 and welcome, welcome to last minute, Macbeth revision. Now, guys, the way the phone is positioned, I can't actually see your comments. So what I'm gonna do, guys, is I'm gonna begin by going over literally last, last, last, last, last, last 11th hour GCSE revision for Macbeth, okay? So guys, I literally can't see the comments, okay? The way I'm recording this on my phone, so I've only seen about the back of the phone. So every so often I am gonna be checking comments. However, guys, just to be clear, today this live is gonna be, I'm gonna keep it to maybe an hour, 30 minutes max, okay? Maybe it might overrun just a little bit, but I'm trying to keep it to an hour, 30 minutes max, because let's be real, guys, you obviously need to make sure you put in the practice independently and I'm not trying to go to sleep quite late, okay? So guys, I'm an early bird when it comes to sleeping and I'm trying to keep this to one hour, 30 minutes. So guys, what I wanna do in today evening's live our last, last, last, last minute Macbeth revision live is number one, I wanna recap on the top things if you forget everything else. The main thing to remember for context, themes and characters. And of course also quotations to consider for all three. That's the first thing I'm gonna do. The second thing I'm going to do is I'm gonna review different past paper questions and show you guys how you can plan and respond when writing about different questions that might come up with Macbeth. Now, as I mentioned, guys, I'm trying to keep this to an hour and 30 minutes, meaning. What I'm not gonna do is go over every single past paper question and write my full model answers. Otherwise it'd be here all night long and I'm not trying to do that. But what I will do guys is I will show you how to write effective essay plans, quotations to remember and to consider and of course also context. This is in connection with the main themes that have come up in the past. Also, everyone's talking about the theme of kingship. So guys, what I might also do is kind of add like one or two paragraphs and show you guys how a paragraph looks like, a model response looks like. Just one or two paragraphs, max and theme of kingship and how you can write about it when it comes to Macbeth. So guys, for those of you that have tuned in, welcome to this evening revision live on Macbeth. And as you can see behind me, I have literally summarized the main context points to consider when it comes to Macbeth. But equally, the main themes to consider. Okay, so if you get everything else, remember these themes and main characters. So these are the major characters, but also the minor characters. I did, I was kind of in two places about Malcolm's character because to be honest, beyond kingship, I don't think Malcolm's character is that important as a character. I would actually classify him as a minor character. But because everyone's talking about the theme of kingship, I have put him as one of the main characters, okay? But to be honest, beyond the theme of kingship, or if you're talking about, for instance, leadership power, which basically falls under the same umbrella as kingship, Malcolm is quite useful. But to be honest, beyond that, I really don't think Malcolm's character is that central. And certainly I don't think you're gonna get like a character question only focused on Malcolm. So he's kind of one of those characters who he's kind of important, but also not. He's important in theme of kingship, but then beyond that, there's nothing else, okay? Anyway, guys, so let's begin with last minute revision. If you forget everything else, this is what to write about with context. And as I mentioned, guys, once I'm done kind of summarizing this, I am gonna check the comments if there's any questions and then I'll dive into actual past paper questions. We'll review all questions, look at how you can write model essay plans for a range of different questions, and I'll also show you sample paragraphs, okay? So let's begin by talking about context if you forget everything else. Guys, context is your AO3 in Macbeth, okay? So the main context points are these three contextual factors. Number one, Macbeth is a play talking about the chaos that ensues, the chaos that happens when divine right of kings is subverted and it is destroyed. This is contextually relevant to the fact that number one, it was being performed in front of King James's court. He's a new king. There's lots of nobles at the time who firstly were Catholics and he was Protestant. There's lots of nobles also who were English and they were seeing him as this foreign Scottish king. So I love them more thinking about overthrowing him, okay? A lot of them didn't really like the idea of being ruled by this foreign Scottish king who was still is Catholic. And of course, Guy Fawkes decides to take this into his own hands, still contextual factors. He takes it into his own hands and decides to try and blow up the houses of parliament, but then he is unsuccessful in doing this. Remember Macbeth is staged a year after the gunpowder plot, okay? So this is the main points to consider when it comes to the divine right of kings. Shakespeare was sending a very clear message to his audience on the importance of not violating divine right of kings. He obviously had the idea of Guy Fawkes, okay? So the notion of a king being usurped was something that was very, very vivid in their minds and Shakespeare is using Macbeth as a cautionary figure to show the chaos that ensues when divine right of kings is violated. And of course, when people try to go above the social position and the social hierarchy and they go above the position and the great chain of being. That's the first context point, okay? So divine right, you can tie it to King James, foreign king, Guy Fawkes. He tries to blow up the houses of parliament. And thirdly, Macbeth is performed a year after the gunpowder plot. That's the first context point. Second context point is to do the supernatural. Firstly, Jacobians were very, very superstitious people. They believed that the supernatural should not be trusted because the witches and supernatural agents are agents of chaos. Remember when, if you for example, so I personally feel so in, if you guys have watched the video that I did with Mr. Sallies, I personally feel if it's not a Lady Macbeth question, I think the theme question that can come up in the supernatural. So I personally don't feel like kingship is gonna come up, but I'm going over it because everyone is like, oh my gosh, kingship. I actually think supernatural could be one of the questions that comes up, right? The theme related question. And if you're writing about the supernatural as a theme, the top thing to remember is number one, the witches speak in riddles and equivocations. In other words, they speak indirectly. They speak in ways where they're not lying, but they're not also telling truths. They're only revealing partial truths, meaning people like Macbeth act on these partial truths and make a series of mistakes that lead to their downfall, okay? So in terms of supernatural with context, make sure you tie the idea of the witches not being trustworthy characters. But equally, this is emphasized through King James himself who was obsessed with the worry and he was plagued by doubts and fears about him being toppled from power by people who were influenced by witches, okay? And he wrote this in his book called Demonology, okay? So of course, this is him basically still in his book, basically saying, you should never trust the witches, they are agents of chaos. That's the second context point. Third and final context point, and this illustrates, especially it's related to Lady Macbeth's character, is to do with women's roles in Jacobian society. Remember that Lady Macbeth was called the fourth witch by Jacobians at the time because firstly, she was very ambitious, women at the time who were wives and so on were expected to simply have an ambition of just serving their husbands, being very passive and obedient to their husbands. Lady Macbeth goes against this. She questions her husband, she even questions his masculinity. She tells him what to do and she's also incredibly ambitious. Equally, Lady Macbeth herself calls on the supernatural to unsex her, in other words, she sees her femininity as a sign of weakness. And the fact that she wanted to go against the femininity, again, illustrates that she didn't follow her nature as a woman. Women at the time, Jacobian women, were meant to basically follow the husbands, be very passive and have no ambition, okay? So Lady Macbeth was called the fourth witch as a result of this. She went against her role as a Jacobian woman. She's used in contrast to Macduff's wife, okay? So this is Lady Macduff. Lady Macduff in contrast to Lady Macbeth, she is the quintessentially perfect queen and the perfect Jacobian woman. She's passive. Her husband doesn't include her in any of his plans. In fact, he runs off and she doesn't even know why he's run off, okay? And all she can do is just sit around and feel really sorry for herself. Oh my gosh, I can't believe my husband has run off whilst you've got Lady Macbeth, who is very, very vocal, telling Macbeth, you know, you're not gonna be a man in my eyes if you don't do it, when you just do it, then you're a man. So you've got this contrast, okay? You could even argue if you wanted to be very fancy in your language, you can say that Lady Macbeth, or rather Lady Macduff is a foil to Lady Macbeth's characters. Lady Macduff shows all the flaws and all the mistaken aspects of Lady Macbeth's character. That is context. If you forget everything else, Divine Rife Kings, supernatural women's roles can be used for any essay, okay? So just remember those top three context points. Let's quickly now recap on main