GCSE English Literature for AQA Macbeth Student Book (GCSE English Literature AQA)

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Again, for the highest marks, examiners want to see that you can contextualise the extract: to know what part of the play it comes from. ifoundeffectivewastolookatcharacterjourneys,sointhisway,Icouldchooseacoupleofquotesfrommacbethatthestart,atthemiddle,andattheendoftheplay,andcompareandevaluate. Each text guide is based on our ‘active’ approach to revision – giving students lots of tips and tricks to help the knowledge (and those tricky quotations!

Note that you can also use quotes from Macbeth and Lady Macbeth referring to Duncan and the murder (shown in their sections of this guide). Theverb"wash"demonstratesMacbeth'surgetobecleansedfromhissinsand"myhands"hasaposessivepronounwhichshowsMacbethtakingresponsibilityforhisactions.Termination of the Agreement (howsoever occasioned) shall not affect any accrued rights or liabilities of either party. Shakespeare makes them speak in riddles and concoct potions on stage to ensure they appear sinister to the audience.

Though there is plenty of evidence for this in the play, and there are commentators who see it this way, a more common interpretation is that Macbeth seized the throne because he was ambitious for power.

But, gentle heavens, cut short all intermission; front to front bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself; within my sword’s length set him; if he ‘scape, heaven forgive him too! Macbeth Text Guide – the ultimate guide, packed with stacks of essential notes and practice questions. You may have noticed that many of the quotations in this guide also appear in our guide to the themes in Macbeth. Let every soldier hew him down a bough and bear’s before him: thereby shall we shadow the numbers of our host and make discovery err in report of us.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. In this post you will find everything you need to know about the characters, as well as some key quotations to remember.Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty! The Service provides online access to a range of titles published by Coordination Group Publications Ltd. each new morn new widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows strike heaven on the face, that it resounds as if it felt with Scotland and yell’d out like syllable of dolour.