Morality in Macbeth from act 3 scene 2 (2 quotes) from the play (2 quotes)
There is a structure that needs to be followed: Point Evidence (quote) Explanation and language device (simile/metaphor…) One word focus Alternative insight Audience reaction (Jacobean audience) AQA mark scheme (UK GCSE) Question Read the following extract from Act 3 Scene 2 and answer the question that follows. At this point in the play, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are discussing their thoughts following the murder of Duncan. Starting with this extract, how does Shakespeare present the theme of morality? LADY MACBETH How now, my lord! why do you keep alone, Of sorriest fancies your companions making, Using those thoughts which should indeed have died With them they think on? Things without all remedy Should be without regard: what′s done is done. [unique_solution]MACBETH We have scotch′d the snake, not kill′d it: She′ll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice Remains in danger of her former tooth. But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly: better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave; After life′s fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further. Write about: • how Shakespeare presents the theme of morality in this extract • how Shakespeare presents the theme of morality in the play as a whole [30 marks] [AO4 4