themes. When it comes to themes, these are the main things that I would suggest, remembering and committing to memory for tomorrow's exam. The first theme is, of course, ambition, Macbeth. And I'll give you, actually, Lady Macbeth is used, they're both used as cautionary figures about the excessive influence of ambition because ambition corrupts them, it makes them bad, it makes them commit registered, it makes them kill all of these different characters, and ultimately it leads to their downfall. That's the first theme, ambition is a bad thing. The second theme is, of course, the supernatural very closely related to context. However, this theme essentially illustrates the destructive influence of the supernatural, okay? You've got the witches, but also when you're talking about the supernatural, you can also mention, and this ties into a sub theme which is guilt, supernatural hallucinations. There's three supernatural hallucinations. You've got the floating dagger, you've got Banquish Ghost, and finally Lady Macbeth sees the spots of blood on her hands. What does this illustrate? It illustrates that trust in the supernatural too much needs you to do really evil deeds and really evil actions, and that needs to your downfall. That's the second theme. The third theme is that of kingship, the one that everybody is talking about. Remember the central message that you want to talk about if you were to write about the theme of kingship is Shakespeare wants to illustrate what happens to a country when it's run and led by the rightful leader who's been chosen by God under divine right of kings. Scotland is powerful, it wins wars. However, Shakespeare in his message equally illustrates the theme of kingship to illustrate when a country is run by the wrongful leader who has not been chosen, i.e. Macbeth, a country falls into chaos and disorder. And of course Malcolm remains the third king who comes in and restores divine rights of kings and Scotland becomes powerful once more. That's the theme of kingship. Make sure you remember the central message. If kingship comes up tomorrow, you have to talk about in contrast King Duncan and King Macbeth. One is chosen by God, under his reign, Scotland is quite powerful, but his fatal flaw, his haemacia, is he's too gullible. He says there's no art to find the man's instruction in the face. He's too gullible, he believes people too easily. Whilst this is in contrast to Macbeth's character, his fatal flaw has become too ambitious, but also he tries to go above his position in the great chain of being by killing the king. And ultimately he has a disastrous leadership. That's the third theme. Of course, fate and free will is another key theme. Fate means obviously the idea that God has set your path. Okay, so you're born in a certain social position, you live in that social position and you die in that social position. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth were meant to just purely be part of the nobility. However, they tried to go above the fate that God has set them by exercising their free will and killing the king, okay? And even for instance, you can tie it into the female characters. Lady Macbeth tries to exercise her own free will by going against her nature as a woman and trying to attain an amassed power. However, ultimately they are both destroyed and fate is reinforced. That's really, really important when you're talking about the theme of fate and free will. I don't think it's gonna come up, but obviously just have a bit of an awareness. And guys, by the way, in one of my older Macbeth videos, I think it's the one where in the thumbnail I'm wearing an orange top, I literally have like a detailed Macbeth context pack, right? So it's free, download it, literally just read up on the points on fate and free will. And all these other points, to be honest, I've literally outlined that, okay? The next theme is that to do with appearance and the reality. This is most illustrated in the following characters. Number one, Lady Macbeth uses her appearance as a woman in order to misguide and manipulate people. And of course the true reality is that she's a very deceitful individual. Shakespeare is using this theme, but also Lady Macbeth's character, to illustrate that we should never trust appearances. And this is in contrast to a second point could be with King Duncan. So King Duncan trusts appearances too much. In fact, he is too gullible and this is used against him, okay? And of course, finally, Macbeth also manipulates, he learns how to look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it as he's advised by his wife. And he uses appearances in order to try and misguide and betray others, okay? The next theme is that to do with loyalty and betrayal. On the one hand, characters who stay loyal to an extent survive, okay? So Malcolm or rather, McDuff stays loyal to King Duncan and Malcolm and he's the one that comes out victorious. However, characters who were excessively loyal, i.e. King Duncan and Banquo also are betrayed. On the other hand, of course, betrayal is illustrated through the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, okay? So the betray King Duncan, Banquo, Macduff and his family. And of course, this leads to their downfall. Final theme is that to do with masculinity. I think this is a really interesting theme that tends to be kind of neglected and it's directly, of course, time two, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as well as their relationship. What does this theme illustrate? This theme number one is shown through the character of Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth uses Macbeth's masculinity as a way to strategically manipulate him in order to attain power both for herself to become a queen but also to, of course, help Macbeth attain power as King, okay? That's the first point you wanna think about in terms of masculinity. The second point is to do with Lady Macbeth seeing her femininity as a sign of weakness and as something that holds her back in contrast to how she views masculinity as something that's very empowering and enables people to attain their dreams. It enables people like Macbeth to go from being a knight to being a king, okay? So masculinity is also something that Lady Macbeth seems to kind of obsess over because it enables her, she sees femininity as a form of weakness but also masculinity enables her to attain an amass power, okay? So when you're thinking about this theme, you're mainly focusing on Lady Macbeth but equally, your final point could be how masculinity is used against Macbeth in order to not only manipulate him to commit regicide but ultimately it leads to his downfall, okay? That's the final thing. So of course, just to quickly recap, main themes, ambition, supernatural, kingship, fate and free will, appearance and reality, loyalty and betrayal and masculinity. Now before I go into past paper questions and how to write model responses, let's recap on all the major and minor characters. To be honest, don't worry too much about the minor characters. It's just, let's say you get an extract tomorrow and you're like, oh my gosh, who's their next, who's their words, who are they, okay? Just to be clear on those minor characters but you're not gonna get a question on that, okay? So of course, I personally feel tomorrow's question, I'm gonna call it, I think we're gonna get a Lady Macbeth question, okay? That's what I really strongly feel. If not Lady Macbeth question, maybe the theme could be supernatural, okay? Everyone's saying kingships and maybe kingships is gonna come up but I think Lady Macbeth or supernatural. However, just to be good, Macbeth, he's our tragic hero. He is somebody who we really admire at the beginning. He's very brave, he's very valiant. He is very loyal to his king and also very astute on the battlefield. So he's a very talented general, okay? Because under him, Scotland wins all these wars. However, of course, his fatal flaw, his amarsher is his ambition, which leads him to make a series of mistakes and that ultimately leads to his downfall. And of course, Shakespeare uses him as a cautionary figure to warn King James's Jacobean audience not to let ambition take over and also not to subvert divine right of case, not to go against divine right of case. That's the first main character. Of course, you've got Lady Macbeth. She literally inverts his journey, right? So Macbeth starts off really good, ends up bad. Lady Macbeth starts off bad, ends up good, right? Well, arguably good. Because Lady Macbeth on the one hand, she is presented as being completely at the beginning corrupted by ambition because she's really, really greedy and she wants to attain power. However, as the play progresses by act five, scene one, we find that she has dramatically transformed. She's arguably dramatically changed. Arguably, she's the character that most changes in the play because she goes from being incredibly ambitious to being very remorseful, feeling really guilty for all the parts that she played in influencing the deaths of King Duncan and all the other characters that died, okay? So Lady Macbeth is a really interesting character and of course a really interesting figure to write about. The third main character, of course, are the witches, the supernatural, the witches, they are agents of chaos. They cause chaos for chaos to sake, by the way. Okay, so witches like, there's no reason why they cause all of this chaos. They literally just like causing chaos for the sake of causing chaos. That's why you should never trust the supernatural because they just cause what we call wanton chaos. They just go around causing destruction and so on, okay? So of course the witches are presented as these figures and they're very one-dimensional. They never change, right? So the witches just, you know, when