Oasis Academy South Bank

GCSE English LiteratureOne hour per day

Week 1

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Look cover write check:Captain: ‘For brave Macbeth… / Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel, / Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valour's minion carved out his passage’.Lady Macbeth: ‘look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under't.’Lady Macbeth: ‘What beast was't, then, / That made you break this enterprise to me? / When you durst do it, then you were a man.Macbeth: ‘Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?’Banquo: ‘Why…may they not be my oracles as well,/ And set me up in hope? But hush! no more.’Macbeth: ‘‘Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, / Till thou applaud the deed.’Macbeth: ‘Then live, Macduff: what need I fear of thee?’Macbeth: ‘Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage’

Moment within play + line + in other words ++ subject terms & analysis1. In Act 1.2, Shakespeare uses the Captain to present Macbeth as an archetypal

hero-warrior. “For brave Macbeth… / Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel, / Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valour's minion carved out his passage’ ’. In other words, Macbeth bravely and fearlessly carved his way through the enemy soldiers with no regard for his own fate. The image of Macbeth’s steaming, bloody sword, emphasises Macbeth’s brutal, but noble qualities.

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Read this extract from Act 1.7. At this point in the play Macbeth has left the state banquet for King Duncan, worried by what he is planning to do. Lady Macbeth stirs up her spirits again.MACBETHHe's here in double trust;First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath beenSo clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsedUpon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itselfAnd falls on the other. [Enter LADY MACBETH] How now! what news?

LADY MACBETHHe has almost supp'd: why have you left the chamber?

MACBETHHath he ask'd for me?

LADY MACBETHKnow you not he has?

MABCETHWe will proceed no further in this business: He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people, Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,Not cast aside so soon.

LADY MACBETHWas the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely?

Macbeth voices his reasons for not wanting to kill Duncan. For example… + in other words… + this reveals… In addition…

Shakespeare reveals Macbeth’s indecision here. It is as if he is caught between… + more precisely…+ for example… + in other words…

+ ‘I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself / And falls on the other.’++ Shakespeare presents Macbeth as being aware of his own character at this point. More precisely…+ in other words… ++ It is as if…

++ Shakespeare structures the play around Duncan’s murder – the before, during and after. The common factor at each of these points is Macbeth’s fear of someone or something. For example… +in addition… +furthermore…

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In this extract from Act 3.1 Having summoned murderers, Macbeth reveals his fears about Banquo.

MACBETHOur fears in BanquoStick deep; and in his royalty of natureReigns that which would be fear'd: 'tis much he dares;And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valourTo act in safety. There is none but heWhose being I do fear: and, under him,My Genius is rebuked; as, it is said,Mark Antony's was by Caesar. He chid the sistersWhen first they put the name of king upon me,And bade them speak to him: then prophet-likeThey hail'd him father to a line of kings:Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand,No son of mine succeeding. If 't be so,For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind;For them the gracious Duncan have I murder'd;Put rancours in the vessel of my peaceOnly for them; and mine eternal jewelGiven to the common enemy of man,To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!

In short, Macbeth reveals why he is jealous of Banquo. More precisely… + for example… furthermore… +revealing +Structurally, this moment is significant because…

Shakespeare uses imagery in this scene to portray Macbeth’s fear and jealousy. For example, he refers to

a ‘fruitless crown’ and ‘barren sceptre’. In other words... + more specifically… + this reveals...

Shakespeare also suggests that Macbeth has ‘filed [his] mind’. In other words… + because… + more precisely…

++ In this extract, and throughout the play, Shakespeare establishes Banquo as a foil to Macbeth. In other words… + more precisely… + for example… + this reveals…

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Read this extract from Act 1.3, and then answer the question that follows. At this point in the play Macbeth and Banquo have just heard the witches’ prophecies.

MACBETHDo you not hope your children shall be kings, When those that gave the thane of Cawdor to mePromised no less to them?

BANQUOThat trusted home Might yet enkindle you unto the crown, Besides the thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence. Cousins, a word, I pray you.

