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Macbeth Essay Ideas (with quotes and analysis)
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Essay Mindmaps for GCSE English Lit students studying Macbeth. Includes essay ideas with suitable quotes and analysis for each of them.
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REVISE BIG IDEAS IN MACBETHAmbition is toxic Don’t trust the supernatural
Guilt is inescapable Sinners will be punished
Kings should be
Appearances are deceptive
honourable
5. Think of 2 places in the play 6. Write down 4 quotations 7. Explain Shakespeare’s
which link to each big idea. that link to each big idea. intentions by referring to
Jacobean context.
, ‘only vaulting ambition which 1.5. ‘Art not without ambition, 1.3. ‘If chance will have me king
overleaps itself and falls’ but without The illness should why chance may crown me’
Ambition is leading Macbeth attend it. LM views ambition as a Macbeth thinks he can sit and
down a dangerous path disease which Macbeth lacks. wait for fate to make his
ambitions to come true
‘Take my milk for gall’
Lady Macbeth wants
Ambition is toxic 1.3. ‘Stars hide your fires
let not light see my black
her femininity to be and deep desires’
replaced with poison ‘O full of scorpions is my Upon my head they placed a
fruitless crown’ Macbeth realises he must
to increase her mind’ Macbeth’s
ambition continues to Macbeth’s ambition goes unchecked kill to realise his deadly
ambitious streak even when he becomes king as he ambitions.
sting him even when he
becomes king now wants Banquo dead.
Will all great Neptune’s ocean 3.4. ‘Never shake thy gory
‘Macbeth doth murder wash this blood clean? locks at me’ Hallucination
sleep’ Macbeth feels instant Hyperbole stresses Macbeth’s is a symptom of Macbeth’s
guilt over Duncan’s murder guilt over killing Duncan. guilt over Banquo’s murder
‘A little water clears Guilt is inescapable 5.1. ‘All the perfumes
us of this deed’ of Arabia will not
Lady Macbeth seems Out damned spot! sweeten this little
to think guilt can be I am in blood Stepp'd in so far’ Out I say! Lady hand’ Lady Macbeth’s
removed. Later she Macbeth feels guilt over his Macbeth guilt leads guilt is delayed but
finds she was wrong. crimes but realises it is too her to see imaginary more disabling than
late to go back blood on her hands. Macbeth’s
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