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Main Events in Act 1
Act 1
Scene 1
Scene 2
What happens in Act 1?
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
Scene 6
Scene 7
Main Events in Act 2
Main Events in Act 3
Main Events in Act 4
Main Events in Act 5
What are the turning points?
Context – key words – regicide/gender/supernatural/kingship
What do you know about James 1? Why was he important to
Shakespeare? How was he different to Elizabeth 1?
What do you know about attitudes towards women at the time?
What does the phrase the ‘divine right of kings’ mean?
How is the natural order disrupted in Macbeth?
King James 1
• James I had been King of England for 3 years when the
play was first performed (1606).
• It is popularly believed that he was in the first
audience.
• James considered himself to be a descendant of
Banquo (though this is debated by historians).
• James I promoted the concept of the divine right of
kings: the monarch is appointed by God and, therefore,
any opposition to him was considered sacrilegious.
• ‘Macbeth’ was written one year after the Gunpowder
Plot - an attempt to kill James within the House of
Lords.
Context Miss Cole
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQBaZ0Z9k
zU&t=147s
Adjectives to describe Macbeth
The War ‘Hero’
For brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name-Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd 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 unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,
And fix'd his head upon our battlements.
The Tragic Hero - Aristotle
• He must be one who is highly renowned and
prosperous- a personage like Oedipus,
Thyestes, or other illustrious men of such
families. A well-constructed plot should,
therefore, be single in its issue, rather than
double as some maintain. The change of
fortune should be not from bad to good, but,
reversely, from good to bad. It should come
about as the result not of vice, but of some
great error or frailty
Macbeth – tragic hero
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How is he presented at the start of the play?
Who or what convinces him to kill Duncan?
How does he feel after he has killed the king?
What causes him to have Banquo murdered?
What does the banquet scene in Act 3 show the
audience about his mental state?
• How does he feel when he goes back to see the
witches?
• How does he respond to his wife’s death?
• What is he like in the final battle?
Macbeth as a Tragic Hero
Tragic Hero Conventions
Member of the nobility
Fatal flaw (harmatia)
and/or pride (hubris)
Mental and/or physical
suffering
Provokes pity and fear for
the audience
How does it apply to
Macbeth?
Two sides to Macbeth
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Brave
Valiant
Noble
Loving
Courageous
Determined
War hero
Ambitious
Conscience stricken
Proud
Respected
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Ruthless
Cruel
Deceitful
Easily persuaded
Violent
Insane
Callous
Nihilistic
Brutal
Over-ambitious
Proud
Point
Evidence
Macbeth is brave in battle
Duncan describes Macbeth At this moment of the
as ‘..’
play…
This would make the
audience…
Shakespeare wants to
show Macbeth is…
He is tempted by ambition
‘black and deep desires’ –
to be king
He is led and manipulated
by his wife
She tells him ‘Leave all the
rest to me’
Macbeth has hallucinations
He regrets killing Duncan
He is not afraid to die
Explanation
Learn
• Macbeth is a brave and valiant soldier ready to die for
his king, Duncan
• However the prophecies have a powerful effect on
him, especially when he learns the first has come true
and he becomes the Thane of Cawdor
• He is easily persuaded to agree to murder Duncan
• He often appears weak – starts to have visions and asks
lots of questions, cannot make a decision and unsure
of himself
• Panics just after the murder – has to rely on Lady
Macbeth
Learn
• Later he appears more in control and less reliant
on his wife
• Plans to murder Banquo without even telling his
wife. Ignores his visions and makes decisions
quickly – gives orders rather than asks questions
• At times is full of confidence, seems to ignore the
death of his wife
• When he realises he will also die, he ‘will not
yield’ and fights to the end
Diamond 9
• Cut out the shapes
• Order them in a diamond
• Put the event you think is the most significant
to Macbeth’s character becoming evil at the
top
Lady Macbeth
• Mind map adjectives to describe Lady
Macbeth
• What would the audience expect Lady
Macbeth to be like based on the women at
the time?
Context - The role of women
• Jacobean society was patriarchal. Women were regarded as
both physically and emotionally ‘weaker’, needing a
husband to look after them
• The man was considered to be the head of a marriage and
his family.
• Though he had the legal right to chastise his wife, abuse
could lead to prosecution.
• Married couples were not able to get divorced.
