English Lit
Use the links below to help you refresh your knowledge on Shakespeare's Macbeth and assist your exam revision
The Plot
Macbeth-Visual-Revision-Guide.pdf
Act 1
Macbeth Act 1 Summary with Key Quotes & English Subtitles
Act 2
Macbeth Act 2 Summary with Key Quotes & English Subtitles
Act 3
Macbeth Act 3 Summary with Key Quotes & English Subtitles
Act 4
Macbeth Act 4 Summary with Key Quotes & English Subtitles
Act 5
Macbeth Act 5 Summary with Key Quotes & English Subtitles
Characters
Macbeth-character worksheets Mr Bruff.pdf
https://www.rsc.org.uk/shakespeare-learning-zone/macbeth/character/whoswho
Macbeth
Character Analysis: Macbeth
Lesson summary: Meeting Macbeth
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/macbeth-meets-the-witches-cgrp2r
Lady Macbeth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JevkOJ2ajIQ
Character Analysis: Lady Macbeth
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/lady-macbeth-c9jk2c
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/guilt-and-lady-macbeth-cgup4r
King Duncan
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/duncan-dies-6tgk2d
Banquo
Character Analysis: Banquo
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/banquo-and-macduff-part-12-6nj3ee
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/banquo-and-macduff-part-22-6ctpcc
Macduff
Character Analysis: Macduff
Malcolm (and Donalblain)
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/macduff-and-malcolm-6mvk6d
The Witches
Character Analysis: The Witches in 'Macbeth'
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/the-witches-65h3ed
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/the-second-prophecies-64vk0d
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/the-witches-part-12-c5k3ae
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/the-witches-part-22-cdh32c
Minor thanes, nobles and courtiers
Themes
Macbeth LitChart
Revise All the Themes of Macbeth to Improve Your Grade Mr Salles
Kingship
Tragic Hero
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/the-tragic-hero-part-12-68v66c
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/the-tragic-hero-part-22-68r32t
Natural Order
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/the-natural-order-part-1of-2-cgv6ct
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/the-natural-order-part-22-6tjpct
Manhood
Good versus Evil
Appearance and reality
Scotland -the health of the nation
Ambition and the supernatural
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/the-supernatural-part-12-crrkct
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/the-supernatural-part-22-6mwkat
Wider Reading
The-Connell-eGuide-to-Macbeth.pdf
How does Shakespeare create an atmosphere of evil?
Is Macbeth the plaything of a giant malevolence?
How sympathetic do we feel to Macbeth?
Why is the relatively uneducated Macbeth’s language so difficult?
Is Duncan a saintly king?
How good a man is Banquo?
How close is the Macbeths’ marriage?
What happens to the marriage?
Is Macduff this play’s real hero?
So what of the play’s final scene? Is it or isn’t it triumphal?
Is life a tale “told by an idiot/ Signifying nothing”?
Context
Macbeth-Revision-Booklet-MLY.pdf
James I and The Gunpowder Plot
King James I and Witchcraft
Tragedy:
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/shakespeare-tragedy-and-the-tragic-hero-74uket
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/the-tragedy-of-macbeth-cdjpac
Exemplars
‘If it Were Done’ soliloquy and Macbeth’s State of Mind
Student Exemplar: Macbeth's State of Mind
Macbeth and Power
Student Exemplar: Macbeth and Power
Theme of Ambition (extract with Macbeth and Lady Macbeth)
Student Exemplar: Ambition in Macbeth
‘Unsex me here’ and Female Power
Student Exemplar: Lady Macbeth as Powerful, by Matthew
Macbeth as Hero
Macbeth as Hero? Student Exemplar
Full Mark Response 2017
100% Full Marks Real Literature Exam Answer 3: 'Macbeth' (no spoilers!)
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
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