Controlled Assessement

Controlled Assessement

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   • Introduction
     • Good and Evil contrast with Love and Hate
     • Both Tradgedys
     • Sense of Forboding
     • Ominous
     • Conflict
     • One dark, One more innocent

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   • Family Fued
     • Been going on for generations
     • Even the servents fight

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   • Conflict of Mind
     • Soliloquy
       • Conflicting thoughts/Feelings
         • Realzlies The king has done a lot for him and that he should be grateful
       • Reasons he Shouldnt kill Duncan
         • Theyre Relatives
         • He is the host and should prtect his visitors (irony)
         • He is a subject of the king so he should be a loyal servent
       • "It were done done quickly: if the Assasination....."
         • Recognises his intentions are a crime
         • Contemplates if he can do the dreadful deed
           • Trying to Build up the Courage
           • Must rush the deed and think later if he is ever going to do it
           • He will only kill duncan if he can conquer his own conscience first

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   • Party Scene (apposing Familys)
     • "O dear account! my life is my foes debt"
       • Emotional Conflict due to family feud
         • Emotions constantly high due to the fued (servents even fight)
       • Fell in love with someone he shouldnt have
       • Metaphor
         • Debt = Very costly

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   • Perssuasive Speech (Lady Macbeth)
     • "Beast"
       • inhuman/less than human
       • Animalistic
     • "When you durst do it, then you were a man"
       • Sexual attack on his man hood
       • Tanunting him as a man
         • Lady Macbeths actress would emphasise actions and stand right in front of him and pound out the words
       • Manipulation
       • Shows her power (link to stereotypes/context)
       • Conveys Macbeth as weak and a coward
     • Motherly Vocab
       • "Tender,Babe,Milks,Smiling"
         • "Have Plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed his brains out"
           • Contrasts with motherly Vocab
           • 'Dashed' = Graphic verb (dehuman) and shows it was full of force
           • Reverses the nurturing role of a mother and suggests evil which will result is gasps from the audience
     • "If we should fail?"
       • The question suggests hes going through with it due to her perssuasion
       • Given up (succumd) to her powers of persuation
         • She won the power struggle (unusal for the time)
           • shows how she is not submissive
       • Actor would whisper
       • Cowardly , Backed down

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   • Murder Scene
     • "Resembled my father as he slept"
       • Still humanity in her
         • Chink in her armor
           • Element of conscience
       • C/R Calling of Evil spirits
     • "Macbeth doth murder sleep"
       • Killed his sleep which is his peace of mind
       • Forever haunt his conscince because of the guilt
     • "I couldnt say 'amen' !"
       • absolute state of panic
         • absorbed in the horror of the sin/crime
       • Forever haunt his conscience
       • Religious context
         • Devine right of kings

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   • Lady Capulet and Juliet Relationship
     • "Ho! daughter"
       • Not on a first name basis
       • no tender or kindness
     • "With Romero, till i behold him dead"
       • Double Meaning
         • Mom thinks she wants him dead and it appears as is she wants revenge
           • Shows gap in relationship
             • Context (Nurse)
         • Confessing love for Romeo
           • will never be tire of Romeo until he is dead (when thye are hopefully old)
         • Shows her intelligence
           • Pretending to agree with her mother to keep the secret
   • Capulet and Juliet
     • "Have you deliver'd to her our decree?"
       • Shows authority
       • No choice in situation and she is not involved
         • Context (submissive)
     • "Hoe! will she none? Doth she not give us thanks?"
       • Questioning (Rhetorical)
         • Asserts that he is confused
         • implying she should do it (expectations)
         • Element of Sarcasm
     • "Drag thee on a hurdle thither"
       • Not bothered about upsetting/shamming her
       • Context (people being hung/shaming)
       • Audience can visualize him coldheartedly and forcefuly dragng her to church
     • "Tallow face, Fettle, Grace"
       • Animalistic imagery
         • Demoralizes his own daughter by impying that her dishour is unworthy of humaan description
         • link to how lady macbeth uses this to manipulate Macbeth
       • Angry and insulting language to get across feelings
     • "Good Father I bessech you on my Knees"
       • Lower than him
         • Shows his power
       • Good Father = Still polite
       • Helpless/Submissive
         • Demonstrates her inferiortity to the audience
     • "My fingers Itch"
       • On stage, Capulet toweing over her clenching his fists
         • Stature on stage would be a clever representation of how highly he thought og himself
       • Audience shocked
     • "And you be not, hand , beg , starve die in the streets"
       • Clauses used to slow down pace to show seriousness
       • Monosyllabic
       • Shocking to modern Audeince
       • Final Ultimation
       • Pound out words on stage ( link to Lady Macbeth)
       • No full stops shows anger (rambelling)
       • Context: disowning was the norm
       • change from concerned parent in act 1 scene 2
         • "My child is yet a stanger to the world"
           • Mood change when authority challenged
             • Link to Act 1 Scene 5 ( Capulet and Tybalt)
               • Tybalt uses shsort sentances to show anger
               • Capulet speaks more to assert Authority
               • "Am i the master here or you?
                 • He doesnt like his Authority being questioned
                   • Can see his potential bad anger
                   • Ominous and Foreboding
       • Impulsive, Cruel, Reckless Behaviour
     • end of the scence juliet mentions sucicide = Lady Macbeth

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   • SleepWalking Scene
     • "Will these hands ne'er be clean?"
       • Gone out of her mind trying to clean her hands of the deed
         • Never free of guilt as the guilt has stained her mind and tourtured her conscience forever
           • Cross Reference to Act 2 Scene 2
             • "Go get some water and wash this filithy witness from your hand"
               • Can Wash away blood and not guilt
             • Dramatic Irony
             • "A little Water clears us of this deed"
               • Practical and managing it
                 • Keeping emotions in check
                   • Reducing Situation
           • Mind Deranged from starin

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   • Both Result in Death
     • Romeo,Juliet and Lady MAcbeth suicide
     • Macbeth Killed
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     • Conclusion
       • Which play i enjoyed most
         • Relate to child and parent relatinship
           • Characters our Age
         • Arranged Marriages
       • Response