Macbeth essay
MACBETH ESSAY
SAMPLE INTRODUCTION
All dramatic texts position readers to perceive characters and their subsequent development in a particular way. These varying representations ensure powerful ideas are conveyed to the audience. Both Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the modern BBC version Joe Macbeth use characterisation to create an engaging storyline. However, since these texts were composed in different times and mediums, they have constructed their characters, in particular Lady Macbeth, in very different ways. These constructions position the responder to view Lady Macbeth as quite a heartless, power-hungry character in the original play while the modern adaptation fashions her into an empathetic multidimensional woman.
NOTES:
Your intro must first address the concept of the question in more general terms.
Then you MUST have a thesis statement – where you actually answer the question.
The last section is where you briefly explain HOW you will go about proving your answer to the question.
SAMPLE BODY PARAGRAPH
Shakespeare’s Macbeth uses imagery and symbolism to create a Lady Macbeth who is cold-blooded and ambitious. Act 1 scene 5 introduces us to Lady Macbeth just after she has received the letter about the witches’ prophecy. Immediately she begins plotting ways to manipulate her husband into murdering Duncan, ‘Hie thee hither,/ That I may pour my spirits in thine ear’, implying that she is the one who has the power to make this murder occur. Constant references to blood and darkness are made throughout the soliloquy, ‘Make thick my blood’, ‘Come thick night’; which positions the audience to view Lady Macbeth as a dark, evil character who will stop at nothing to gain the throne. “Unsex me here,/ And fill me...top-full/ Of direst cruelty!”, this quote illustrates how Lady Macbeth fears that the weakness of her sex will hinder her murderous mission and this idea is taken further when she demands the ‘spirits’ to, ‘take my milk for gall, you murdering
SAMPLE INTRODUCTION
All dramatic texts position readers to perceive characters and their subsequent development in a particular way. These varying representations ensure powerful ideas are conveyed to the audience. Both Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the modern BBC version Joe Macbeth use characterisation to create an engaging storyline. However, since these texts were composed in different times and mediums, they have constructed their characters, in particular Lady Macbeth, in very different ways. These constructions position the responder to view Lady Macbeth as quite a heartless, power-hungry character in the original play while the modern adaptation fashions her into an empathetic multidimensional woman.
NOTES:
Your intro must first address the concept of the question in more general terms.
Then you MUST have a thesis statement – where you actually answer the question.
The last section is where you briefly explain HOW you will go about proving your answer to the question.
SAMPLE BODY PARAGRAPH
Shakespeare’s Macbeth uses imagery and symbolism to create a Lady Macbeth who is cold-blooded and ambitious. Act 1 scene 5 introduces us to Lady Macbeth just after she has received the letter about the witches’ prophecy. Immediately she begins plotting ways to manipulate her husband into murdering Duncan, ‘Hie thee hither,/ That I may pour my spirits in thine ear’, implying that she is the one who has the power to make this murder occur. Constant references to blood and darkness are made throughout the soliloquy, ‘Make thick my blood’, ‘Come thick night’; which positions the audience to view Lady Macbeth as a dark, evil character who will stop at nothing to gain the throne. “Unsex me here,/ And fill me...top-full/ Of direst cruelty!”, this quote illustrates how Lady Macbeth fears that the weakness of her sex will hinder her murderous mission and this idea is taken further when she demands the ‘spirits’ to, ‘take my milk for gall, you murdering