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Charlie cooperENGLISH GCSE GRADE 9/A** MABETH NOTES
STARTER: SHAKESPEARE CONEXT
What can you remember about the era of Shakespeare?
- His female characters were all played by mem
- He wrote midsummer-night’s dream
- He wrote Romeo and Juliet
- He wrote Camelot
- He was a playwright
- He wrote Macbeth
- Queen Elizabeth the first was the longest raining monarch at that time and adored her
people and William Shakespeare himself
- Queen Elizabeth had no children because she was ‘married’ to her country, therefore the
tudor era died with her
- He grew up in Stratford Upon Avon in England
- His plays were performed at the 9-globe theatre
- When the queen passed, her nephew, whose mother and Elizabeth’s sister was beheaded by
her.
- James the first was hated by everyone in England
- He wrote a book called Daemonologie
- James the first was terrified of witchcraft, it was rumoured that this is why the main theme
of Macbeth was witchcraft
- Macbeth was very unlucky to see
- Shakespeare wrote Macbeth personally for James the first
- James the first had a very large amount of assassination attempts due to the population of
England not liking him at all
JACOBEAN ERA
- James the first was also james the sixth of Scotland
- James was very intelligent
- Openly bisexual
- England and Scotland were reunited because of James
- In 1605, two and a half tonnes of gunpowder were placed in the parliament
- Fawkes terroism ways made people thought about catholic and anticatholic and the Queens
protestant relgion
- James was scared of if there was no bishop there was no king
- He believed he was gods deputy. He believed of the divine right of kings – the belief that god
was the person who put you on the throne
- James was baffled by common law
- England believed to be a good ruler you had to be popular
- Brought in the treatment of tobacco
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The queen was not liked in the beginning until the victory of Spanish Armada. She was a protestant
who never married. She died march 24th 1603 and the heir of the throne was questioned then it
came to her nephew.
MORE CONTEXT ON JAMES THE FIRST:
- James the first was suspicious as the ruler of the country by the people themselves
- The book written by king james the first was called Daemonologie which written in 1603
contained contents of witchcraft, sorcery, sprits, and magic.
- He asserted his full beliefs about the supernatural
- He described the punishment that practising witchcraft would have – death
- He encouraged and tried them all for murder
- In the 1600 hundreds there was no science or technology to explain the spread of illnesses
and diseases, crop failures and natural disasters and the witches became the blame
(scrapegoat)
- Believed that they could see in the future, create storms – hail, thunder ,which would create
havoc and that were able to kill people
FOUR KEY WORDS YOU NEED FOR YOUR ESSAY
Equivocation- The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth (a half truth)- language
Paradox – A seemingly contradictory statement which may prove to hold some truth (fair is foul and
foul is fair) – language
Trochaic Tetrameter – A meter in poetry. A line will have four trochaic feet and eight syallable if its
written in trochaic tetrameter
Hamartia – someone’s downfall
ACT ONE SCENE ONE –
Three witches plan to meet with Macbeth on the heath after the fighting has finished, but before the
sun sets.
‘in thunder, lightning or in rain’ – trocharic tetrameter, rhyming couplets and pathetic fallacy,
witches were believed to make storms – ominous atmosphere
‘when the hurley burlys done, when the battles lost and won’ – paradox, rhyming couplets due to
them being different
‘Hover through the fog and filthy air’ – paradox – evil and goodness can be combined in a way were
not meant to understand
ACT ONE SCENE TWO—
- Scene starts with king Duncan and his two sons : Malcom and Duncan
- Injured captin is telling story about Macbeth
- Macbeth chopped of McDonwalds head
- Macbeth is the reason they won
- Macbeth was never scared, fought the army with twice the force
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