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Lady Macbeth Challenges Her Husband's Masculinity
- 2. The Question Starting with this speech, explain how Shakespeare presents the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Write about: • how Shakespeare presents their relationship in this speech • how Shakespeare presents their relationship in the play as a whole.
- 3. The Question Starting with this speech, explain how Shakespeare presents the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Write about: • how Shakespeare presents their relationship in this speech • how Shakespeare presents their relationship in the play as a whole. Identify the focus of the question. Remember to spend about 25 minutes analysing the relationship in the extract. Then spend about 25 minutes analysing the relationship in the play as a whole
- 4. Imagery BANDS Blood Animals Nature Darkness Sleep Dramatic Purposes ABCD Atmosphere Background Contrast Dramatic tension Assessment Criteria PETER Point AO1 Evidence AO1 Technique/Terminology AO2 Effect AO2 Reason AO3 Descriptive Techniques COMPASS Contrast Onomatopoeia Metaphor Personification Alliteration Similes Senses Themes MACBARKS Madness Ambition Chaos Betrayal Appearance Reality Kingship Supernatural Persuasive Techniques ARRESTED Alliteration Rhetorical questions Repetition Emotive language Statistics Triplets Exaggeration Language • Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs • Blank Verse, Verse Couplets, Prose
- 5. MACBETH Which of you have done this? LORDS What, my good lord? MACBETH Thou canst not say I did it: never shake Thy gory locks at me. ROSS 5 Gentlemen, rise; his highness is not well. LADY MACBETH Sir, worthy friends: my lord is often thus, And hath been from his youth:pray you, keep seat; The fit is momentary; upon a thought He will again be well. If much you note him, 10 You shall offend him and extend his passion: Feed, and regard him not. [Aside to Macbeth] Are you a man? MACBETH Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that Which might appal the devil. LADY MACBETH Oh proper stuff! 15 This is the very painting of your fear; This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said, Led you to Duncan. O these flaws and starts – Impostors to true fear – would well become A woman’s story at a winter’s fire, 20 Authoriz’d by her grandam. ABCD Dramatic tension Only Macbeth sees the ghost. Becoming more isolated from his wife? His immediate desperate reaction is to accuse others of a trick - paranoia. BANDS Blood Imagery of blood – symbol of guilt in play. Linked to both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth – ‘blood on their hands’ MACBARKS Madness Lady Macbeth pretends her husband is having a temporary fit. She protects him. She is the strong one. Irony – she later goes mad.
- 6. MACBETH Which of you have done this? LORDS What, my good lord? MACBETH Thou canst not say I did it: never shake Thy gory locks at me. ROSS 5 Gentlemen, rise; his highness is not well. LADY MACBETH Sir, worthy friends: my lord is often thus, And hath been from his youth:pray you, keep seat; The fit is momentary; upon a thought He will again be well. If much you note him, 10 You shall offend him and extend his passion: Feed, and regard him not. [Aside to Macbeth] Are you a man? MACBETH Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that Which might appal the devil. LADY MACBETH Oh proper stuff! 15 This is the very painting of your fear; This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said, Led you to Duncan. O these flaws and starts – Impostors to true fear – would well become A woman’s story at a winter’s fire, 20 Authoriz’d by her grandam. ARRESTED Rhetorical questions Lady Macbeth challenges her husband and attacks his masculinity. COMPASS Metaphor Lady Macbeth questions his courage. His fear is not real. Links to the vision of the dagger. LM does not believe her husband – growing distrust and unease between them. Language Blank Verse: Incomplete iambic pentameter – Lady Macbeth has to complete his lines for him – She has to take control.
- 7. Lady Macbeth is annoyed at her husband’s embarrassing behaviour and the danger it causes of them being discovered: “Are you a man?” Her use of a rhetorical question challenges his masculinity. This links to the theme of chaos in the play: the natural order has been upset and Macbeth is behaving unlike a man: “A woman’s story.” PETER Point AO1 Evidence AO1 Technique/Terminology AO2 Effect AO2 Reason AO3
- 8. The Question Identify the focus of the question. Starting with this speech, explain how Shakespeare presents the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Write about: • how Shakespeare presents their relationship in this speech • how Shakespeare presents their relationship in the play as a whole. Remember to spend about 25 minutes analysing the relationship in the extract. Then spend about 25 minutes analysing the relationship in the play as a whole You now need to write about the rest of the play.
- 9. Approach: Consider the main scenes in which Macbeth and Lady Macbeth appear. How does their relationship develop/change through the play? • Act 1 Scene 5: LM receives her husband’s letter. She is his “dearest partner of greatness”. • Act 1 Scene 7: LM convinces him to change his mind about murdering the King. • Act 2 Scene 2: The murder of King Duncan. • Act 3 Scene 2: LM shows signs of strain and there is a moment of understanding and sympathy between them, but then Macbeth keeps secret from her his plot to murder Banquo. • Act 3 Scene 4: The banquet and Banquo’s ghost. • Act 5 Scene 1: LM sleepwalks. • Act 5 Scene 5: The death of LM and Macbeth’s lack of grief.
- 10. PETER As you explore the Macbeths’ changing relationship, remember to consider techniques (AO2) that Shakespeare has used to help us understand their relationship. For example: • Why is prose used for Macbeth’s letter in Act 1 Scene 5? What does it help us understand further about their relationship? • How does Shakespeare make use of rhetorical questions and other persuasive techniques in Act 1 Scene 7? How does this help us to understand the roles they ‘play’ in their marriage? How does this link to context (Reason) and AO3?