Act 5 — Macbeth — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
Act 5
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking and death, 'Tomorrow, and tomorrow', the battle and Macbeth's death, and Malcolm's restoration.
Key quotations: 'Out, damned spot!', 'Here's the smell of the blood still', 'Hell is murky', 'Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe / Upon a dwarfish thief', 'my way of life / Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf', 'Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased', 'She should have died hereafter', 'Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow', 'Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing', 'Macduff was from his mother's womb / Untimely ripp'd', 'Lay on, Macduff', 'this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen'.
Form: Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking in prose, and the equivocations that come true.
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.
