Explore shakespeares use of language devices and dramatic effects and how they reveal the action of ambition on the characters Macbeth or Lady Macbeth.
Planning: Sacrifice their humanity, Macbeth, Iambic pentameter, Symbolism, Soliloquy
intro: Main point on Macbeth losing his life through ambition.
BP 1: Iambic pentameter breaking down at the end Quotes: “The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!” Act 5 scene 5 , “Life’s but a walking shadow” Act 5 scene 5
BP 2: Symbolism used to portray another thing: “Is this a dagger which I see before me” act 2 scene 2 , “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood” act 2 scene 2
BP 3: Soliloquy’s used in the play: Use Macbeths final soliloquy and his one first one in Act 2 Scene 1
BP 4: metaphor and how they are used – “they have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly, But bear-like I must fight the course.” Act 5 scene 7
conclusion:
Body paragraph 1: Shakespeare uses the iambic pentameter (A line of 5 feet of which the first is unstressed and the second is stressed making one foot) in all his plays and once the rhythm has broken, something important will be happening. This is shown at the end for Macbeth which because of his ambition has payed the price when Shakespeare gets Macbeth to say “The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!” which is the first time in the play that Macbeth breaks the pentameter meaning this will be the last blow for him before his fall.
Introduction: Roadmap to the structure of the essay, Set context, Capture the readers attention.
Quote for introduction: