GCSE English Literature: Macbeth – Ambition, Guilt and Power

Categories: English Literature, GCSE
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About Course

An exam-focused guide to Shakespeare’s Macbeth: Jacobean context, how Macbeth and Lady Macbeth change across the play, the key themes of ambition, guilt and the supernatural, and how to write analytical answers on an extract and the whole play. Quotations follow the Folger Shakespeare edition of this public-domain play.

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What Will You Learn?

  • Use Jacobean context – King James I, the Divine Right of Kings and witchcraft – to explain the play Track the changing relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth Analyse key quotations on ambition, guilt and the supernatural Plan and write an extract-to-whole-play answer that meets the assessment objectives

Course Content

Course Lessons

  • Context: kings, witches and the Jacobean audience
  • Macbeth: from hero to tyrant
  • Lady Macbeth and the theme of guilt
  • Writing a top answer on Macbeth

For grown-ups
Sources and further reading for parents, carers and teachers.

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