Act 3 — Macbeth — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
Act 3
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Macbeth as king, Banquo's murder and Fleance's escape, the banquet and Banquo's ghost.
Key quotations: 'To be thus is nothing; / But to be safely thus', 'Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown', 'O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!', 'Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck', 'Come, seeling night', 'Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!', 'never shake / Thy gory locks at me', 'Are you a man?', 'I am in blood / Stepp'd in so far', 'Nought's had, all's spent'.
How the balance between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth shifts, and the banquet as a public collapse.
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.
