@@Hi-uj4zj Nope! These alone were incredibly valuable in the exam. You will have a greater chance if you memorize some from his previous videos but these were enough for me
Notes (1) 1) Macbeth says this when he decides he is just going to keep killing. There is no reason for this. He is already King. He is already as safe as he is ever going to be and killing Macduff's family isn't going to make him any safer. In fact it provokes Macduff into coming back and killing him. There isn't any reason for this other than his bloodlust and the fact that he has ultimate authority and can do it. Context: James I - Patronage - because there had been the gun powder plot and shakspeare is trying to warn james I not to become a violent king and take revenge. He wants to keep a peaceful society and because this play is being formed at court in front of King James and the nobles. He is sending a direct message to his patron King James. Themes: methaphor of stepping river of blood conveys his bloodlust which i argue is his real motivation in killing rather than ambition. Shakespeare wants to show how to behave as King. He wants to avoid the bloody reprivals King James could have put in place after the Gunpowder Plot 2) These are Lady Macbeth's words to her husband after he's killed King Duncan. They are supposed to stop him thinking about the terrible thing he's done. However, the words themselves are all about fate. Once you have started something you can't stop it. Expressing fate, what's done cannot be undone our destiny is set. Context: Great Chain of Being - To become a King when that it's not your destiny is impossible. It cannot be undone. Alternative meaning: the violence they have started is just going to keep growing there is no way of going back. Context that leads to is the idea of patriarchy a women's role is set in society and she can't change it. We can look at Lady Macbeth's motivation in this play as a desire to change her status as a woman. She is not allowed any power or authority unless she is married to it sop she has to change Macbeth's status to improve her own. When she does that patriarchy punishes her, God punishes her and she eventually commits suicide. 3) Turning away from Christianity and this is going to link to supernatural and the way Macbeth and LM are turning towards supernatural help. The word "it" shows Macbeth is afraid to voice the identity of Satan because what he is doing is so tabboo and transgressive. The repetition of the word "blood" symbolizes Macbeth's bloodlust that drives him towards killing. Context: This is caused by being a warrior in this martial society. The repetition of "will" invokes the idea of fate. As a tragic hero he doesn't believe he can change his fate which is the opposite of a greek tragic hero. Greek tragedies the hero ends up with a tragic death while desperately tring to avoid their fate wheras Macbeth rushes towards it as first as he can. 4) Says this after he has committed regicide. We can see he is being punished by God which leads to our context of Christianity. He is punished by God because he is breaking the Great Chain of Being. Shakespeare's writing the play for King James and is being peformed in front of King James and the nobles. He wants to flatter King James by pointing out to the nobles the dangers of regicide. You will become King he says but it will be a poisoned chalice. You won't will be able to enjoy it. It will as you see in the events of the play eventually kill you. It is warning to not try overthrow the King which is relevant to the context of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot where they tried to get rid of King James 5) Macbeth is expressing his guilt. He is being punished for his ambition to kill the King but he is also being punished also for this challenge against God. He chooses a pagan god a roman god "Neptune" to talk about here. In his methaphor, he is clearly rejecting a Christian God just as in his actions he is rejecting Christian God. So his own imagery condemns him in the mind of the Jacobean audience as a pagan who has turned against the Christian God. The sin of a tragic hero in greek theatre is hubris - excessive pride - often against the gods. This is exactly what's happening here in Christian context. He is suffering from pride where he rejects a Christian God in front of a Christian audience who will be against him. This links to James I. Shakespeare is saying it is an unchristian act which will be punished by God for you to turn against you king the great chain of being supports this view.. The word "blood" gives us this other clue that his ambition is just as much as to do with bloodlust as becoming King. 6) Partriarchy - Lady Macbeth is the rider that is going to prick his sides and urge him to kill King Duncan. She is taking control and has has power in this relationship. This is totally unexpected in a patriarchal society where power lies with men. But in this marriage Macbeth is happy to give his power to his wife because he trusts her. He says the only has "vaulting ambition" and that this is not enough. That is why ambition is not the thing that makes him kill Duncan. It makes him want to kill King Duncan but it is his bloodlust and love for his wide that pushes him. He says ambition will o'erleap itslef and fall on the other side of the hurdle. This shows he knows from the beginning that he is likely to fail if all he has is ambition. 