MACBETH By William Shakespeare
The following past papers were used to compile these notes:
NSC_ DBE/November 2023, SC/NSC JUN DBE/2023, EC/SEPTEMBER 2023, SC/NSC SEP
DBE/2022, EC/NOVEMBER 2020, EC/NOVEMBER 2022, NSC DBE/November 2019, SCE
DBE/2018. Inter-District paper English FAL P2 May/June 2...
The following past papers were used to compile these notes:
NSC_ DBE/November 2023, SC/NSC JUN DBE/2023, EC/SEPTEMBER 2023, SC/NSC SEP
DBE/2022, EC/NOVEMBER 2020, EC/NOVEMBER 2022, NSC DBE/November 2019, SCE
DBE/2018. Inter-District paper English FAL P2 May/June 2024.
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Content
Elizabethen society 3
Characters 4
Themes
Fate vs free will 13
Appearance vs reality 14
Guilt and its consequences 15
Kingship vs tyranny 15
Gender issues 16
Reversal of values 16
Diction and figurative language 17
ESSAY QUESTIONS
Initially Lady Macbeth is depicted as a 18
powerful, ruthless, ambitious woman who
manipulates her husband into killing the
king in order for them be crowned king and
queen.
Money, rather than characters, is what 19
determines the outcome of the play.
Who is to blame for Macbeth’s downfall? 20
Macbeth’s decline to a man ‘supped full 21
with horrors’ is due to the influences of
others on his character
Contextual questions 23 - 48
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