Please read through all of this and FOLLOW ALL of it
You must do 3 paragraphs with different points.
*Relevant scenes to use*
Your answer must focus on the extract (Act 1, Scene 5) and refer to ‘elsewhere in the play’.
In the following scenes, Lady M is portrayed in a similar way to Act 1 Scene 5:
Act 1 Scene 7 – Lady M uses different methods to try to persuade M to go through with her plan
Act 2 Scene 2 – Lady M is angry with M for not planting the daggers on the servants
In the following scenes, Lady M is portrayed quite differently:
Act 2 Scene 3 – Lady M faints (or is this fake, in which case perhaps this scene shows her in a similar light to earlier scenes?)
Act 5 Scene 1 – the sleepwalking scene; Lady M is clearly starting to become unstable/feel guilty/remorseful
Other scenes featuring Lady M (probably not as useful for your assessment): Act 3 Scene 2, Act 3 Scene 4
Choose evidence from at least 3 different scenes. To excel, you should choose evidence from multiple scenes but this doesn’t mean you have to make a different point each time. For example, you could make a point about Lady M’s character and support it with evidence from two different scenes in a PETAETAL paragraph.
Must use this format for the paragraphs
PETAETAL:
Point
Must use this format for the paragraphs
PETAETAL:
Point
Evidence (Quote 1)
Technique and Analysis
Evidence (Quote 2)
Technique and Analysis
Link
(PETAETAL is used when you are doing a comparative, analysis essay. When you are talking about two or more texts/quotes then in one paragarph you need to talk about the texts/quotes. Like in PETAL you are only discussing one text, PETAETAL discusses two. Reemeber P-point, E-evidence, T-technique, A-analysis and L-link. The ETA is repeated for the comparitive essay. YOU DO NOT REPEAT P and L. Remember you apply the PETAL and PETAETAL on ALL your BODY PARAGRAPHs.)
Examples of point sentences:
In this extract, Lady Macbeth is presented as…
Later in the play/In Act x Scene y, Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as…
This contrasts with her …(instability/fragility/overwhelming guilt)… Later in the play, for example in
Things to use for your link sentences *IMPORTANT TO FOLLOW*:
How would a Jacobean/Shakespearean audience react to this portrayal of a woman? (Context)
Does this contrast with the presentation of Lady Macbeth elsewhere in the play? Or is this characterisation consistent?
Are we surprised by this portrayal of Lady Macbeth? (In the earlier scenes, by her masculinity/dominance etc; in later scenes, by her loss of control/ instability/overwhelming guilt?
Good quotes to consider from Act 1 Scene 5
Good quotes to consider from Act 1 Scene 5
Come, you spirits
That tends on mortal thoughts, unsex me here…
“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…
Come to my woman’s breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers…
Good quotes to consider from Act 2 Scene 2
“That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; / What hath quench’d them hath given me fire.” – lines 1-2
“I have drugged their possets” – line7 (showing that she has played an active role in the murder)
“Hark! I laid their daggers ready; / He could not miss ’em.” – lines 12-13
“Had he not resembled / My father as he slept, I had done’t.” – lines 13-14 (you could use this to show a contrasting side to her character)
“Go get some water and wash this filthy witness from your hand” – lines 46-47
“Infirm of purpose! / Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead / Are but as pictures…” – lines 55-57
“My hands are of your colour, but I shame / to wear a heart so white.” – lines 67-68
Good quotes to consider from Act 2 Scene 3
Good quotes to consider from Act 2 Scene 3
“What’s the business, / That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley / The sleepers of the house?” lines 86-88
“Help me hence, ho!” lines 124 (when she faints)
“What’s the business, / That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley / The sleepers of the house?” lines 86-88
“Help me hence, ho!” lines 124 (when she faints)
Good quotes to consider from Act 5 Scene 1
“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!” line 39
“Yet who would have thought / the old man to have so much blood in him?”43-44
“What, will these hands ne’er be clean?” line 48
“Here’s the smell of blood still: all the / perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little / hand. Oh, oh, oh!” lines 57-59
“What’s done cannot be undone” line 74
Some useful vocabulary to use:
Character traits:
Ambitious
Gentle
Supportive
Two-faced
Nurturing
Loyal
Decision-maker
Powerful
Manipulative
Dominant
Obedient
Blasphemous
Treacherous (a traitor)
Deceitful
Unstable
Weak
Cold-blooded
Evil
Ruthless
Ruthless
Fearless
Feminine
Masculine
Commanding
Superior
Controlling
Authoritative
Violent
Aggressive
Fierce
Remorseful
Guilty
Fragile
The way in which Lady M treats Macbeth:
Patronising/patronises
Denigrating/denigrates
Belittling/belittles
Scolding/scolds
Flatters
Other vocab:
Patriarchal society
Stereotypical
Societal expectations
Disgrace
Shame
Embarrassed
Retribution
Vengeance
Jacobean
Shakespearean
BRIEF Assessment Foci:
RAF5: To explain and comment on writers’ use of language, including grammatical and literary features at the word and sentence level
RAF7: To relate texts to their social, cultural and historical traditions
you must refer to the context to score highly, especially in the link!
please also follow the mark scheme (attached) and aim for the SE grade (significantly exceeding)
USE MY ATTACHMENTS PLEASE ESPECIALLY THE ANALYSED QUOTES AND LINES TO USE IN ACT 1 SCENE 5 (WHERE YOU SHOULD FOCUS)
I ALSO ATTACHED SOME SCENES TEXT FOR YOU
THANK YOU
I ALSO ATTACHED SOME SCENES TEXT FOR YOU
THANK YOU