7) This is an instruction to her husband. An immediate link to the patriarchy showing how much he trusts his wife and how much he willing for her to direct him. In terms of society Shakespeare is describing this is an attack on society. Women known to be worse than men because of orignial sin where eve took the forbidden fruit first and then tempted adam and consequently God punished her worse than adam. That's why get pain of childbirth according to genesis. We're also supposed to be disgusted with Lady Macbeth and Shakespeare gives us that clue with the alliteration of the sound 'f'. That fricative is always agrressive and indicative of disgust. That reflects the audience's opinion which contrasts Macbeth's opinion. Shakespeare is asking in a patriarchal society how on earth do women gain influence? If they can only gain it through me perhaps they are forced by society to become manipulative. They are forced to become what society calls evil. It is not necessarily their fault. Another links through original sin is to Christianity. Is it fair Shakspeare is asking that women are treated not just as second class citizens but also as more evil than men. 8)Last time LM is in partnership with her husband. She is actually imagining being her husband on her way to kill Duncan. That's why she says why then tis time to do it which are Macbeth's thoughts. Because she is ringing the bell twice to give him the instruction that it's safe to kill Duncan. The "damned spot" suggests her soul is going to hell. Macbeth spends very little time thinking about hell whereas this is something that obsesses LM and possibly links to her suicide at the end. This links to Christianity as she is going to be punished for her unchristian act. And because she has defied the Great Chain of Being God isn't just going to punish her when she's dead he is going to recreate hell whilst she is alive. Shakespeare uses this ironically. Later she will say 'Out, out I say". Macbeth will echoe that in "Out, out brief candle!". He is going to mirror his wife's language. You can use that to show they are still perfectly in love and in tune. Alternatively, it could be symbol of how they are apart as he only starts to echoe her language once she's her dead but in the sleep walking scene she is alone. "Hell is murky" - links to Christian context and to the theme of the supernatuarl. Because LM appeals to the supernatural to "unsex her" she is punished in Hell. This is a punishment Shakespeare's Christians audience would demand - a fitting end to the "fiend-like queen". A modern audience would look beyond that and see how far the patriarchal society has forced LM in making immoral choices in order to achieve power. 9)Christian imagey - the serpent symbolizes the serpent of gensis which the audience would know is the serpent that persuaded Eve to tempt Adam to eat the forbidden fruit. Consequently, LM is directly linked to the idea of hell and the punishment deserces. It suggest Macbeth is being tempted to kill King Duncan by his wife. Alternative interpretation would look Macbeth's innate desire to kill King Duncan and the bloodlust that drives him and blame him. Because in a tragedy it is always the hero's hubris that leads to their downfall. So ultimately the final responisbility has to be Macbeth's not his wfie. Shakespeare also emphasizes how LM challenges the patriarchy. She asks her husband to be feminine - to look like a flower a feminine image. Perhaps Shakespeare is suggesting if male and female roles were more equal this kind of lust for power wouldn't occur. Alternatively, he is demonizing LM in order to punish her for breaking society's patriarchal rules.
Notes (2) 10) LM is the person who knows Macbeths the best and she feels Macbeth doesn't have it in him to commit regicide to become truly evil. Therfore that backs the idea he doesnt have enough ambition. He needs her to help him. This placs her in the place of Eve tempting Adam. However, the letter Macbeth sent LM telling her about the about the witches promises shows that he knows he needs her help and he encourages it. Therefore he uses her to help him develop the necessary evil to kill Duncan. This is why both of them guilty and both of needed to be punished. 11) The Great Chain of Being - he is saying this is my place as a man. I must be subvertient to my King and to my God. I'm not able to break out of these social constraints but he wants to. He wants to be King and he wants to be in charge of his own destiny. The repition of the word "dare" shows how Shakepeare is showing off Macbeth's hubris. This is his arrogance. Links beautifully to the patriarchal discussion Shakspeare is having. Macbeth has the opportunity to dare things as a man whereas LM isn't allowed by society. So once again Shakspaere is playing with his audience's expectations and asking about the role of women in society. 12) This links to the idea of appearance vs reality. The word "men" suggests this is attack against patriarchal society and suggests men are the people at fault. Men have caused the evils in society and women are reacting to their powerless state by turning towards alternative means such as the supernatural or towards her husband. Shakespeare is asking what causes men to become so evil and the answer is it is a martial society built on butchery and killing where men who kill are successful. They have to kill in order advance their status in society which is how Macbeth became the Thane of Cawdor. 13) The word "wicked" refers to Macbeth. Macbeth is the supernatural evil that the witches sense. In other words, by transgessing against society and commiting regicide Macbeth has become not just an evil human being but he has a kind of supernatural evil power. This perhaps supernatural power that allows him to kill any man fights apart from one not from woman-born. That stops us thinking the witches words as tricks but perhaps he could have killed thousands of people if Macduff didn't turn up. This links to fate. Macduff turned up because Macbeth killed his family. Macbeth's actions sealed his own fate exactly as a greek tragedy demands. His hubris has led to his downfall. 14) Macbeth has visions which is clear sign he is being punished with madness. This is perhaps fate warning him to not go through with regicide. He is been given the chance to know that killing the King will drive him mad but he rejects that sign. This is typical Greek tragedy his hubristicac action. The other thing it suggests the murder is Macbeth's idea all along. He conjures about the dagger it's his mind. The alliteration of "come" and "clutch" shows he is ordering the dagger to allow him to hold it to kill the King. This flatterS King James becaue it warns the nobles that the consequencs of even thinking about killing the King is that they too will be driven mad.