MACBETH [Aside]Two truths are told,As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme.—I thank you, gentlemen.[Aside] This supernatural solicitingCannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill,Why hath it given me earnest of success,Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor.If good, why do I yield to that suggestionWhose horrid image doth unfix my hairAnd make my seated heart knock at my ribs,Against the use of nature? My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,Shakes so my single state of manThat function is smothered in surmise,And nothing is but what is not.

Starting with this extract, how does Shakespeare present Macbeth as a flawed character?

How does Shakespeare present Macbeth in this extract? How does Shakespeare present Macbeth in the play as a whole?

Date:Use Look cover write check to learn these quotations1. Enfield attempts to describe Hyde: “There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something

downright detestable.”2. Utterson’s ‘nightmares’ about Hyde “to see it glide more stealthily through sleeping houses… through wider labyrinths

of lamplighted city, and at every street-corner crush a child and leave her screaming.”3. Utterson about Hyde “if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face”4. Narrator describes Dr Jekyll’s appearance: “A large, smooth faced man of fifty, with something of a slyish cast

perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness.”5. “Mr. Hyde broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth… with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim

under foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered”6. Hyde’s lodging in Soho: “the first fog of the season. A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven,” “The

dismal quarter of Soho… with its muddy ways, and slatternly passengers seemed like a district of some city in a nightmare.”

7. Lanyon describing his disillusion with life to Mr Utterson: “I sometimes think if we knew all, we should be more glad to get away.”

8. Dr Jekyll in his final confession: “I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.”

Put each memorised line within its moment in the novella+ line +paraphrase ++ subject terms & analysis1. In the opening chapter the reader first hears Hyde described by Utterson’s cousin Mr Enfield,

in the line, “There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable.” In other words, there is something about him that is truly disgusting and disturbing but I can’t put my finger on what. Stevenson’s repetition of “something” clearly highlights the uncanniness and of the description.

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In this extract from chapter 2, Utterson dreams about the mysterious Mr Hyde whom his cousin Enfield has described to him.Six o'clock struck on the bells of the church that was so conveniently near to Mr. Utterson's dwelling, and still he was digging at the problem. Hitherto it had touched him on the intellectual side alone; but now his imagination also was engaged, or rather enslaved; and as he lay and tossed in the gross darkness of the night and the curtained room, Mr. Enfield's tale went by before his mind in a scroll of lighted pictures. He would be aware of the great field of lamps of a nocturnal city; then of the figure of a man walking swiftly; then of a child running from the doctor's; and then these met, and that human Juggernaut trod the child down and passed on regardless of her screams. Or else he would see a room in a rich house, where his friend lay asleep, dreaming and smiling at his dreams; and then the door of that room would be opened, the curtains of the bed plucked apart, the sleeper recalled, and lo! there would stand by his side a figure to whom power was given, and even at that dead hour, he must rise and do its bidding. The figure in these two phases haunted the lawyer all night; and if at any time he dozed over, it was but to see it glide more stealthily through sleeping houses, or move the more swiftly and still the more swiftly, even to dizziness, through wider labyrinths of lamplighted city, and at every street-corner crush a child and leave her screaming. And still the figure had no face by which he might know it; even in his dreams, it had no face, or one that baffled him and melted before his eyes; and thus it was that there sprang up and grew apace in the lawyer's mind a singularly strong, almost an inordinate, curiosity to behold the features of the real Mr. Hyde.