we first meet them, when they say Ferris Farms Files Fair, all they indicate is they're gonna reverse the natural order. Of course, they plant the seeds of ambition in Macbeth's mind. And also they attempt to plant the seeds of ambition in Macbeth's mind unsuccessfully. But then by act four, scene one, we can see that they are kind of gleeful when they see something wicked this way. They come and they see Macbeth, right? They're really happy that they've corrupted him and then they disappear, right? They've created all of this chaos, then they go. They're just these agents that just cause wanton chaos, just chaos for the sake of chaos, okay? So that's the witches. Next main character is King Duncan. King Duncan only appears in one act, okay? It's just an act one. And the reason why he's still really important is because he represents the righteous king. He's also Shakespeare's way of sucking up to King James at the time, okay? So King Duncan, arguably, can be seen to symbolize King James. It's just as we're saying, oh, King James, I think he's also gonna be just as virtuous and just as righteous as King Duncan. He rewards his men under him. Scotland is really, really powerful, okay? So that's King Duncan. And of course, his fatal flaw is he trusts appearances too much because he says there's no arts to find the mind's construction in the face. The next main character is of course the character of Macduff. Macduff is interesting because he initially seems to be a very minor character, but then he plays this really significant role towards the end. So of course, the first time we meet Macduff is in act two, scene three. This is when he's the one who knocks in the King's door in Macbeth's castle and discovers he's dead and he calls it a most sacrilegious murder. Macduff, again, is the ideal African man. He's violent, but only in service of his country. He never consults with his wife, unlike Macbeth. But also, when he wins the war, okay, so he's the one that kills Macbeth. He hands the crown back to Malcolm, showing that he respects divine right of kings, okay? So Macduff is a really, really significant character and he's used by Shakespeare to kind of show, this is now the nobility that are watching his play, the people that sit in King James's court. He's trying to teach them, be like Macduff, do not be like Macbeth, okay? So that's Macduff's character. The final character I think that's really important is Banpo, okay? So Banpo's character, he's the one who's Macbeth's best friend. Again, he is the ideal Jacobian man, but the only thing that he doesn't have which Macduff has is he doesn't have a healthy distrust of appearances, okay? Macduff distrusts appearances. He questions, he isn't even there in Macbeth's coronation in Scotland, whilst Banpo doesn't have a healthy distrust of appearances, hence he's not completely the perfect Jacobian man because he trusts others still too much, kind of like King Duncan. But aside from that, unlike Macbeth, he never develops any ambition when the witches try to plant the seeds of ambition in his mind and that's one scene three, he doesn't take it, right? He doesn't bite. He obviously thinks, oh, okay, it's great that my kids are gonna be kings, but I'm gonna sit back and watch how that's gonna happen, okay? That's Banpo. Final character, and this is the character who I don't think is the main character, apart from just one question, if you get kingship, of course he needs to talk about Malcolm. Beyond that, there's nothing else to talk about, okay? So with Malcolm's character, if you were to talk about kingship, number one, remember, of course, he is the key character that restores divine right of kings, okay? So obviously he is King Duncan's son and we sense that he's gonna be the perfect king because unlike his father, he does not trust appearances and reality and he's also very clever and very shrewd. He's able to be a bit perceptive and is able to question, should I trust these people? He even tests McDuff when he comes down to England to help him raise an army. Now, whilst Malcolm is interesting when you're thinking about the theme of kingship, beyond that, there's literally no other reason to use him in your exam, right? So tomorrow, if you get, say, a question of ambition, question of supernatural, a question of anything that's not kingship, don't use Malcolm's character. I personally don't think he's gonna be that interesting or significant as a character, apart from kingship, okay? So obviously with kingship, you've got the three kings, King Duncan, Macbeth, Malcolm, yes, use him for that, but beyond that, I don't really think it's that important of a character, okay? I would say when you're revising tonight, focus more on these characters. Malcolm only comes in when you're considering kingship. Let's briefly talk about the minor characters, not that big deal. Only if you see any of them in the extract that you're giving tomorrow, don't panic. It's actually quite straightforward to know if they are. Ross, Angus, and Lennox are noblemen. And more specifically, actually, we see Ross. Ross is the guy that's basically in charge of giving all the bad news or all the news to everyone. He's the one that goes to Macbeth and says congrats to your theme of Kordall. He's also the one that goes to Macbeth and says, oh, I'm really sorry, your wife and son have died, okay? So he's a noblemen. He is with Angus when he tells Macbeth that he's theme of Kordall. Lennox is at the end of act three. He's speaking to other noblemen and he's basically telling them, oh, really weird unnatural things have happened. We're hearing all of these rumors. On the one hand, you know, there's some rumors that Macbeth, he's the one that's behind all of these killings. But also there's some rumors that these sons who running off, Leonce, Donald Bain, and Malcolm, they might be behind the killings. That's really it with those three noblemen. Of course, you've got Lady Macduff and her son. Again, they appear only once in act four, scene two. Once more, Lady Macduff is just more a contrast to Lady Macbeth's character. She is a foil, right? She is the perfect Jacobean woman. She sits at home, waits for her husband, doesn't know what he's doing, he flees off to Scotland. And of course, her son, you know, her son is like, oh, I'm really sorry, dad, run away, he's a traitor, and then they killed, okay? That's really Lady Macduff and their son. I don't think you're gonna get an extract on those. Donald Bain is Malcolm's brother. He runs off to Ireland. Malcolm runs off to England. Flayonce, Banco's son. He runs off when the murders are sent. Mudra's are sent to kill Banco and Flayonce. You've got the old man who speaks to Ross and basically talks about how everything is against nature still. This is basically after the murder of King Duncan when everyone is basically saying, oh, all these unnatural things are happening. And the final minor characters, don't be alarmed if you see them. You've got the Serwords, right? So you've got old and young Serwords. They're the ones who are basically army generals who are helping Malcolm's army in addition to Macduff. And of course, you've got Satan. Satan, and the way it's written, it's S-E-Y-T-O-N. He is one of the few generals that sticks by Macbeth's side and he's even the one that tells Macbeth that Queen Marlord is dead, right? He is called Satan as a homophone to basically, it's shaped his way of saying, this guy Macbeth is so evil at this stage, only Satanic evil people would be at his side serving him, okay? So that's really it, guys, okay? So when it comes to last, ultra, ultra, ultra, last minute revision, these are just the main things to remember for your exam tomorrow, okay? To forget everything else, these three context points, seven theme points, and of course, the difference between these characters, the major and the minor characters, Malcolm is really not major apart from Kingship, okay? So guys, I'm gonna quickly check the comments, but what I now want to do is basically just dive into how you can plan responses to various questions and I'll show you a model paragraph, one or two model paragraphs. Now, I would suggest, guys, it's less than 24 hours before your exam that takes place tomorrow morning. The best use of your time between now and tomorrow, literally, look at different questions, plan, okay? Just write really nice, glorified essay plans. You do not have time to be writing lots and lots of different essays unless you're planning to sleep for like two hours. Plan different essays, think, okay, if I've got a question and ambition, these are, you know, like the four main points or the three main points I could talk about, here's the quotations, and here's some context that I could mention. If I've got a question, say it on the character of Macbeth, hear the main quotes I'll talk about, hear the main scenes, and that's it, okay? So I would suggest the best use of your time right now between now and your first exam tomorrow, also factoring in sleep and travel to the actual exam hall. Literally, think about all the themes, make essay plans for that, think about the main characters, not the minor characters, make essay plans for that, and you should be fine for tomorrow, okay? 