Act 2 — Macbeth — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
Act 2
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
The dagger soliloquy, Duncan's murder, the Porter, the discovery and the flight of Malcolm and Donalbain.
Key quotations: 'Is this a dagger which I see before me', 'I go, and it is done', 'Macbeth does murder sleep', 'Infirm of purpose!', 'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?', 'A little water clears us of this deed', 'an equivocator', 'Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope / The Lord's anointed temple', 'There's daggers in men's smiles', 'Even like the deed that's done'.
Form: the dagger soliloquy, the short shared lines after the murder, and the Porter's prose.
Eduqas's Shakespeare questions don't mark context: the extract question (15 marks) and the whole-play essay (20 marks, plus 5 for spelling, punctuation, vocabulary and sentence structures) both mark response and analysis of language, form and structure (AO1 and AO2). Use context only in a phrase that supports an interpretation, and say which question each worked paragraph practises.