In short, Mr Utterson’s dream reveals his two typically Victorian fears about the Mr Hyde. More specifically… +for example… +it is as if…

Stevenson uses the image of the faceless Mr Hyde travelling through “wider labyrinths of a lamplighted city” to evoke the urban terror of his Victorian audience. More specifically…

Similarly, perhaps Stevenson repeats the idea of Hyde having “no face” to highlight the anonymity of urban crime. More precisely…

Stevenson also uses this passage to reveal Mr Utterson’s fixation with Hyde; his “inordinate curiousity”. Does Utterson’s obsession with the disturbing man symbolise his own duality, his attraction to the darker side of life? Yes/ no/ it depends because…

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In this extract from Chapter 10 – Jekyll’s confession – Dr Jekyll describes the moment he (as Hyde) murdered Carew and his conflicted feelings afterwardsInstantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeed, that I was suddenly, in the top fit of my delirium, struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror. A mist dispersed; I saw my life to be forfeit; and fled from the scene of these excesses, at once glorying and trembling, my lust of evil gratified and stimulated, my love of life screwed to the topmost peg. I ran to the house in Soho, and (to make assurance doubly sure) destroyed my papers; thence I set out through the lamplit streets, in the same divided ecstasy of mind, gloating on my crime, light-headedly devising others in the future, and yet still hastening and still hearkening in my wake for the steps of the avenger. Hyde had a song upon his lips as he compounded the draught, and as he drank it, pledged the dead man. The pangs of transformation had not done tearing him, before Henry Jekyll, with streaming tears of gratitude and remorse, had fallen upon his knees and lifted his clasped hands to God. The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot, I saw my life as a whole: I followed it up from the days of childhood, when I had walked with my father's hand, and through the self-denying toils of my professional life, to arrive again and again, with the same sense of unreality, at the damned horrors of the evening. I could have screamed aloud; I sought with tears and prayers to smother down the crowd of hideous images and sounds with which my memory swarmed against me; and still, between the petitions, the ugly face of my iniquity stared into my soul. As the acuteness of this remorse began to die away, it was succeeded by a sense of joy. The problem of my conduct was solved. Hyde was thenceforth impossible; whether I would or not, I was now confined to the better part of my existence; and oh, how I rejoiced to think it! with what willing humility, I embraced anew the restrictions of natural life! with what sincere renunciation, I locked the door by which I had so often gone and come, and ground the key under my heel!

In short, Hyde’s immediate reaction to the crime is one of glee and excitement. Hyde’s only fear is of capture. For example… +in other words… +revealing…

However, Stevenson portrays Jekyll as immediately feeling intense regret, followed by joy at the ‘problem’ of Hyde being finally solved. More specifically… +revealing…

Despite’s Hyde’s appaling crimes, Jekyll’s wording in this scene creates quite a self-pitying tone. As if Jekyll

wants the reader to feel sorry for him. For example.. +suggesting… +similarly…

++ Through the description of Jekyll’s attempts to suppress Hyde, Stevenson explores every person’s worst fear of the darkness within their own soul. Our fear of our worst selves. More specifically… +for example.. +in the image of…

Stevenson emphasises the animalistic viciousness of Hyde’s attack on Carew. For example… +suggesting… +it is as if… +similarly…

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Read this extract and then answer the question that follows:Read this extract from chapter 4 in which Hyde’s brutal murder of Carew is described.

The moon shone on [Carew’s] face as he spoke, and the girl was pleased to watch it, it seemed to breathe such an innocent and old-world kindness of disposition, yet with something high too, as of a well-founded self-content. Presently her eye wandered to the other man, and she was surprised to recognise in him a certain Mr. Hyde, who had once visited her master and for whom she had conceived a dislike. He had in his hand a heavy cane, with which he was trifling; but he answered never a word, and seemed to listen with an ill-contained impatience. And then all of a sudden he broke out in a great flame of anger, stamping with his foot, brandishing the cane, and carrying on (as the maid described it) like a madman. The old gentleman took a step back, with the air of one very much surprised and a trifle hurt; and at that Mr. Hyde broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth. And next moment, with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped upon the roadway. At the horror of these sights and sounds, the maid fainted.”“There lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled. The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty; and one splintered half had rolled in the neighbouring gutter—“

Starting with this extract, how does Stevenson present Hyde as causing fear?

How does Stevenson present Hyde as causing fear in this extract?

How does Stevenson present Hyde as causing fear in the novella as a whole?