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Let me just, or actually what I'll do is, okay, so guys, gonna dive into this, okay? So this is now a few questions. And as I mentioned, guys, this is all AQA, okay? So I'm basically looking at AQA and how to answer different types of questions if they were to come up. But more than anything, guys, what I want to do, guys, is to show you if you were to tackle the question tomorrow, the best way to prepare between now and tomorrow is writing different essay plans, okay? So guys, I'm gonna ignore the chat for now. And then I'm gonna come back after I've gone over different questions. What I've done, guys, is in addition to just two kingship questions, because everyone's talking about it, I've put all the papers out from 2017, 2018, 19, 20, 21, and 22. So we're gonna review all the exam papers, but more than anything, guys, I will show you how to write model responses, not necessarily model responses, but also model essay plans for these questions, okay? So guys, I'm gonna dive into this question. And this is not a past paper question, by the way, there literally has not been any past paper questions on the theme of kingship. I came across these two questions. Remember, guys, firstly, just to recap, number one, theme of kingship is illustrated and Shakespeare uses the theme of kingship to show what happens when the righteous king is in power versus when the wrongful king is in power, okay? So of course, that's what you're having at the back of your mind. Kingship hasn't come up, so I selected two separate extracts that you can consider that might potentially come up if you were asked about kingship in tomorrow's exam. So let's quickly go over this, and hopefully this is a little bit visible in the actual, in the video, okay? So guys, we're gonna start off with kingship. These are just extracts that I've made up. They haven't come up in the past, okay? We're gonna look at two extracts from kingship. I'll show you guys what you can select from the extract, but also elsewhere, how you can write a really good essay plan, and then we're then gonna review some of the questions from past paper exams, okay? So let's begin by recapping on this extract. This is taken from Act 3, Scene 1. Hopefully it is clear. You always get, so firstly, guys, tomorrow in your exam, in the morning, you're always gonna get an extract, okay? You're always given an extract, and you've got to answer points, questions based on the extract, but then also points from elsewhere in the play. So let's have a look. So you're asked to read and follow the extract from Act 3, Scene 1 of Macbeth, and then answer the question that follows. Obviously, guys, make sure you have your highlights are handy. At this point in the play, Macbeth is arranging to have Banquo killed, okay? So we're gonna read this extract, and I'm gonna kind of explain to you guys what you should consider and how you can answer this. But equally, as I've mentioned, how you can apply the points that I've mentioned with regards to context, themes, and characters from elsewhere in the play. Because you're always given an extract, but then you've got to think about what's going on the extract, but then also what's going on in other parts of the play, okay? Those of you that are paying attention, just ignore what's going on in the comment section because the comments are just going a bit too crazy. Hopefully, mods are now doing, I'll put loads of people's mods. So hopefully some of you guys are kind of doing your work, slowing the comments down. But for those of you that have come here to learn, pay attention to what I'm saying, okay? Anyway, so let's have a look at the extract and then I'm gonna kind of walk you through what your thought process should be in tomorrow's exam, okay? So you've got this extract, Macbeth said. So of course here, Macbeth is arranging to have Banquo killed. Macbeth, bring them before us. So obviously this is the point when he's waiting for the murderers. So exit attendance. To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus. Actually, this came up in last year's exam, but this has to do with fears. Our fears in Banquo stick deep and his royalty of nature reigns that which would be fed to as much he does and to that dauntless temper of his mind. He had the wisdom that Doth guide his valor to act in safety. What is he saying here so far? Macbeth is reflecting that it's pointless him being king and having killed King Duncan if he doesn't completely eliminate the threat to his power that Banquo represents. Because remember that, which has said that Banquo's kids will be kings. So then he says, you know, I'm also extra jealous of Banquo because, you know, I can see that he's going to be a wise king and I just feel very insecure about him. There is none but he who's being, I do fear and under him my genius is rebuked. As it has said, Mac Antony's was by Caesar. He chid the sisters. So here he's thinking about the witches. When first they put the name of King upon me and made them speak to him, then Prophet like to hailed him to father, line to father of kings. Okay, so here's thinking about the witches prophecies saying that Banquo's kids will be kings. Upon my head, the place of fruitless crown and put a baron scepter in my gripe, there's to be wrenched with an unlinear hand, no son of mine succeeding. Guys, as you can see what I'm doing as I'm reading through this, I'm selecting something from the beginning, middle and end, but I'm not like highlighting everything. Okay, you're not going to have enough time to write about everything. You want to maybe pick perhaps two maximum three quotes from the extract, absolute max four, but then you move on to elsewhere in the play. Okay, so and put a baron scepter in my gripe, there's to be wrenched with an unlinear hand, no son of mine succeeding. Basically, so far what Macbeth is thinking about is number one, I'm really threatened by Banquo. His kids are going to be kings and I'm feeling really, really insecure that he's going to take away my power. Number two, I feel like Banquo is way more wise than me and my genius next to him seems, he's a very, very shining light and next to him, I'm kind of not as powerful and I'm still, he makes me very insecure. The next thing is, of course, he thinks about the witches prophecies. Then he carries on. If it be so for Banquo's issue, here when he says Banquo's issued as Banquo's kids, have I filed my mind for them? Gracious Duncan, have I murdered? Put rankles in the vessel of my peace only for them and my eternal jewel? Given to the common enemy of man, to make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings. So now here he can't believe he's really, really, he's working himself up, he's getting really annoyed. He can't believe that Banquo, his children are going to be kings and they might take power away from him. Rather than so, come fate into the list and champion me to the utterance who's there. Enter attendant with two murderers, go to the door and stay there till we call. Okay, so in this extract, which you guys, if you've practiced last year's exam, you should be familiar with, but it was used in the context of fear. In this instance, actually, this extract is also relevant when it comes to the idea of kingship, okay? Because you're asking the question, starting with this extract, explain how far you think Shakespeare presents the idea of kingship, right? About how Shakespeare presents kingship in the extract and how Shakespeare presents kingship in the rest of the play. Now guys, as I mentioned, what I'm gonna show you is my thought process if I were answering this question and kind of like, I guess, a glorified essay plan. Tomorrow in tomorrow's exam, guys, I will suggest in terms of your actual essay, right? This is how grade nine essay would look like. You begin with your introduction, your thesis statement. What's a thesis statement? A thesis statement is basically what is Shakespeare's message to his audience as a playwright, but his message, how is that specifically related to the theme of kingship? Your thesis statement is as follows. Shakespeare shows kingship and he uses the reign of King Duncan to illustrate how powerful a country is under the right leader, okay? So in your thesis statement, you wanna talk about King Duncan is used to illustrate how powerful a country is under the right leader whilst Macbeth illustrates how under the wrongful leader, chaos ensues in Scotland, okay? That's your thesis statement. When it comes to the question itself, how is the idea of kingship illustrated? We can already see in this extract that Macbeth, all he is focused on is maintaining and keeping his power. Unlike King Duncan, who is a righteous and general leader, he constantly thinks about how he can empower his men. Macbeth is only obsessed about how he can maintain and keep his power, okay? That's what goes into your thesis statement. However, in your ideal model essay, you wanna have at least two paragraphs from the extract. I would suggest going for a pill paragraph structure relating to how is kingship shown, how is kingship illustrated in the extract, okay? So I would suggest maybe taking something from the beginning, right? So for example, here we've got our fears in Banquo, but also I would suggest maybe this, so I'll probably tie these two together, okay? So I've mentioned when he says our fears in Banquo, here we can see that Macbeth is unable to handle his power as a king because he only focuses on amassing or selfishly keeping power, right? And then I've also probably tied this, so this initial point with our fears in Banquo, I've also tied this into these two points. What would I also talk about in terms of I need to make sure I mention technique, okay? So not only am I gonna talk about how kingship is illustrated Macbeth, he's unable to handle his power as a king, but also this is illustrated through these two metaphors, so the metaphor here, fruitless crown, but also the metaphor baron scepter. So these two metaphors are used by Shakespeare to illustrate what happens contextually when divine right of kings is subverted, okay? So going back to this, guys, as you can see, what have I started by doing? Firstly, I've started off my essay plan by planning what I'm gonna talk about in my introduction, what Shakespeare's message will not consider the theme of kingship, okay? So when it comes to this question, guys, I'm