• Jobs were clearly gendered. In ordinary families, men were
the ‘breadwinners’ while women were housewives and
mothers. Though some worked as cooks or maids, women
were not allowed to become lawyers, doctors, politicians
etc.
Lady Macbeth - Ambitious wife
• What are her concerns at the beginning of the
play?
• How does she ask the evil spirits to change her?
• How does she persuade Macbeth to kill King
Duncan?
• What is her role in the King’s murder?
• How does she feel once she has become queen?
• What is her role in the banquet scene in Act 3?
• How is she presented as going mad in Act 5?
Point
Lady Macbeth is ambitious
She manipulates her
husband
She is calculating
She shows no remorse
She sees Macbeth as a
coward
Lady Macbeth is powerful
She becomes deranged
Evidence
Explanation
At this point in the play
Lady Macbeth is…
This would make the
audience…
Shakespeare wants to
show…
Sympathy?
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Lonely
Remorse
Childless
Possessed by the
witches
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• Guilt drives her mad
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Manipulative
Deceitful
Cunning
Controlling
Lack of human feeling
Overly ambitious
10 Key Quotations
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sQUS_H
EDPQ
Macbeth – our core 6
• ‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’ (1.1)
• Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black
and deep desires’ (1.3)
• ‘Look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent
under’t’ (1.5)
• Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this bllod
clean from my hand?’ (2.2)
• ‘From this moment, the very firstlings of my heart
shall be/The firstling of my hand.’ (4.1)
• ‘Out, damned spot! Out I say!’ (5.1)
Image only
Clues only
Shakespeare – 10 mins reading and annotating
+ 40 minutes writing
Begin sentences with…
How does Shakespeare
present Macbeth as a hero?
In the extract …
In the play as a whole
Key words
Macbeth Play Acts
Scenes Audience soliloquy
pathetic fallacy
dramatic irony
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Arguably
Certainly
Clearly
Notably
Surely
Consequently
Obviously
Indisputably
Perhaps
Possibly
Probably
Writing a topic sentence should establish the
topic of the paragraph using the key question
words
Exam Question: How does Shakespare present
Lady Macbeth?
Topic Sentence: Shakespeare uses a simile ‘…’ to
present Lady Macbeth as evil, dishonest and
manipulative.
The writer uses SUBJECT TERMINOLOGY
‘…’
EFFECTS
Grade 1-3
Grade 4-5
Grade 6+
Lady Macbeth is very
persuasive in the
extract as she says
‘unsex me here’
showing that she
wants to be made
stronger. Later in the
play, she isn’t as
strong and she
commits suicide.
Obviously, Lady Macbeth is a
strong character as the
beginning of this extract as she
describes Duncan’s entrance as
‘fatal’ straight after hearing he
will becoming to her castle.
The adjective ‘Fatal’
foreshadows the murder she is
planning. This shows that Lady
Macbeth is capable of making
decisions without her husband
to support her and
demonstrates her power.
Following this extract …
Clearly Lady Macbeth’s power is
blatant at the beginning of this extract
as she describes Duncan’s entrance as
‘fatal’ straight after hearing he will be
coming to her castle. This adjective
‘Fatal’ marks the act of regicide that
she is planning to commit, This
conveys a sense of power because she
is capable of making instant decisions
with out her husband to support her
which is usual for a female
Shakespearian character but not
typical for a woman of the time.
Directly after this…
How are the A0s addressed in a question?
Starting with this scene how does Shakespeare
present the relationship between Macbeth and
Lady Macbeth?
• How is the relationship presented in this
scene?
• How is it presented in the play as a whole?
The Extract question – 50 minutes
• You MUST explore both the extract and the whole text
• Highlight the key words in the question
• Write the focus of the question at the top of the
extract
• Read the extract (x2) highlight and label key points that
link to the question
• Find at least 4/5 quotations from the extract to write
about
• Plan - list key moments from the rest of the play that
must link to the question
Essay plan
• Introduction – briefly explore the issue raised in the
question
• At least 3 extended paragraphs.
• Begin by exploring and analysing the extract then zoom
out to the rest of the play
• Include relevant social and historical contextual details
• Conclusion – Link back to your opening point –
summarise deeper messages brought up by the
question.
• Start with ‘Overall,’ ‘Ultimately’ ‘In conclusion’
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;
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 murder'd;
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 seed of Banquo kings!
Rather than so, come fate into the list.
And champion me to the utterance! Who's there!