Notes (3) 15) The use of trochaic tetrameter is like a child's rhyme. This suggests Shakespeare is also playing with King James. King James believed in witches and participated in witch trials so we have clear flattery. On the other hand, by giving a children's rhyme Shakespare is also perhaps positing the idea witches are a fantasy and not real. Shakspeare is perhaps suggesting these particular women are not witches but all they have the power of sight - seeing into the future which is what the oracles did in greek tragedies. They weren't actually evil but telling the tragic hero of their unavoidable fate. 16) The first part is nihilistic. It's a rejection to God's plan to bring the believers heaven and condemn the sinners to heaven. There is no mention of hell here because Macbeth isn't really thinking about it. Death is "dusty" because Macbeth will die without leaving an heir. In contrast to him, Banquo's sons will be kings until the crack of doom. The tragic hero here has turned against his own hubris. He has realised he has embraced fate onto himself and that it's worthless. This is God's punishment which brings us back to theme of Christianity and context of The Great Chain of Being. 17) This paints the world as something without meaning and is nihilistic. This asks why shouldn't we pursue our ambiton no matter where they lead us? This is at the beginning at the play and a contemporary audience would know what happens us a consequence of that. Macbeth at the end believes ambition is pointless. His male ambition has been thwarted but the female ambition of the witches has been realised. They've been able to destroy Macbeth simply by showing the future. They haven't actually made him do anything which can suggest as women in a patriarchal society they have no power to make a man do nothing. Perhaps through the fricative alliteration Shakspeare is conveying his disgust at this or perhaps he wants the audience to feel disgust against the witches because they represent satanic evil. 18) This is LM invoking the power of the supernatural. These are the spirits that are going to attend to serve her. She needs to be unsexed because this is a patriarchal society in which women are denied power. Shakespeare is making a direct link between the way that women are prevented from having power agency, identity and authority with the need to turn for evil or supernatural help. She refers to her head as the "crown" which shows how incredibly ambitious she is. You would normally fill something from the bottom to the top (from the toe to the crown) but because she is obsessed with the idea of becoming queen crown comes first. Finally, we have the absolute criticism of what it is to be a man. She needs to be become full of "direst cruelty" that is what patriarchal society makes males. That's why she thinks she needs to be cruel to succeed. This could perhaps suggest Shakespeare is deeply critical of the patriarchal society that produces these kind of murderous men. 19) Through the methaphor of an actor on stage, life is shown as an illusion and as an script written by something else. This is an attack against God. Macbeth has moved away from the nihilistic view life is meaningless and now he is saying that meaning is written by something else. He is against God controlling his life and is against fate. That's where his hubris has come from. His whole story is trying to improve the script he has been given. This can be seen as an attack on the Great Chain of Being which says we are all given our status at birth and we have to accept it. Macbeth however strives for better our condition, which a contemporary audience would agree with. Perhaps Shakespeare had thought the same because he reinvented himself from the son of a glovemaker to becoming the equillavent of a multi-millionare. Macbeth is talking about the injustice of society because if he is only a "poor" actor living a life only equivalent to a "hour upon the stage" Lady Macbeth's life is even more unfair. This is an attack on the patriarchal society and it shows how Lady Macbeth's death has made him angry at the sciptwriter. The scriptwriter being God or perhaps society and society's expectations. Shakespeare perhaps shared many of these views and is protraying them through Macbeth. 20) Here, we get Macbeth's final nihilistic view excpet there is God and sacreligously that God is an "idiot". He is attacking God for creating a Christian society which is unfair and doesn't offer people opportunities. At the end of the quote, we can see Macbeth feels his whole life has been pointless. It's been a struggle for advancement and has given him no pleasure. This is typical of the tragic hero in their hubristic state to blame everything else and fate instead of himself. In a greek tragedy, fate is responsible and everything that character does to avoid his fate is undermined by hubris but here there is no fate other than Macbeth's hubris. He could have perhaps become King naturally and waited for the future to unfold but chose to shape his own fate. This is what makes him a Shakespearan tragic hero. These lines are a complete attack against society which is based of Christian faith. We would expect a Jacobean audience to reject this view.
Hi Mr Salles, I just got my literature mock back from march, and I got 26/30 for my macbeth essay, all because of your analysis of the "vaulting ambition" quote and how it links to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's relationship. (The last time I did a literature mock I hadn't seen any of your videos and I just scraped a step 5.) Your content is golden, cannot thank you enough.
Something we covered in class- the 'innocent flower' and the 'serpent under't' refer directly to the medallion that James I had produced to signify the horrors of the recent Gunpowder Plot. Search 'James 1 gunpowder plot medallion' to see what I mean. The innocent flower may be the reflection of the people hiding their treachery to the King, and the serpent their real, backstabbing intentions. The serpent also links to the similar semantic field with the 'mind full of scorpions'. Thanks so much for your videos Sir, you're a lifesaver!!!!
Mr Salles, thank you so much you don't understand, as a student that find English a difficult subject, you are really making it easier for me to understand and giving me hope with passing my exam with a good grade. Keep it up ! :)
the 'blood will have blood' quote reminds me of how it says in the bible an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth this emphasises how Macbeth will be punished not just at the hands of humans but at the hands of God. Divine retribution.
mr salles this is absolutely wonderful - its a shame it doesn't have more views. I will definitely spread the work around school tell others of 'a magical way to get grade nines!'(aka mr salles). KEEP AT IT BUDDY, GOOD CONTENT NEVER GOES UNNOTICED. also - a bit of advice: try to start videos directly with the content - the viewer already knows what the video will be about(they have already read the title)
Sir appreciate your energy and effort! Thank you for contastnyl being active. You make learning sound found. I find English really boring. But to learn, I only come to your channel as I know that your voice is gonna boost my energy. Also, love the quality of this video. Would appreciate if you make more!
Thanks sooo much , these quotes really helped me in the exam today. Couldn't have done it without them and their amazing word-level analysis. Thanks you sooo much😊 😊😊
Hey Mr Salles, I wanted to ask, for longer quotes like the one at 9:52, should you write out the whole quote in the exam? My teacher says to write short and concise quotes.
Your teacher is right, but sometimes you might want to delve into different parts of a longer quote, so use an ellipsis to get rid of the words you don't need.
