Writer's methods — Macbeth — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
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').
Edexcel's Shakespeare question has two parts: part (a) on the printed extract marks only language, form and structure (AO2), so context earns nothing there; part (b) on the play elsewhere, from memory, marks the argument and its references (AO1, 15 marks) and context (AO3, 5 marks), not language analysis. Say which part each worked paragraph and exam tip is for.
