MACBETH - High Ability - GCSE

Twenty-Eight PowerPoints exploring each scene of ‘Macbeth’ for mid-high level GCSE Engish Literature classes.

The PowerPoints contain exploration of themes: Gender & Identity; Appearance and Reality; Children; Ambition, Fate & Freewill; Guilt; and Kingship

There is also exploration of Genre, Shakespeare’s Method and Context.

This includes:

Dramatic Tragedy Genre:
Tragic Hero; Tragic Villain(s); Tragic Victim(s); Perpeteia; Anagnorisis; Rising & Falling Action; Catharisis; Endings; Hubris; Hamartia; Overreaching; Limits of Humanity

Shakespeare’s Method:
Shakespeare’s use of Language inc. Phantasmagoria, Equivocation & Lexical Fields/Motifs; Structure; Stagecraft; Dramatic Irony; Characterisation & Foils; Men of Thought/Men of Action; and Setting

Context:
Medieval/Shakespearean/Jacobean Gender Expectations; The Role of Medieval Kings; Elizabethan Great Chain of Being; The Divine Right of Kings; The Body Politic & The Body Natural; Regicide & Sacrilege; Witchcraft; Elizabeth I & James I (VI); Medieval Children; Fathers & Sons; Jacobean Male Friendships; Ontological Death; Insanity; some of Sigmund Freud’s ideas on Macbeth/Lady Macbeth

The above is not exhaustive. PowerPoints are also not definitive. There will be other analysis and interpretations that can be applied alongside as the teacher wishes.

The teacher can choose to focus on some, or all of the slides, as the class requires.

Underneath most slides are teacher notes to aid with class teaching. These can be shared with students as and when the teacher sees fit.

Best wishes,

Englbee x