How Shakespeare presents Macduff, and how the character develops across the text: loyalty, grief and his role in defeating Macbeth.
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 horror, horror, horror!', 'Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope / The Lord's anointed temple', 'He loves us not', 'Bleed, bleed, poor country!', 'All my pretty ones?', 'But I must also feel it as a man', 'Macduff was from his mother's womb / Untimely ripp'd', 'The usurper's cursed head'.
Different readings of his leaving his family, and his manhood set against Macbeth's.
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.
