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1) If I was comparing MY LAST DUCHESS to LONDON:
- both poems show how inequalities in power always seem to victimise women. It is women who suffer in the transaction of power with men who want ownership over their bodies -- whether aristocracy or street prostitutes.
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@htv7tR3DuIiyVS9 Because Father Garnet - who was tried for the Gunpowder Plot alongside Guy Fawkes - famously equivocated in his trial. It tells you all about it here: https://t.co/oTimgNM7ds
8 important contexts for #macbeth
James I as king of England & Scotland
Beliefs any witches
Expectations for noblemen + noblewomen
A hierarchical society
The importance of loyalty in a feudal society
Divine right of kings
Damnation
Equivocation + Gunpowder plot
#gcseenglish
Another easy one to start. What are the important imagery patterns in #macbeth?
Blood
Sleeplessness
Hell
Unnatural Events
Clothes
Hands
Children
#gcseenglishlit#revise#gcseenglish
Welcome back to GCSE revision season!
Let’s start with an easy one.
The key themes for #macbeth are
- ambition
- guilt
- loyalty
- kingship
- masculinity
- femininity
- the supernatural
- fate and free will
- evil
#gcseenglish#englishlit#revise
This is an amazing revision resource for #macbeth for #gcseenglishlit. @_almosttangible have produced a brilliant, FREE immersive podcast of #macbeth. A brilliant way to revise. Available on iTunes - 4 30 minute episodes. Download now!
Macbeth was based on a story from Holinshed’s Chronicles, but Shakespeare makes many changes - eg, Banquo was originally Macbeth’s accomplice; the witches are not linked the the devil; Macbeth rules for 17 years in the source.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is set in 1880s London, but is heavily influenced by Edinburgh, where Stevenson grew up, which had two very different sides to the city (Old and New Town). Stevenson uses this setting to explore duality.
Next tip: know when your text is set.
Examples for our texts below:
Macbeth is set in medieval Scotland, which Shakespeare uses to explore Jacobean politics in a different setting.