gonna just shift this phone a little bit higher so that hopefully you can see the whole page. I don't have to shift it too much, but anyway, when it comes to the theme of kingship, the first thing I'll talk about is in Shakespeare's, what is Shakespeare's message? The idea that under the wrongful king, a country descends into chaos, but under the rightful king, a country is quite powerful. And this extract where Macbeth is considering his spares in Banquo, this is illustrating what happens when the wrongful leader is in charge and I'll talk about context, how Macbeth is illustrating when divine right is destroyed or subverted, when the wrongful king is in power, all they will do is cause chaos in places like Scotland, purely because they will be selfishly focused on keeping their power and holding their power. That's the first thing I'll talk about, right? And I'll talk about maybe at a quote, fears in Banquo at the beginning, but also I think these two metaphors to technique, okay? My A02, this is really important. Then my second point, my two paragraphs from the extract, okay? So you start with the introduction, two paragraphs from the extract, I'll probably talk about the end point here in the extract. And here we can see Macbeth is becoming more frenzied as he's thinking about how Banquo, his kids will be kings, okay? So I'm gonna zoom in just a little bit here, hopefully it's gonna be a little bit clearer. Guys, this is AQA, okay? Just to be clear, this is AQA, we're looking at AQA, okay? Anyway, Shakespeare uses repetition here when Macbeth is becoming more frenzied, more angry, he's like, I can't believe Banquo's gonna be king, I can't believe all my hard work is gonna go to waste because his sons are gonna take over and I don't have any children that are gonna succeed, okay? Once more, what this is illustrating is, Macbeth is unable to handle the power that comes with being a king. And of course, what I'll probably tie this into as well in terms of context is, we can see here that obviously this was performed to King James's court, so I tied this into that context point, but what this is illustrating is, when the wrongful king is in power, I keep on saying the wrongful king because that's what you wanna talk about with the theme of kingship, they are only selfishly focused on maintaining and keeping the power, okay? So if I were to write about this and use this extract, let's start off with these two points, but then of course, going back to my plan, I need to also have my paragraphs from elsewhere in the play. So my two paragraphs from elsewhere, I hope this isn't too heavily annotated, guys. Start off with my introduction to my thesis statement. My two paragraphs related to the extract, I've made sure I've tied it into at least two context points. The first context point relating to the divine right, of King's second context point relating to how this play was performed to King James's court, it's a warning Macbeth is used as a cautionary figure when it comes to not trusting the supernatural but also not trying to go above your position in the great chain of being. However, once I'm done with that, I now need to go to my paragraphs from elsewhere in the play. I'm gonna add two paragraphs. What would I tie it into when I'm considering kingship? This is now going back to my original plan, which I've mentioned in my kingship essay, okay? So I'm gonna try and put these two extra points a little bit down here, okay? What would be my two elsewhere points? My elsewhere point would be King Duncan. A juxtapose Macbeth's increasing paranoia that's shown here, okay? So we can see here in this, let me just move this. Okay, so guys, my elsewhere point would be related to how King Duncan, I would juxtapose how Macbeth here is really, really paranoid, very, very selfishly focused on keeping this power, but King Duncan, in contrast, he generously rewards his men, unlike Macbeth, King Macbeth, who's like, okay, who can I block from having more power? King Duncan, my elsewhere point, will be related to how King Duncan basically firstly rewards Macbeth. He calls him Worthy Cousin, Value and Gentleman, but also he's so, so humble that he says, you know, I'm so sorry I didn't promote you the sin of my ingratitude weighs heavily on me. And of course, my third point from elsewhere in the text and in the play, illustrates the idea of kingship because King Duncan is presented as a righteous leader. He is very, very giving. And of course, what Shakespeare is obviously trying to show King James is how he maintains his power is by also generously rewarding his men, okay? Now, fourth and final point, I'm not gonna go into a model response for this only because this extract did come up last year. I don't wanna go over that. I do wanna maybe show you guys some points that you can raise with this other kingship question. Anyway, my other elsewhere point I would talk about is obviously Malcolm. And this is why this is the only time to be honest, I think Malcolm is gonna be a really interesting character to talk about. Beyond that, I don't really think you're gonna find yourself talking about Malcolm unless you have a question on the theme of kingship. Of course, the main quotation that Malcolm uses or states when he is showing that he's not as gullible as his father is when he says, modest, wisdom, plaques me from over credulous haste, right? So modest wisdom and over credulous haste. What does this illustrate when you think about the theme of kingship? He illustrates the theme of kingship because number one, he restores divine right of kings. He restores divine order. But number two, he is also presented as the perfect king because he will not be as gullible as King Duncan as King Duncan given he does not trust appearances, okay? So those are the four points I would talk about. So going back to my original essay plan, okay? I'll start off with my introduction, talking about in my thesis statement how kingship is presented. My two paragraphs from the extract, I've made it clear what I'm gonna talk about in the extract, okay? I'm gonna talk about how Macbeth unable to handle power. Also, Macbeth, he's very selfish, he holds his power. Those are my two paragraphs from the extract, but then I also have to consider two paragraphs from the play because that's one of the things that you're asked to talk about in this question. So my two paragraphs from the play would be juxtaposing Macbeth with King Duncan and of course also juxtaposing King Duncan with his own son who is shown to be very, very dubious. He doesn't trust appearances very easily, okay? So those are the points and of course these are the two context points I would include to be honest guys, if you write at least two context points you are absolutely covered in tomorrow's exam, right? So try and aim to write at least one context point maximum two. If you do that and maybe do it in your introduction or rather in your extract written to the extract you are covered, you've got the context points out of the way and you're covered for your AO3, which is context, okay? So as I mentioned guys, this, let me just move this into view a little bit. So hopefully it's a little bit clearer. Hopefully guys, hopefully you can see what I'm writing. However, as I mentioned, I want us, can you not see the, guys, can you see the extract a little bit more? Hopefully you can. Anyway, guys, gonna move on to another kingship question, okay? And I wonder why you can't see the, I'm just looking at the now we can't, okay? So guys, I'm just looking at the comments that seem to have slowed down. Well done moderators, whoever's doing the mod job. Well done, well done, well done. Right, so guys, if I zoom in a little bit more now I can see the comments way better. Guys, is it less blurry? Well done by the way, mods. Comments have slowed down a little bit, so well done. So guys, should I move on still blurry? It should not be blurry. Or actually guys, what I might do is, I might shift this around. Is this any better guys? I don't know, but I feel like this one is not gonna, no one's gonna actually see it. Is this any better? No. Okay, no, should I check it and change it back? No, okay, so I'm gonna shift it back to this, okay? Flip it back, okay, so I'm gonna flip it back. Right, so guys, hopefully it's less blurry now. Let me know, go back. Okay, so I'm back guys, back, back, back, back. Right, so guys, final kingship. Or guys, should I move on from kingship? Do you guys kinda get, do you kinda get what point you can talk about with kingship? Okay, I'm gonna move on from kingship because I guess you guys get it. Let's look now at past paper questions that appeared from 2017 to 2022. What can you write about? And guys, as I mentioned, this is your essay structure. Between now, okay, so Macbeth, exam, tomorrow. Between now and tomorrow, guys, this is the best use of your time. I'm talking to AQA guys because I know there's a lot of people who are asking at Excel, I'm doing AQA tonight, okay? Guys, best thing you can do between now and tomorrow, look at all the past paper questions, all of the themes and then consider how you could write plans relating to this, okay? So guys, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go over 2017 to 2022, then I'll see if people still want me to go over kingship, gonna go back to this, okay? So guys, when it comes to how to structure your essays, and guys, gonna go over kingship. Okay, so let's quickly go over essay plan. How should you structure your essays? Okay, and this is how I'm gonna structure the essays when I'm looking at past paper questions. When you're writing your essay tomorrow, guys, be clear on what Shakespeare's message is in your introductory thesis statement, okay? What message is Shakespeare's trying to convey? That's what goes into your introduction, but this is in