Hi mr salles, Dk if u remember me but I used to watch your videos for Macbeth and I was one of the first few ppl to purchase your ‘ultimate guide to Macbeth’ analysis book which got me a grade 9 (although I didn’t take my GCSEs!) Everything in there was so analytical and contextually very good aswell. I was wondering if you can produce a book like this for Shakespeare’s Othello (A level). Thank you
Hello sir. I'm aware that it's of course absolutely necessary to explore connotations of key words and techniques used in macbeth quotes but how about animal farm? Do you have to closely examine each quote and discuss the various meanings and analyse each word?? Because I was told I should but I can't quite see how that makes sense - it's not like poetry or something where there are deep meanings to each line and there are millions of techniques to choose from. Cheers
Hello Sir, i was just wondering if you could make the same video for quotes in Dr jekyll & Mr Hyde and if you could possibly make a video predicting what you think the question will be for the 2022 exams for Macbeth and J&H. Thank you!!!
In light of the fact that "False face must hide what the false heart doth know." comes from Macbeth in response to Lady Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 7) and not Lady Macbeth herself, here is an alternate interpretation stemming from the main points of the original analysis. CONTEXT: Patriarchal society says it is men in control yet it is Macbeth who is influenced by his wife. This parallels/mirrors the story of Adam and Eve as Macbeth succumbs to Lady Macbeth's reasoning and influence, once again proving his trust and love in her. Shakespeare suggests the original sin still prevails in Jacobean Society. The use of fricatives in Macbeth's speech suggest power and aggression traditionally associated with the stereotypical male of the time. Through Macbeth's speech, Shakespeare may be questioning the role of women as having greater evil but also more influence which they can only achieve through their husbands and/or male relatives. He questions how/why women obtain power and whether they are evil for seeking it or men, instead, for denying it and leading women to obtain it through ungodly and corrupt ways.
hi sir, are you thinking of doing a level videos in the future? because i think i'm going to pick english lit as i'm now doing so well in gcse thanks to u, but i honestly don't know how i'd be able to cope without ur videos.
@@MrSallesTeachesEnglish thanks, i'm just worried about the content being overwhelming. at the sixth form i hope to go to some of the texts are handmaid's tail, othello, death of a salesman and the kite runner which i think are quite popular
Throughout the play disrupting the great chain through regicide is presented as a damned act So why would at 30:44 would Shakespeare want to go against this idea and say well actually we should ignore the great chain completely it’s not productive for ourselves or society? I don’t get this part
Do ur interpretation, explain what it means, add a quotation, go into any symbolism or/ and context, back it up with a supporting quote, in that quote zoom in on a word/language feature/ structural feature, anything you wish & then link it back to the question
@@n5ors so like Macbeth's hides his sinister intentions through desiring to look innocent so that no suspicions can be raised against him (Interpretation) . This reflects Macbeth's accelerating regecidal ambition which ultimately bring the Jacobean audience suprised, especially King James who is Shakespeare's richest patron(explaination and context). This can be seen through the juxtaposition(language) 'Let light not see my deep black desires'(quote) . Furthermore, the adjective (zoom)'deep' (word) implies how Macbeth's thoughts of regecide will not be changed as his collosal ambition has ultimately taken over him. (explain and link)
Lady Ms advise could have been less to do with regicide but more with telling him to be patient but she chooses not too, Clearly Macbeth gets manipulated by Lady M so easily, and so he becomes Lady M, he does as she say and becomes her, if only she were a man she could be so violent. So therefore when she dies, her legacy does keep going through what she shaped in Macbeth, but of cores it falls because Shakespeare message is to convince nobles not to commit regicide. This can further be proven as they do both say 'out, out'
Does anyone know why at around 10:36, he says Lady Macbeth represents a “spur” followed by saying that he has no spur, despite the analysis saying that he is giving Lady Macbeth power?
“I have no spur” suggests that Macbeth doesn’t have the motivation to kill without his wife. But later Lady Macbeth acts as the spur to influence the murder and he is motivated to commit the murder to prove his masculinity as well as please his wife. she is the reason he commits it and she is also using her husband to take power as well, as in a patriarchal, male dominated society a woman would need to use her husband if that makes sense
@@Hi-uj4zj when i did questions i was able to answer most, nearly all, so yes. But ive got his guide now so im using other quotes aswell for the final exam
Just got a 9 from these quotes alone after I was expecting a 6 at best! To everyone considering memorising these, DO IT!!!
Did you revise any other quotes
@@Hi-uj4zj Nope! These alone were incredibly valuable in the exam. You will have a greater chance if you memorize some from his previous videos but these were enough for me
@@foxboi506 would it be possible to show me your essay examples for inspiration please?
@@yasheeka8 I truly pulled it out the bag in the exam unfortunately. I mostly got 6-7 before but I’ll see if I can find my best essay
@FoxBoi heyy I just wanted to know if u had any analysis for these quotes as in zooming in on word choice and things that helped u get the 9?
Notes (1)
1) Macbeth says this when he decides he is just going to keep killing. There is no reason for this. He is already King. He is already as safe as he is ever going to be and killing Macduff's family isn't going to make him any safer. In fact it provokes Macduff into coming back and killing him.
There isn't any reason for this other than his bloodlust and the fact that he has ultimate authority and can do it.
Context: James I - Patronage - because there had been the gun powder plot and shakspeare is trying to warn james I not to become a violent king and take revenge. He wants to keep a peaceful society and because this play is being formed at court in front of King James and the nobles. He is sending a direct message to his patron King James.
Themes: methaphor of stepping river of blood conveys his bloodlust which i argue is his real motivation in killing rather than ambition.
