Macbeth Disturbed Characters
How do Shakespeare and Browning use linguistic and structural devices to present disturbed female characters in Macbeth and The Laboratory?
The Guidelines
Timing
4 hours
Word count
2000
The Plan
The Keywords
The Way out
AOs
Assessment Objective one:
‘Respond to texts critically and imaginatively; select and use relevant textual detail to illustrate and support interpretations'
Ao2
Explain how language, structure and form contribute to writers’ presentation of ideas, themes, and settings’
AO3
'Explain links between texts, evaluating writers’ different ways of expressing meaning and achieving effects’
AO4
‘Relate texts to their social, cultural and historical contexts; explain how texts have been influential and significant …show more content…
Furthermore, in Macbeth...
Alternatively/in the same way, in The Laboratory....
Introduction
Throughout literature, and across the centuries, the presence of disturbed characters in texts illness,' this essay will focus on the characters of Lady Macbeth, from Shakespeare's Scottish play 'Macbeth', and the female voice from Robert Browning's poem 'The Laboratory'. Within both texts, themes of murder, power and remorse are questioned, as the writers present their characters as truly disturbed.have persisted to add interest to stories with comments on the stability of the human mind. Following the dictionary's definition of 'disturbed' as, 'Showing signs or symptoms of mental or emotional
Paragraph 1 example Point
Primarily, Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as a disturbed character through her hunger for power and desire for the death of King Duncan.
Example
This is shown as she begins to obsess over persuading Macbeth to kill Duncan: "Hie thee hither,/ That I may pour my spirits in thine ear". Continuing to comment on the need to lose her female morals in order to carry out the act, as she begs the spirits to, "unsex me …show more content…
Furthermore, with the play set in the 11th Century, a time in which we expect females to be complacent, Lady Macbeth's desire to have the power and mentality of a male, with the use of 'unsex', provides an indication of the mental state of the woman Shakespeare has created; she lacks morals and wishes to lose them further in order for her husband to commit murder. As these quotes come from Lay Macbeth's soliloquy, we know that she is talking to herself in order to allow the audience access to her
The Guidelines
Timing
4 hours
Word count
2000
The Plan
The Keywords
The Way out
AOs
Assessment Objective one:
‘Respond to texts critically and imaginatively; select and use relevant textual detail to illustrate and support interpretations'
Ao2
Explain how language, structure and form contribute to writers’ presentation of ideas, themes, and settings’
AO3
'Explain links between texts, evaluating writers’ different ways of expressing meaning and achieving effects’
AO4
‘Relate texts to their social, cultural and historical contexts; explain how texts have been influential and significant …show more content…
Furthermore, in Macbeth...
Alternatively/in the same way, in The Laboratory....
Introduction
Throughout literature, and across the centuries, the presence of disturbed characters in texts illness,' this essay will focus on the characters of Lady Macbeth, from Shakespeare's Scottish play 'Macbeth', and the female voice from Robert Browning's poem 'The Laboratory'. Within both texts, themes of murder, power and remorse are questioned, as the writers present their characters as truly disturbed.have persisted to add interest to stories with comments on the stability of the human mind. Following the dictionary's definition of 'disturbed' as, 'Showing signs or symptoms of mental or emotional
Paragraph 1 example Point
Primarily, Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as a disturbed character through her hunger for power and desire for the death of King Duncan.
Example
This is shown as she begins to obsess over persuading Macbeth to kill Duncan: "Hie thee hither,/ That I may pour my spirits in thine ear". Continuing to comment on the need to lose her female morals in order to carry out the act, as she begs the spirits to, "unsex me …show more content…
Furthermore, with the play set in the 11th Century, a time in which we expect females to be complacent, Lady Macbeth's desire to have the power and mentality of a male, with the use of 'unsex', provides an indication of the mental state of the woman Shakespeare has created; she lacks morals and wishes to lose them further in order for her husband to commit murder. As these quotes come from Lay Macbeth's soliloquy, we know that she is talking to herself in order to allow the audience access to her