connection to the question that comes up, right? So for instance, in this case, ambition, this is the key words, so you need to consider that. Let's say for instance, if you have a supernatural question, what is Shakespeare's thesis statement, what he's trying to convey? Once you talk about that in your opening thesis statement, you say, okay, these are the characters I'm gonna talk about in relation to this question. You should go for two paragraphs. I would suggest I like my pure paragraph structure, point evidence explanation link, in relation to the extract. And you're opening two pure paragraphs, guys, I'm gonna go back to the exam, okay? But in relation to your extract, try to get your context points out of the way. As I mentioned, there's three main context points which I talked about in the beginning of this slide. You've got divine right of king, supernatural, as well as women's roles, right? So get that out of the way and you're opening two paragraphs where you are referring to the extract, okay? Then perfect essay, you then think about what's going on elsewhere in the place. These are, you're now two additional paragraphs, but this is elsewhere. And here, you think about your memorized quotes. This is where you add your memorized quotes and any additional context that's relevant or theme if it's a character question, before you finish off with your conclusion. Your conclusion is just another way of restating your thesis statement. What are Shakespeare shown in connection to the question, okay? So guys, mods, the chat is getting a little bit crazy. Whoever I've made mod, just block, block, block, block, okay, or silence, whatever, okay? So guys, gonna go back to these extracts and show you. So let me just have a look. Okay, so the comments have slowed down a little bit. Macbeth comes with paper one. Yes, Macbeth is paper one. Guys, gonna go over this, show you guys what you can write about in connection to this extract if you've got an ambition question, but also quotations from elsewhere in the play. And then I can see Supernatural's been asked a few times. Gonna do Supernatural afterwards. I don't think I have a Supernatural question. I don't think Supernatural did come up at any stage. Ooh, I don't know why Room Engineer is here. That shouldn't be there. Anyway, let me just check if there's actually a Supernatural question. So I don't think this is a Supernatural question. This is Macbeth as a violent character. I don't think this is Lady Macbeth. Okay, so guys, I'm gonna just give you like an essay plan on the Supernatural afterwards, okay? Because I don't think he came up or the Supernatural came up. Yep, so this is relationship and then Macbeth's fears. So guys, gonna go over ambition because I think ambition is a really important theme to be very, very familiar with. And afterwards, I'll show you guys how you can write responses, model responses for Supernatural, but also some of these other questions, okay? And more than anything, guys, to be honest between now and tomorrow, the best way to prepare for this exam, just look at different questions, look at different themes, and then just plan detailed essay plans. What quotations would you go for and what context would you mention, okay? Now guys, I'm going back to this. If I were, okay, so Supernatural, Supernatural. Okay, guys, Supernatural is gonna come off to ambition. Okay, so Supernatural gonna come off to ambition. Yes, the comments aren't serious, guys. Mods, literally, do you work, block? Do you work, block, okay? So guys, gonna go into this. How do you plan this question? So as I mentioned, guys, always have your highlighter handy. How would you go about answering this question, but also more specifically, guys, to be honest, how could you write about ambition, okay? So this extract, read the following from Act 1, Scene 5. At this point in the play, Lady Macbeth is speaking. She's just read Macbeth's letter about meeting the three witches, okay? So this is basically Lady Macbeth's really, really famous speech. Again, guys, I'm just gonna read it really quickly, but then show you guys if you were to write about the theme of ambition. These are the main points from the extract we were talking about, but also from elsewhere in the play, okay? So Lady Macbeth says, Glamist thou art and chordal, and shalt be what thou promise, yea, I do fear thy nature is to fall of the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way. She's basically saying that Macbeth is too kind, he's too loyal, he's too noble to betray the king. Thou wouldst be great art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly, thou wouldst totally, wouldst not play false, yet would strongly win. Basically what she's basically saying here is, if he only had the guts to want power enough, he would attain it, but she fears that he doesn't have it in him to betray the king. Thou wouldst have great glamist, that witch cries, thou must do if thou have it, and that which rather thou dost spare do, then wishes should be undone. How thee hither? So now here she's basically saying, Macbeth, hurry up, come, I've read your letter, telling me about the witches, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear and chastise the size with the valour of my tongue that impedes thee from the golden round which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem to have thee crowned with full. And this extract is basically Lady Macbeth essentially saying after reading the witch's prophecies or reading a letter for Macbeth about the witch's prophecies, she's basically saying and she's scheming on how, so she's scheming on how she can manipulate and persuade Macbeth to kill the king, okay? And of course, going back to this question, the question asks, how does Shakespeare present ambition in Macbeth? So how does Shakespeare present ambition in the speech, the extract, and then how he presents ambition in the play as a whole? So of course, knowing the essay structure and the essay plan I'm gonna follow, where I've got my introduction, my two points from the extract, two points from elsewhere before I conclude, I'm now gonna look for two points from here and then two points from elsewhere if I was to write about the theme of ambition. Remember your thesis statement when you're considering the theme of ambition is Shakespeare wishes to illustrate how ambition is a corrupting influence on all the characters. Of course, Lady Macbeth is already, she is completely corrupted by ambition or with ambition. Now, following my essay plan, right? So firstly, what I would do is consider two points from the extract and I'd also consider how I could tie it into context, okay? So the first point I probably will talk about is how she worries that Macbeth's nature is too full of the milk of human kindness, this is the metaphor. This is technique, what does this illustrate? This illustrates that Lady Macbeth is worried that Macbeth is too loyal to Duncan. And of course, this ties into the context of divine right of case, right? What this illustrates is Lady Macbeth, her ambition firstly, makes her a completely corrupt character. It has also made her a very callous, which means evil and cruel character who simply wants to attain power. And the context I would tie this into is how she illustrates that she wants to go against divine right of case. The next point I would talk about and this ties into how many Jacobians saw her as the fourth witch is when she says she wants to chastise with the valour of my tongue and influence him into killing the king, okay? So she refers to the metaphysical aid. And here, in terms of technique, so and chastise with the valour of my tongue. Here, I was looking if there's any Iron Bit pentameter but what this is still illustrating is firstly, she speaks using blank verse, not Iron Bit pentameter, blank verse is just when you speak using kind of some rhymes and stuff, but there's no particular rhyme scheme, okay? So this is technique. However, what does this illustrate? It illustrates and this is what led her to be seen as the fourth witch. Lady Macbeth is ambitious as she wants to attain power. And she wants to attain power by manipulating her husband. And this illustrates what Jacobians saw her, which is they called her the fourth witch as she was so ambitious that she was willing to manipulate her husband in order to become queen and for him to become king, okay? Obviously this illustrates that she was seen as the fourth witch because it was unnatural for women at the time to be ambitious, to want to have more power and more specifically to even want to use their husbands in order to attain more power. If I'm writing about the theme of ambition, of course, elsewhere in the play when now I'm thinking about my other points from elsewhere, I would talk about Macbeth and his vaulting ambition in his soliloquy. So this is his first soliloquy when he's considering whether he should be ambitious or not. And he's considering and weighing up whether he should kill the king or not to kill the king because he talks about his vaulting ambition that overlaps itself and falls on the other. Of course here, again, what this illustrates is ambition is corrupting because the witches have planted the seeds of ambition in his mind. Yet he wonders whether he can handle the ambition he has to become king, okay? That's my first elsewhere in the play point. The second elsewhere in the play point is I would probably contrast his ambition with Banquo's lack of ambition. Banquo is shown, the witches try to plant the seeds of ambition in his mind. However, he refuses to trust what he calls the instruments of darkness. And even when Macbeth becomes really powerful, he says that he fears, he considers how Macbeth has it now, king, Hodor Glamis, but he says our fear, our nature, our fear, he fears that Macbeth has