Shakespeare wants to show how to behave as King. He wants to avoid the bloody reprivals King James could have put in place after the Gunpowder Plot
2) These are Lady Macbeth's words to her husband after he's killed King Duncan. They are supposed to stop him thinking about the terrible thing he's done.
However, the words themselves are all about fate. Once you have started something you can't stop it. Expressing fate, what's done cannot be undone our destiny is set.
Context: Great Chain of Being - To become a King when that it's not your destiny is impossible. It cannot be undone.
Alternative meaning: the violence they have started is just going to keep growing there is no way of going back. Context that leads to is the idea of patriarchy a women's role is set in society and she can't change it. We can look at Lady Macbeth's motivation in this play as a desire to change her status as a woman. She is not allowed any power or authority unless she is married to it sop she has to change Macbeth's status to improve her own. When she does that patriarchy punishes her, God punishes her and she eventually commits suicide.
3) Turning away from Christianity and this is going to link to supernatural and the way Macbeth and LM are turning towards supernatural help.
The word "it" shows Macbeth is afraid to voice the identity of Satan because what he is doing is so tabboo and transgressive.
The repetition of the word "blood" symbolizes Macbeth's bloodlust that drives him towards killing.
Context: This is caused by being a warrior in this martial society.
The repetition of "will" invokes the idea of fate. As a tragic hero he doesn't believe he can change his fate which is the opposite of a greek tragic hero. Greek tragedies the hero ends up with a tragic death while desperately tring to avoid their fate wheras Macbeth rushes towards it as first as he can.
4) Says this after he has committed regicide. We can see he is being punished by God which leads to our context of Christianity. He is punished by God because he is breaking the Great Chain of Being.
Shakespeare's writing the play for King James and is being peformed in front of King James and the nobles. He wants to flatter King James by pointing out to the nobles the dangers of regicide. You will become King he says but it will be a poisoned chalice. You won't will be able to enjoy it. It will as you see in the events of the play eventually kill you. It is warning to not try overthrow the King which is relevant to the context of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot where they tried to get rid of King James
5) Macbeth is expressing his guilt. He is being punished for his ambition to kill the King but he is also being punished also for this challenge against God. He chooses a pagan god a roman god "Neptune" to talk about here. In his methaphor, he is clearly rejecting a Christian God just as in his actions he is rejecting Christian God. So his own imagery condemns him in the mind of the Jacobean audience as a pagan who has turned against the Christian God. The sin of a tragic hero in greek theatre is hubris - excessive pride - often against the gods. This is exactly what's happening here in Christian context. He is suffering from pride where he rejects a Christian God in front of a Christian audience who will be against him. This links to James I. Shakespeare is saying it is an unchristian act which will be punished by God for you to turn against you king the great chain of being supports this view.. The word "blood" gives us this other clue that his ambition is just as much as to do with bloodlust as becoming King.
6) Partriarchy - Lady Macbeth is the rider that is going to prick his sides and urge him to kill King Duncan. She is taking control and has has power in this relationship. This is totally unexpected in a patriarchal society where power lies with men. But in this marriage Macbeth is happy to give his power to his wife because he trusts her. He says the only has "vaulting ambition" and that this is not enough. That is why ambition is not the thing that makes him kill Duncan. It makes him want to kill King Duncan but it is his bloodlust and love for his wide that pushes him. He says ambition will o'erleap itslef and fall on the other side of the hurdle. This shows he knows from the beginning that he is likely to fail if all he has is ambition.
7) This is an instruction to her husband. An immediate link to the patriarchy showing how much he trusts his wife and how much he willing for her to direct him. In terms of society Shakespeare is describing this is an attack on society. Women known to be worse than men because of orignial sin where eve took the forbidden fruit first and then tempted adam and consequently God punished her worse than adam. That's why get pain of childbirth according to genesis. We're also supposed to be disgusted with Lady Macbeth and Shakespeare gives us that clue with the alliteration of the sound 'f'. That fricative is always agrressive and indicative of disgust. That reflects the audience's opinion which contrasts Macbeth's opinion. Shakespeare is asking in a patriarchal society how on earth do women gain influence? If they can only gain it through me perhaps they are forced by society to become manipulative. They are forced to become what society calls evil. It is not necessarily their fault. Another links through original sin is to Christianity. Is it fair Shakspeare is asking that women are treated not just as second class citizens but also as more evil than men.
8)Last time LM is in partnership with her husband. She is actually imagining being her husband on her way to kill Duncan. That's why she says why then tis time to do it which are Macbeth's thoughts. Because she is ringing the bell twice to give him the instruction that it's safe to kill Duncan.
The "damned spot" suggests her soul is going to hell. Macbeth spends very little time thinking about hell whereas this is something that obsesses LM and possibly links to her suicide at the end. This links to Christianity as she is going to be punished for her unchristian act. And because she has defied the Great Chain of Being God isn't just going to punish her when she's dead he is going to recreate hell whilst she is alive. Shakespeare uses this ironically. Later she will say 'Out, out I say". Macbeth will echoe that in "Out, out brief candle!". He is going to mirror his wife's language. You can use that to show they are still perfectly in love and in tune. Alternatively, it could be symbol of how they are apart as he only starts to echoe her language once she's her dead but in the sleep walking scene she is alone. "Hell is murky" - links to Christian context and to the theme of the supernatuarl. Because LM appeals to the supernatural to "unsex her" she is punished in Hell. This is a punishment Shakespeare's Christians audience would demand - a fitting end to the "fiend-like queen". A modern audience would look beyond that and see how far the patriarchal society has forced LM in making immoral choices in order to achieve power.
