Duncan and Malcolm — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
Duncan and Malcolm
Characters
What you need to know
How Shakespeare presents Duncan and Malcolm, and how the character develops across the text: good kingship, and its restoration at the end.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!', 'There's no art / To find the mind's construction in the face', 'He was a gentleman on whom I built / An absolute trust', 'This castle hath a pleasant seat', 'his virtues / Will plead like angels', 'the king-becoming graces', 'Bleed, bleed, poor country!', 'this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen'.
Context: the divine right of kings, Edward the Confessor's healing touch, and Malcolm's test of Macduff.
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.