done something in order to become powerful. I fear that play is most spowly for it, okay? So if I'm writing about ambition, the three main things I'll talk about is how Lady Macbeth is presented as being quite ambitious. She's so ambitious that she wishes to go even against her nature as a woman to become powerful. Then my elsewhere points will be relating to how Macbeth, he considers his vaulting ambition, he realizes he can't handle the power that comes with being ambitious and being a king. And of course Banquo, who never develops the ambition and he is shown as the ideal Jacobian man, okay? He never develops ambition. And as a result, he doesn't become plagued by any of the fears and paranoia that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth face, okay? Now guys, I know that lots of you are really, really keen on me talking about supernatural and what you could talk about if you had a supernatural question. Now, I hadn't actually prepared past people question on the supernatural, but guys, I'm gonna show you for those of you that want to go over the theme of the supernatural and how you can write, you know, what you can write about and what points you can talk about when it comes to supernatural, I will walk you through all the points you can mention if you're talking about the theme of the supernatural, okay? Now, as I mentioned, in terms of your thesis statement, remember that Shakespeare wants to impart the following knowledge. Shakespeare uses Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to warn against the corrupting influence of the supernatural, which inevitably leads to their downfall. This is your thesis statement, what you could talk about if you were to write about the theme of the supernatural. Now, in terms of the points that you could talk about and the quotations that illustrate the theme of the supernatural, of course, your first, the first major characters to talk about when you think about the supernatural is the witches. The witches illustrates that they are supernatural agents of chaos who cause wanton unnecessary destruction. And this is illustrated at the beginning in Act 21 when they say, fair is foul and foul is fair, they want to reverse the natural order. But of course, also when they tell Macbeth, and this is now what sets the world motion, the supernatural causes destruction, but also they cause the natural order in Skate of Scotland to start falling apart when they tell Macbeth, hail Macbeth that shalt be king hereafter, okay? Also equally, the witches who are supernatural agents of chaos realize with glee and with happiness that they have successfully manipulated Macbeth in Act four, scene one, when they recognize that something wicked this way comes. Now, in terms of the supernatural, and if you're talking about the witches, of course, in terms of context, so this is a glorified essay plan. What do you talk about in terms of context? You talk about how the supernatural were mistrusted or distrusted by Jacobians and even King James, the first of England wrote a book called Demonology to warn against the corrupting influence of the supernatural. That's the first point to talk about when it comes to, if you were to write about the supernatural, make sure you have a paragraph that's dedicated to the witches. They are supernatural agents of chaos, they cause wanton unnecessary cruelty and the quotations that you're relating the witches to, of course, we don't have the extracts, you've got an extract, but then these are the elsewhere points you're considering. Ferris Fowle, hail Macbeth, something wicked this way comes. That's the witches, but of course, when you're thinking about the supernatural and the corrupting influence, you certainly want to talk about Lady Macbeth. And even actually another thing is to do with a supernatural, actually before you've been going to Lady Macbeth, the supernatural hallucinations that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth experience, okay? So supernatural hallucinations are used, so supernatural hallucinations are used to symbolize the guilt that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth experience as a result of violating the great chain of being. And of course, I would say, if you are quoting relating to the supernatural hallucinations, of course, to remember when Macbeth asks, is this a dagger? Which I see before me, this rhetorical question. He has this first supernatural hallucinations feeling really guilty about killing the king. Of course, also when he sees Banquo as ghost, he tells the ghost to never shake thy gory locks at me. And also Lady Macbeth has the third and final supernatural hallucination, which requires out, damned, spot. Now, when writing about these supernatural hallucinations, you can make this a theme related point. Supernatural hallucinations represent the theme of guilt. They're used to illustrate what happens to characters who go against divine right of kings. They are plagued by guilt because firstly, they have betrayed the king by committing regicide. And they are beyond redemption. God will never forgive them. That's the second point when you're writing about the supernatural to make. Okay, guys, as I mentioned, supernatural, one of the themes that could come up. I don't have an extra to go with it, but these are the three main points you can consider if you're writing about the supernatural. The final point, of course, is Lady Macbeth and how she was classified as the fourth witch, okay? So Lady Macbeth, I'll make this final point, probably a Lady Macbeth related question or related response. What does Lady Macbeth illustrate? Lady Macbeth illustrates the corrupting influence of the supernatural. So she calls on supernatural forces to change or remove her gender, but also she uses her power and her power of manipulation to manipulate Macbeth. Okay, and the quotations I'll probably talk about if I were writing about Lady Macbeth and how she is used to illustrate the supernatural as a theme is, of course, when she says to the spirits, un-sex me, she also manipulates Macbeth, she tells him, she uses his masculinity against him. Also actually to be honest, when she can say, I may pour my spirits in thine ear and also when she tells him, when you durst do it, then you were a man. So durst, do it. Once more, what does this illustrate? Lady Macbeth, firstly, she's been completely corrupted by the influence of supernatural. She calls on supernatural forces to change her gender, but also she uses her power as a woman to manipulate Macbeth. And this led, so now this is a context point, this led many Jacobians to call her the fourth witch. So guys, this is for those of you who were basically saying, okay, if I were to write about the supernatural as a theme, what could I talk about? And as I mentioned guys, between now and your exam tomorrow, hopefully you guys can see what's going on here. I'm going to block this guy one moment. Right, so guys, hopefully the kind of illustrates what you guys can talk about if you were writing about the theme of the supernatural. And guys, I think when I do my live next time, I'm literally going to block comments because this is just crazy, okay? So guys, kingship, I have talked about kingship and I have mentioned kingship at the beginning, okay? So guys, Macduff, who, okay, so Macduff, guys, beyond this, okay, so I can see Macduff is being mentioned a few times. Guys, I'm going to block this guy, so I'm going to remove him. King Duncan or, okay, so guys, let's see, which is, essay on the witches, guys, essay on the witches literally use these points, right? If there's essay on the witches, basically, the main points to talk about is obviously, firstly, they plant the seeds of ambition in Macbeth's mind. Secondly, they lead Macbeth to become quite corrupt. Number three, they cause wanton chaos. They cause chaos for chaos's sake, okay? Banquo, Porter, critical theories, because critical theories is not necessary at a GCSE level. Like, critical theories is a level, guys, okay? Lady Macduff, no, okay? Guys, I'm just looking at the time. I do have a time limit, but guys, okay, I'm going to kind of, I'm going to have to cut this short, okay, but what I'm going to do, guys, is I'm going to quickly go back to the board and recap on what I have covered so far, okay? Because this chart is going too crazy, okay? So I'm going to block this guy. So guys, I'm going to go back to the board, okay? And I'll then answer any questions, any final questions you have if you were talking about Banquo, okay? So Banquo Macduff, Banquo Macduff. Okay, guys, kingship, look at the kingship essay, okay? I'm going to quickly recap. If you're talking about different characters, I'm going to go back to the board and show you guys what you can talk about if you're talking about the different characters, because I can see that characters is one of the things that you guys want to go over, okay? So Macduff, Banquo, okay? So let me just put this back on the board, okay? Because this is not working. And guys, sorry for those of you who actually are taking this live seriously, because I don't know, I didn't realize, I thought that was literally going to be, yes. What I'm going to do, guys, final, final words. I'm going to talk to you guys, I'm going to talk you guys through what you can talk about if, okay, so we're going to go back to the board, okay? And let me just readjust this, guys, for those of you that were super serious, I'm so sorry this chat just got totally out of control. Guys, I'm going to be doing a live on Inspector Calls, but I'm going to have like a proper mod, okay? So that for those of you who are like, I really, really want to learn something, you can actually learn, because this is just crazy. Okay, so guys, we're going to quickly recap before I finish and actually, guys, what I'm going