9)Christian imagey - the serpent symbolizes the serpent of gensis which the audience would know is the serpent that persuaded Eve to tempt Adam to eat the forbidden fruit. Consequently, LM is directly linked to the idea of hell and the punishment deserces. It suggest Macbeth is being tempted to kill King Duncan by his wife. Alternative interpretation would look Macbeth's innate desire to kill King Duncan and the bloodlust that drives him and blame him. Because in a tragedy it is always the hero's hubris that leads to their downfall. So ultimately the final responisbility has to be Macbeth's not his wfie. Shakespeare also emphasizes how LM challenges the patriarchy. She asks her husband to be feminine - to look like a flower a feminine image. Perhaps Shakespeare is suggesting if male and female roles were more equal this kind of lust for power wouldn't occur. Alternatively, he is demonizing LM in order to punish her for breaking society's patriarchal rules.
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Notes (2)
10) LM is the person who knows Macbeths the best and she feels Macbeth doesn't have it in him to commit regicide to become truly evil. Therfore that backs the idea he doesnt have enough ambition. He needs her to help him. This placs her in the place of Eve tempting Adam. However, the letter Macbeth sent LM telling her about the about the witches promises shows that he knows he needs her help and he encourages it. Therefore he uses her to help him develop the necessary evil to kill Duncan. This is why both of them guilty and both of needed to be punished.
11) The Great Chain of Being - he is saying this is my place as a man. I must be subvertient to my King and to my God. I'm not able to break out of these social constraints but he wants to. He wants to be King and he wants to be in charge of his own destiny.
The repition of the word "dare" shows how Shakepeare is showing off Macbeth's hubris. This is his arrogance. Links beautifully to the patriarchal discussion Shakspeare is having. Macbeth has the opportunity to dare things as a man whereas LM isn't allowed by society. So once again Shakspaere is playing with his audience's expectations and asking about the role of women in society.
12) This links to the idea of appearance vs reality. The word "men" suggests this is attack against patriarchal society and suggests men are the people at fault. Men have caused the evils in society and women are reacting to their powerless state by turning towards alternative means such as the supernatural or towards her husband. Shakespeare is asking what causes men to become so evil and the answer is it is a martial society built on butchery and killing where men who kill are successful. They have to kill in order advance their status in society which is how Macbeth became the Thane of Cawdor.
13) The word "wicked" refers to Macbeth. Macbeth is the supernatural evil that the witches sense. In other words, by transgessing against society and commiting regicide Macbeth has become not just an evil human being but he has a kind of supernatural evil power. This perhaps supernatural power that allows him to kill any man fights apart from one not from woman-born. That stops us thinking the witches words as tricks but perhaps he could have killed thousands of people if Macduff didn't turn up. This links to fate. Macduff turned up because Macbeth killed his family. Macbeth's actions sealed his own fate exactly as a greek tragedy demands. His hubris has led to his downfall.
14) Macbeth has visions which is clear sign he is being punished with madness. This is perhaps fate warning him to not go through with regicide. He is been given the chance to know that killing the King will drive him mad but he rejects that sign. This is typical Greek tragedy his hubristicac action. The other thing it suggests the murder is Macbeth's idea all along. He conjures about the dagger it's his mind. The alliteration of "come" and "clutch" shows he is ordering the dagger to allow him to hold it to kill the King. This flatterS King James becaue it warns the nobles that the consequencs of even thinking about killing the King is that they too will be driven mad.
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15) The use of trochaic tetrameter is like a child's rhyme. This suggests Shakespeare is also playing with King James. King James believed in witches and participated in witch trials so we have clear flattery. On the other hand, by giving a children's rhyme Shakespare is also perhaps positing the idea witches are a fantasy and not real. Shakspeare is perhaps suggesting these particular women are not witches but all they have the power of sight - seeing into the future which is what the oracles did in greek tragedies. They weren't actually evil but telling the tragic hero of their unavoidable fate.
16) The first part is nihilistic. It's a rejection to God's plan to bring the believers heaven and condemn the sinners to heaven. There is no mention of hell here because Macbeth isn't really thinking about it. Death is "dusty" because Macbeth will die without leaving an heir. In contrast to him, Banquo's sons will be kings until the crack of doom. The tragic hero here has turned against his own hubris. He has realised he has embraced fate onto himself and that it's worthless. This is God's punishment which brings us back to theme of Christianity and context of The Great Chain of Being.
17) This paints the world as something without meaning and is nihilistic. This asks why shouldn't we pursue our ambiton no matter where they lead us? This is at the beginning at the play and a contemporary audience would know what happens us a consequence of that. Macbeth at the end believes ambition is pointless. His male ambition has been thwarted but the female ambition of the witches has been realised. They've been able to destroy Macbeth simply by showing the future. They haven't actually made him do anything which can suggest as women in a patriarchal society they have no power to make a man do nothing. Perhaps through the fricative alliteration Shakspeare is conveying his disgust at this or perhaps he wants the audience to feel disgust against the witches because they represent satanic evil.
