GCSE English Macbeth complete + detailed Grade 9 notes (the only revision resource you will need)
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Providing full, detailed analysis of the GCSE English Literature play Macbeth. This revision resource contains all the information needed for your exam with notes from numerous Youtube Videos, websites, classes and my own Grade 9 knowledge - saving you days worth of time and effort so all you need ...
GRADE 9 Macbeth Notes for GCSE English
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, Ambition is shown when Macbeth
Macbeth Character Analysis Macbeth at start of play: Cawdor but ‘nothing is but what
o Well respected Is downfall encouraged by society? Society demands
- Tragic hero, downfall caused by hamartia (his ‘vaulting ambition’) o Brave Metaphor + paradox, cannot celeb
barbarian, warrior – like men = violence is praised =
o Loyal Macbeth only being what society wants him to be? power (king) like in prophecy, only
Act 1, Scene 2 / start of play Susceptible to being controlled? o Courageous are important
‘brave Macbeth’ ’ Makes him vulnerable? o Trust-worthy
‘the nave to th’ chops’ ‘bloody execution’ ‘valiant cousin, worthy gentleman’
(cutting him open from the nave to th’ chops, gory + violent, shows the violent world in play, prove themselves worthy of honor by violence, also seen when the Siward Before Duncan’s murder starts ha
is glad his sons wounds were at the front not back. Shows violence and cruelty Macbeth is capable of + rewarded for violence by being named Thane of Cawdor, is he so ‘is this a dagger which I see befor
wrong for killing other people + King? human like other victims, caused by society? How do we deem those worth killing? my hand?’
Dagger = violent, brutal, regici
‘Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and if he’s hallucinating = unstable
Duncan calls Macbeth ‘noble’ and later Banquo calls him his ‘noble partner’
deep desires’ fully accountable as mentally
Contemplating carrying out act of regicide, greatest sin handle pointing towards him,
This high description makes his later actions more uncharacteristic + unfamiliar
could commit due to Divine Right, disrespecting god, control of his own actions) OR
Act 1 , Scene 3 blasphemous sin, condemning soul to hell controlled, by witches? ‘so fou
Dagger taunting him + beckon
‘so foul and fair a day’
• Fricatives, paradox, mirrors witches, mirrors malice + evil associated with them? ‘he was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust’ + ‘O deepest desires and what he t
worthiest cousin’ – Duncan about M 1:4, shows appearances vs doing this?
reality “whose murder is yet but fantastical” Interrogative = shows how de
Reactions to witches prophecy
Banquo acts as a foil in play, he contrasts with Macbeth, parallels at start of play (both fight for king + given predictions + promised greatness but react differently else’s opinion (like LM + witche
accountable?
Banquo Macbeth
’fatal vision’
Fate or fatal, fate or fatal for w
Skeptical, wary, a joke, humourous Intrigued, mesmerized, desire to know more
‘marshall’st me the way that I wa
‘neither beg nor fear your favours nor your hate’ ‘Tell me more.’ Guiding / beckoning him but ju
already going this way regardl
‘have we eaten on the insane root’, disbelief, dismissing it, hallucination Repetition of imperative verbs ‘tell’ ‘speak’ Doesn’t need witches or lady
him?
‘[Aside], My thought, whose murder is yet but fantastical’ causes his ‘seated
Macbeth acts differently to Banquo as his promotion is proof, believes the heart to knock at my ribs’ (murder just a fantasy (imagination or desire?) yet CAUSED BY GUILT OR CONSEQUEN
witches due to society believing in them (including James I, published book causes physical reaction, excited or nervous? Longing or desperation? Heart JUSTICE?
called Demonology) + his unspoken desire, perhaps Banquo would act beating fast
different is he was not deemed ‘lesser than Macbeth’ + destined for royalty
himself ‘My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten’, appearance vs reality
Lady Macbeth never told or sug
HOWEVER, at end of 1:3, Macbeth says ‘chance may my crown me without my stir’ + ‘we will proceed no further in this business’ so he will leave it up to fate to make
Banquo, only involved with Dun
decision for him however argument comes up if fate and predestination need conscious effort or not. BUT LM encourages him by wanting to ‘pour my spirits in thine
leave this”, M not fully innocent
ear’ as he is ‘too full o’th’milk of human kindness’ + she targets his masculinity (societies insecurity ) as he should ‘be so much more the man’ in this way especially
since he has a ‘fruitless crown’ (metaphor) so perhaps cant have kids, sensitive topic (LINK TO SOCIETY ENCOURAGING DOWNFALL, MASC EXPECTATIONS)
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