Writer's methods — Macbeth — AQA GCSE English Literature 8702
AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Writer's methods
Writer's methods
What you need to know
How Shakespeare's form, structure and language create meaning: tragedy and the tragic hero, soliloquies and asides,
dramatic irony, verse and prose, and imagery such as blood, darkness, sleep and clothing.
Form: tragedy and the tragic hero; soliloquies and asides; blank verse, prose (the Porter, the sleepwalking scene) and the witches' rhyme; shared and broken-off lines.
Structure and imagery: dramatic irony, the play's speed, and the motifs of blood, sleep, darkness and clothes ('like a giant's robe').