18) This is LM invoking the power of the supernatural. These are the spirits that are going to attend to serve her. She needs to be unsexed because this is a patriarchal society in which women are denied power. Shakespeare is making a direct link between the way that women are prevented from having power agency, identity and authority with the need to turn for evil or supernatural help. She refers to her head as the "crown" which shows how incredibly ambitious she is. You would normally fill something from the bottom to the top (from the toe to the crown) but because she is obsessed with the idea of becoming queen crown comes first. Finally, we have the absolute criticism of what it is to be a man. She needs to be become full of "direst cruelty" that is what patriarchal society makes males. That's why she thinks she needs to be cruel to succeed. This could perhaps suggest Shakespeare is deeply critical of the patriarchal society that produces these kind of murderous men.
19) Through the methaphor of an actor on stage, life is shown as an illusion and as an script written by something else. This is an attack against God. Macbeth has moved away from the nihilistic view life is meaningless and now he is saying that meaning is written by something else. He is against God controlling his life and is against fate. That's where his hubris has come from. His whole story is trying to improve the script he has been given. This can be seen as an attack on the Great Chain of Being which says we are all given our status at birth and we have to accept it. Macbeth however strives for better our condition, which a contemporary audience would agree with. Perhaps Shakespeare had thought the same because he reinvented himself from the son of a glovemaker to becoming the equillavent of a multi-millionare. Macbeth is talking about the injustice of society because if he is only a "poor" actor living a life only equivalent to a "hour upon the stage" Lady Macbeth's life is even more unfair. This is an attack on the patriarchal society and it shows how Lady Macbeth's death has made him angry at the sciptwriter. The scriptwriter being God or perhaps society and society's expectations. Shakespeare perhaps shared many of these views and is protraying them through Macbeth.
20) Here, we get Macbeth's final nihilistic view excpet there is God and sacreligously that God is an "idiot". He is attacking God for creating a Christian society which is unfair and doesn't offer people opportunities. At the end of the quote, we can see Macbeth feels his whole life has been pointless. It's been a struggle for advancement and has given him no pleasure. This is typical of the tragic hero in their hubristic state to blame everything else and fate instead of himself. In a greek tragedy, fate is responsible and everything that character does to avoid his fate is undermined by hubris but here there is no fate other than Macbeth's hubris. He could have perhaps become King naturally and waited for the future to unfold but chose to shape his own fate. This is what makes him a Shakespearan tragic hero. These lines are a complete attack against society which is based of Christian faith. We would expect a Jacobean audience to reject this view.
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Hi Mr Salles, I just got my literature mock back from march, and I got 26/30 for my macbeth essay, all because of your analysis of the "vaulting ambition" quote and how it links to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's relationship. (The last time I did a literature mock I hadn't seen any of your videos and I just scraped a step 5.) Your content is golden, cannot thank you enough.
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Something we covered in class- the 'innocent flower' and the 'serpent under't' refer directly to the medallion that James I had produced to signify the horrors of the recent Gunpowder Plot. Search 'James 1 gunpowder plot medallion' to see what I mean. The innocent flower may be the reflection of the people hiding their treachery to the King, and the serpent their real, backstabbing intentions. The serpent also links to the similar semantic field with the 'mind full of scorpions'.
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Mr Salles, thank you so much you don't understand, as a student that find English a difficult subject, you are really making it easier for me to understand and giving me hope with passing my exam with a good grade. Keep it up ! :)
the 'blood will have blood' quote reminds me of how it says in the bible an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth this emphasises how Macbeth will be punished not just at the hands of humans but at the hands of God. Divine retribution.
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Beginning to revise English for my upcoming exams what better way to discover an excellent teacher who makes English fun.
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Thanks sooo much , these quotes really helped me in the exam today. Couldn't have done it without them and their amazing word-level analysis. Thanks you sooo much😊 😊😊
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Hey Mr Salles, I wanted to ask, for longer quotes like the one at 9:52, should you write out the whole quote in the exam? My teacher says to write short and concise quotes.
Your teacher is right, but sometimes you might want to delve into different parts of a longer quote, so use an ellipsis to get rid of the words you don't need.
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Hi mr salles, Dk if u remember me but I used to watch your videos for Macbeth and I was one of the first few ppl to purchase your ‘ultimate guide to Macbeth’ analysis book which got me a grade 9 (although I didn’t take my GCSEs!) Everything in there was so analytical and contextually very good aswell. I was wondering if you can produce a book like this for Shakespeare’s Othello (A level). Thank you
Sorry, I've just written one for Romeo and Juliet which no one is buying! There is even less interest in Othello.
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Mr Salles, is 'False face must hide what the false heart doth know' a quote from Macbeth, not Lady Macbeth?
Those two dislikes are from macbeth and lady macbeth
Mr salles if we have multiple interpretations for a character in an exam how do you write about both interpretations for example Sheila
make one for an inspector calls, it's very helpful
Thanks these type of videos r especially helpful. Could you do the same with other texts.
Hello sir.
I'm aware that it's of course absolutely necessary to explore connotations of key words and techniques used in macbeth quotes but how about animal farm? Do you have to closely examine each quote and discuss the various meanings and analyse each word??
Because I was told I should but I can't quite see how that makes sense - it's not like poetry or something where there are deep meanings to each line and there are millions of techniques to choose from.
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And that hubris is students saying 'I watched Mr Salles, I'm gonna get a 9' and then they end up getting 3's due to their pride.
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Hello Sir, i was just wondering if you could make the same video for quotes in Dr jekyll & Mr Hyde and if you could possibly make a video predicting what you think the question will be for the 2022 exams for Macbeth and J&H. Thank you!!!
was going to ask the same thing.
