Dunsinane. Macbeth decides
makes up her mind to murder Duncan. to murder Macduff’s family.
Act I scene vi – Duncan arrives at Macbeth’s castle and is welcomed by Lady Macbeth. Act IV scene ii – Macbeth’s murderers kill Lady Macduff and her children.
Act I scene vii – Macbeth decides he cannot go through with the plot but Lady Macbeth Act IV scene iii – Macduff discovers his family’s murder and, with Malcolm, leads an army to
persuades him to change his mind. attack Macbeth.
Act II scene i – Banquo feels uneasy about what might happen in the night. Macbeth makes his Act V scene i – Lady Macbeth is sleep walking and trying to wash an imaginary blood spot from
way to Duncan’s room to kill him and sees a ghostly dagger floating in the air before him. her hands.
Act II scene ii – Macbeth forgets to leave the bloody daggers in Duncan’s room after the Act V scene ii – Malcolm’s army is at Birnam Wood and hear reports that Macbeth’s supporters
murder and Lady Macbeth is forced to take charge and put them back. are deserting him.
Act II scene iii – The next morning Duncan’s body is discovered by Macduff; Macbeth kills the Act V scene iii – Macbeth is besieged but puts his trust in the witches’ prophesy.
servants in pretend rage; Duncan’s sons, Malcolm & Donalbain, flee the castle. Act V scene iv – Malcolm orders his army to cut down branches from Birnam Wood to disguise
Act II scene iv – Macduff reports that suspicion for the murder has fallen on the kin’s sons; the number of soldiers.
Macbeth has travelled to Scone to be crowned. Act V scene v – Macbeth is told of his wife’s death and about the news that Birnam Wood seems
Act III scene i – Macbeth is now king, but Banquo is suspicious about how the witch’s to be approaching. He resolves to die fighting.
predications have come true. Macbeth arranges to have him murdered. Act V scene vi - viii – Macbeth is killed by Macduff (who reveals he was delivered by caesarean
Act III scene ii – LM tries to get Macbeth to talk to her about his plans but he refuses. and so not properly ‘born’). Malcolm becomes the new king of Scotland and order is restored.
Key characters Key themes Historical context Stylistic features and symbols
Macbeth Thane of Glamis Ambition: a negative quality • Macbeth was most likely written in 1606, early in the reign of James I, who had Blood – a symbol of guilt and violence
Lady Macbeth his wife that drives Macbeth’s downfall. been James VI of Scotland before he succeeded to the English throne in 1603. The supernatural –Shakespeare uses prophesy,
Banquo Macbeth’s best friend Power and corruption: Power • Only a century earlier, England had suffered under the massive disorder of the hallucinations, ghosts and magic to give the play a
Fleance Banquo’s son corrupts Macbeth into Wars of the Roses. Civil disorder was now seen as the ultimate disaster, an menacing, unnatural feel.
Duncan King of Scotland becoming a tyrant ungodly state. Macbeth’s rule represents this civil disorder as a time of chaos. Oxymoron – opposites & contradiction recur
Malcolm Duncan’s eldest son Supernatural: Witches and • Macbeth (or Mac Bethad) was a real Scottish king from 1040-1057. Additionally, throughout the play
Macduff – Thane of Fife hallucinations add to the chaos the witches’ prophecy that Banquo will found a line of kings is a links to King Pathetic fallacy – unnatural events are usually echoed
Lady Macduff his wife of Macbeth’s rule and make it James’s family’s claim to have descended from the historical Banquo. by unnatural weather
Donalbain Duncan’s younger son seem unreal and frightening. • The theme of bad versus good kingship, embodied by Macbeth and Duncan, Blank verse – non rhyming lines written in
Ross, Lennox, Angus Scottish Fate and free will: did the respectively, would have resonated at the royal court, where James was busy iambic pentameter (iam= a beat du duh; pent = five)
nobles witches control Macbeth or was developing his English version of the theory of the divine right of kings. Soliloquy – where a characters speaks their thoughts
Weird Sisters (the witches) his downfall the result of his • It was believed that kings were appointed by ‘divine right’ and were anointed by aloud to the audience
supernatural beings who predict own choices? God. To kill a king was considered the worst sin and a terrible crime. Monologue – a long speech by a single character
events in the play. Gender: how does LM’s • Macbeth is a tragedy and the character of Macbeth is a tragic hero, a man who Dramatic irony – when the audience knows more than
Hecate goddess of the witches relationship with Macbeth began nobly but is driven to his downfall by a fatal flaw (ambition) and is defeated a character or characters do
reflect Elizabethan norms? at the hands of his nemesis (Macduff).
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