Macbeth The Natural Order Lesson

This lesson covers key Jacobean context, an audience and reader’s expectations, extensive analysis and questioning of the scene and possible extracts, key quotes with grade 9 analysis notes, critical theorists and relevant quotes, as well as a writing question to prepare students for essay responses.

Quotes included:
“dark night strangles the travelling lamp”
“A falcon tow’ring in her pride of place, was a mousing owl hawk’d at and kill’d”
“darkness does the face of Earth entomb”
“‘Tis unnatural, Even like the deed that’s done.”

Working towards:
Starting with this extract, examine how Shakespeare presents the natural order