Hi Mr Salles these quotes are amazing! i just was wondering if you could tell me what theme each quote would work well with
You need to watch my video on the themes of Macbeth
In light of the fact that "False face must hide what the false heart doth know." comes from Macbeth in response to Lady Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 7) and not Lady Macbeth herself, here is an alternate interpretation stemming from the main points of the original analysis.
CONTEXT: Patriarchal society says it is men in control yet it is Macbeth who is influenced by his wife. This parallels/mirrors the story of Adam and Eve as Macbeth succumbs to Lady Macbeth's reasoning and influence, once again proving his trust and love in her. Shakespeare suggests the original sin still prevails in Jacobean Society.
The use of fricatives in Macbeth's speech suggest power and aggression traditionally associated with the stereotypical male of the time. Through Macbeth's speech, Shakespeare may be questioning the role of women as having greater evil but also more influence which they can only achieve through their husbands and/or male relatives. He questions how/why women obtain power and whether they are evil for seeking it or men, instead, for denying it and leading women to obtain it through ungodly and corrupt ways.
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tysm very helpful i was a bit puzzled when this quote came out but we all make mistakes
hi sir, are you thinking of doing a level videos in the future? because i think i'm going to pick english lit as i'm now doing so well in gcse thanks to u, but i honestly don't know how i'd be able to cope without ur videos.
Of course you will cope! I am not making ALevel vids at the minute, but if you have a popular text, I may do so
@@MrSallesTeachesEnglish thanks, i'm just worried about the content being overwhelming. at the sixth form i hope to go to some of the texts are handmaid's tail, othello, death of a salesman and the kite runner which i think are quite popular
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This is helpful thanks sir .
Do I need to learn any other quotes about Banquo or Macduff beacuse all the wuotes r about macbeth and lady macbeth and a bit on the witches?
i found the contex and themes on the paper really helpful to link quotes with is there anything similar with a christmas carol
hi sir thank you for these videos could you possibly do a video on macduff with good quotes to use
Hello this is very helpful is there anyway you can do the same for Dr Jekyll and mr Hyde
Yes, I will do if this one takes off.
Throughout the play disrupting the great chain through regicide is presented as a damned act
So why would at 30:44 would Shakespeare want to go against this idea and say well actually we should ignore the great chain completely it’s not productive for ourselves or society?
I don’t get this part
I have trouble structuring and wording my essay even if i know fully what the analysis is, do you have any tips on how to deal with it
Do ur interpretation, explain what it means, add a quotation, go into any symbolism or/ and context, back it up with a supporting quote, in that quote zoom in on a word/language feature/ structural feature, anything you wish & then link it back to the question
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Macbeth's hides his sinister intentions through desiring to look innocent so that no suspicions can be raised against him
(Interpretation) . This reflects Macbeth's accelerating regecidal ambition which ultimately bring the Jacobean audience suprised, especially King James who is Shakespeare's richest patron(explaination and context). This can be seen through the juxtaposition(language) 'Let light not see my deep black desires'(quote) . Furthermore, the adjective (zoom)'deep' (word) implies how Macbeth's thoughts of regecide will not be changed as his collosal ambition has ultimately taken over him. (explain and link)
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Lady Ms advise could have been less to do with regicide but more with telling him to be patient but she chooses not too, Clearly Macbeth gets manipulated by Lady M so easily, and so he becomes Lady M, he does as she say and becomes her, if only she were a man she could be so violent. So therefore when she dies, her legacy does keep going through what she shaped in Macbeth, but of cores it falls because Shakespeare message is to convince nobles not to commit regicide. This can further be proven as they do both say 'out, out'
lady macbeth didn't say the 7th quote, macbeth did, it was the very last line of act 1 scene 7
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If i only learn these quotes, will it be enough?
Could you please do The Woman in Black by Susan Hill? Your videos really hit the next level :)
Sorry, it isn't a text I teach
That background music being used In another Mr salles video
Do u think I should learn these quotes for the 2023 Exam?
Yes
Does anyone know why at around 10:36, he says Lady Macbeth represents a “spur” followed by saying that he has no spur, despite the analysis saying that he is giving Lady Macbeth power?
“I have no spur” suggests that Macbeth doesn’t have the motivation to kill without his wife. But later Lady Macbeth acts as the spur to influence the murder and he is motivated to commit the murder to prove his masculinity as well as please his wife. she is the reason he commits it and she is also using her husband to take power as well, as in a patriarchal, male dominated society a woman would need to use her husband
if that makes sense
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Do you think I should learn these quotes for the 2022 exams???
Yes
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Lady Macbeth does not say false face must hide what false face doth know
Great video but music kinda makes it hard to focus
so these quotes are enough for the exam?
Get a past question and see if you can answer it using just these quotations
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@@urrnothim do you think using just these quotes worked?
@@Hi-uj4zj when i did questions i was able to answer most, nearly all, so yes. But ive got his guide now so im using other quotes aswell for the final exam
@@urrnothimwhat other quotes are you using
Isnt the quote "false face must hide what the false heart doth know" by Macbeth and not LM
You are right
@@MrSallesTeachesEnglish wouldn't that affect the analysis?
are these pretty much all i need to know?
Pick a couple of past paper questions, and see if you can answer them with these., then you'll see how useful they are, and if they are enough.
@@MrSallesTeachesEnglish but do you think it will be enough to cover most theme if u have enough analysis for each one?
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