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Title: Grade 9 essay on the Presentation of Macbeth Acts 3-4
Description: This is a top-grade essay with plenty of 'perceptive' ideas you can utilise.

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How Macbeth is presented in Act I
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iii Macbeth and Banquo encounter the witches and unlike his friend Macbeth notably does
not question the appearance of the witches, apparently unfazed by the subversion of Jacobean
ideals manifested in the ‘weird sisters’
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This may be linked to the idea that Shakespeare himself respected
powerful women, atypically marrying a woman older than he was
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Alternatively, he ‘start[s]’ as he instantly recognises the chaos that would
result in the realisation of these prophesies including the death of a king he is at this point loyal to
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The
imperatives and interrogatives Macbeth uses when communicating with the witches could indicate
his determination or conversely, his desperation but both these emotions have evolved from
attempting to sate his deep-seated ambition
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iii) the audience can witness the emotional turmoil the witches’
prophecies have initiated
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This could signify the beginning of his deviation from the ideals of
the contextually more noble men who will start to have less and less influence on him (such as
Banquo and King Duncan)
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In the beginning of act I
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Duncan states that he will nurture Macbeth so that
gradually he can flourish, the growth of a plant in such a way is what is natural, however Macbeth
uses language of haste like ‘o’erleap’ which foreshadows how he will undermine this natural order,
in the way that Shakespeare wants the audience to know regicide would do
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Society (like a flower garden) cannot function when the hierarchy
is unnaturally altered and Shakespeare demonstrates this, appeasing James I
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iv Macbeth appears more likely to carry out the nefarious act of murdering
Duncan
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Macbeth speaks in rhyme in his aside,
affirming his sense of certainty and serving to draw parallels between him and the witches
suggesting alignment with their very flawed moral code
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Macbeth’s ‘desire’ for ‘stars’ to ‘hide
[their] fires’ is juxtaposed with Duncan’s reference to ‘stars’ shining, this emphasises the chasm
forming between Macbeth and Duncan, and that Macbeth is now quite solidly on the side of
darkness and evil
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It also appears that he wants to
distance himself and his identity from a deed he still understands is evil
Title: Grade 9 essay on the Presentation of Macbeth Acts 3-4
Description: This is a top-grade essay with plenty of 'perceptive' ideas you can utilise.