How Shakespeare explores guilt and conscience, in Macbeth and Lady Macbeth across the text, and why it matters to the text's meaning.
Where it appears, the key quotations that show it, and different ways it can be interpreted.
Evidence from the beginning, middle and end of the text.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?', 'Macbeth does murder sleep', 'A little water clears us of this deed', 'O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!', 'never shake / Thy gory locks at me', 'Out, damned spot!', 'Here's the smell of the blood still', 'Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased'.
The motifs of blood, sleep and washing, and how guilt changes places between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
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.
