ENGLISH LITERATURE

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Specification:

PAPER 1 - Macbeth & Jekyll and Hyde (1 hour & 45 min)

PAPER 2 - AIC, poetry anthology & unseen poetry (2 hours & 15 min)

MACBETH

given small extract and answer question on it - one question i.e how it presents power of Lady Macbeth

presents the ... as a whole of the play - i.e quotes from different parts of play presenting... as...(mention middle and end, remember quotes)

different ways of presenting is through setting- i.e foreshadowing/ representing characters

quotes~

'fair is foul, foul is fair' = its fair for Macbeth but hes done a wrong deed to fulfil his share of fairness/ his foul actions will come back to him thus its fair/ like a nursery rhyme suggesting that they are like innocent children who are usually trouble makers but don't realise it thus playing innocent/ witches are neutral not mean they are playing fair but Macbeth's greed and insanity causes him to take the desison and make foul decisions/ juxtaposition means that they are indecisive however they shouldn't be because they predict everything and are all knowing yet they are unclear meaning that Macbeth's makes the decision

(enter three witches) - stage direction = Shakespear usually doesn't use stage directions but in this case he has to have an impact on the audience at the time because they had a fear of supernatural at that time thus grasps attention/ automatically audience have distaste and assume nothing good will come

'meet in lightening, thunder and rain' = witches have access to manipulate Macbeth is because hes filled with dark and that turmoil where evil resides, he has conflict within him due to his good and bad fighting thus storm resides within him, so they can easily meet him/ a long as there's Macbeth the good weather will never come, he is the darkness, hes the source/ foreshadows all the events that will happen in those weather such as Duncan's murder and the first sign of lady Macbeth's insanity/also they will meet again meaning that trouble will happen again because they are never good news also that foreshadows Macbeth will do something horrible in that influence

'hover through the fog' = hover represents that the either witches intentions are unclear or they are unclear of what is going to happen which contradicts the idea of them making a prediction/ fog emphasises intentions being unclear , witches are mysterious/ Macbeth has lost his way, darkness filled, the light isn't no longer visible

'ere the set of sun' = set of the sun means it has gone down representing the deaths that have occurred in the battle/ foreshadows the death to come/ all the evil deeds to happen in the night, the dark in secrecy after the good light sun has gone from this battle, the battle where Macbeth was loyal but then he got lost at night due to the darkness

'when the battles lost and won' = suggesting that when Macbeth loses they could win in terms that they have led him to his destruction so they have won/ or the traitor war where Macbeth won but then lost his inner battle of right and wrong/ one side has won and the other has lost

'when the hurlyburlys done' = there will be peace after all the storm and chaos, they will create the trouble, it's like a chant that they are putting on Mcbetha

(deserted place) - stage directions = represents Macbeth's isolation and loneliness due to killing his close friend Banquo and Lady Macbeth killing herself due to guilt, he has become empty and useless haunted, unwanted and evil, incomplete and doesn't care about his self or his actions anymore

'upon the heath' = Macbeth is untamed, gone wild and out of control, barren useless and emphasise empty again