to do is I'm going to kind of tell you off the top of my head what you can talk about if you're mentioning any of the main characters, okay? So guys, okay, so I'm going to block these guys. So let me block a few people, GCSE, right, let me just block some people. Guys, for those of you that are serious, really, really sorry about the chat, it's going totally out of control. I thought there was literally going to be 30 people. Next live, I'm going to have some Silent Snipers blocking, blocking, blocking, okay? So blocker, blocker, blocker, next live, okay? A bunch of you guys are going to get blocked. Anyway, guys, final, final words, okay? Because comments are going crazy. So I think the main thing that you guys were mentioning, so just let's go back to the board, okay? Because the comments are going too crazy. And also I'm kind of keeping an eye on time because I'm going to have to finish kind of sharpish in 10 minutes, okay? This is for those of you guys who are keen to go over what you can talk about if you are writing about Banquo's character and McDuff's character. Because I've seen there's a few of you guys who are like, what can I write about if I talk about Banquo? Or what can I write about if I talk about McDuff? Let's start off with McDuff, okay? So McDuff's character is interesting in the sense that number one, and I've mentioned this in the beginning of my life, right? So when I finish this live, you can just look at the start of the live. Number one when it comes to McDuff's character, he is represented as the ideal Jacobean man, okay? If you're writing about McDuff's character, make sure you remember that he is the ideal Jacobean man. What does that mean? Number one, the first quotation you're tying in to McDuff's character is he reveals a respect for divine right of kings. He is the first person that discovers King Duncan's dead body and he calls it, quote number one, a most sacrilegious murder. What do you tie this into? You tie it into context related to divine right of kings. McDuff is a perfect Jacobean man because he respected divine right of kings. That is your first point. That's the context you're tying it into and that's the quotation, most sacrilegious murder. The second quotation relating to McDuff is we can see that he is very loyal to the king. He's also loyal to Malcolm and he flees and he's able to help Malcolm raise an army. Firstly, we can see his loyalty illustrated and obviously this ties into the theme of loyalty. When he goes to Malcolm in England and he says Scotland, he describes Scotland as bleed, bleed, poor country. What does this illustrate? This illustrates again that McDuff is the perfect Jacobean man because he is loyal to his country but also he is loyal to his king and his king's son, Malcolm. That's the second point you talk about McDuff's character. The third point about McDuff's character is we can see that he helps Malcolm restore order in Scotland. So when it comes to McDuff's character towards the end, when he kills Macbeth, right? So when he tells Macbeth to spare thy charm, he also plays a pivotal role, a very important role in restoring divine right of kings. And of course, we can also see that he is an agent that goes against the witches. So those are the three points that you can talk about with McDuff's character. Remember the following quotation. Most are religious murder, bleed, bleed, poor country. And also the final one, which is to do with how he restores order. When he tells Macbeth to spare thy charm, okay? He shows that obviously he is showing Macbeth that he should never trust in the supernatural. Of course, you can also tie that to supernatural. That is McDuff's character and the points to remember in the quotations is in context to consider when you're writing about his character. Let's now consider the character of Banquo, okay? And then I'm going to look at the comments, but guys, I'll be really honest. I need to wrap up this thing and then head out. So let's talk about Banquo's character. Banquo's character, so this is like a really, really good grade nine point that you can mention. Banquo's character is used to juxtapose and contrast Macbeth. He's what we would call a foil to Macbeth. He is used by Shakespeare to illustrate Macbeth's flaws as a character. What does he illustrate? Number one, he meets the witches with Macbeth, okay? And the first quotation that illustrates this is when he's talking about the instruments of darkness tell us truths, right? What does this illustrate and how is he used to contrast and how is he used as a foil to Macbeth's character? Banquo's uses a foil to Macbeth's character as he illustrates distrust of the supernatural, okay? And of course, here you're making a clear connection to the supernatural. Much like King James, Banquo never trusts the witches. He never trusts their intention. He even says, they're back to the quotation, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, only to betray us, okay? So just the instruments of darkness. And again, when you think about Banquo's character, number one, he illustrates a healthy distrust in the supernatural, which juxtaposes and contrasts him to Macbeth as a character. That's point number one. Point number two, Banquo is an interesting character because we can start to see, especially by act three, that he begins to doubt appearances. He begins to wonder whether Macbeth has done something to amass power because in act three, scene one, he says, thou hast it now, King Cordo Glamis, and I fear that play is most fouled for it. Just remember, thou hast it now, listing King Cordo Glamis. What does this illustrate in terms of him questioning appearances, okay? So you can tie his character to the theme of appearances and reality. We can see here that Banquo begins to realize but only too slowly that he cannot completely trust the appearance, the outward appearance of Macbeth as well as his wife, Lady Macbeth, okay? That's the second point you can mention with Banquo's character, however he doesn't act on it, hence he is betrayed. Obviously, the final third quotation actually, I think that would be really interesting if you're writing about Banquo's character, is his reappearance as a ghost. His reappearance as a ghost is important and powerful in illustrating to Macbeth that he's not the rightful king and of course, also foreshadowing that Macbeth, he's gonna be usurped from power, okay? So also I would say your third quotation relating to Banquo's character, think about him as a ghost and also think about how he is a horrible reminder to Macbeth of the fact that he's still going to be usurped. Of course here, the quotations you're using is what Macbeth says towards the ghost but it's still illustrating Banquo, his power as a character and making Macbeth realize that he's always gonna be usurped as a wrongful king because Macbeth tells him, never shake thy gory locks at me, okay? So that will be the third and final point to consider if you're writing about Banquo's character, okay? So those are the points for Macduff, those are the points for Banquo's character and as I mentioned guys, literally make sure you make at least one context point tomorrow in tomorrow's exam, at least two if you can. Obviously these are the themes to remember and as I'm done, right, which I can't short, try if you can, especially for the themes as well as characters, try to maybe consider like little essay plans, right? Between now and your exam tomorrow, make brief essay plans, right? With some quotations, contexts and so on, okay? But that's really it when it comes to Macduff and Banquo's character, I've literally talked about Macbeth at length, I've talked about Lady Macbeth and I've also talked to you guys through the supernatural. So what I'm gonna do, again, is I'm gonna look at the comments. The comments are going crazy, so I'll be really honest, I might just end this live and next week guys, I'm gonna be doing a live for inspector calls but I'm getting moderators this time round. I'm getting an actual moderator, probably the same person that I use for TikTok and it's gonna be block a block a block, right? People are gonna start getting blocked, blocked, blocked off these lives, yeah? So all of those guys who are like spamming and stuff, it's gonna be block a block a block, okay? Guys, don't worry about Ross, these are the minor characters, okay? These guys are the minor characters, don't worry about it, okay? So by the way guys, as I mentioned, I'm only mentioning these minor characters in case in tomorrow's extract, if these minor characters come up, don't sweat it, okay? Like you might see them in the extract but don't worry, you don't have to talk about them. Ross Angus Linnert, the noble man, Ross is the one that tells Macbeth and he's the same of portal, but also he's the one that tells Macduff that his family's been killed. Angus and Linnert's just random noble men, Lady Macduff and her son, they're the ones that are killed. Donald Bing is the brother of Malcolm, he runs off to Ireland. Blayons is Banquish's son, he's the one that escaped. You've got the old man, the old man talks to Ross, basically he says all these unnatural things are happening. And of course you've got Satan, he's one of the few generals that stays by Macbeth's side, even after everyone leaves him and realizes that he's an evil guy. And of course Selvett, he's one of the generals that fights in the army, this is Malcolm's side against Macbeth. Guys, I've only mentioned these minor characters just so you're not thrown if you see them mentioned in the actual extract tomorrow, but you're not gonna get a question on them, right? You might get a question which features them in the extract, but of course it's gonna be still related to the main characters or perhaps one of the themes. Okay, so don't worry too much about that, okay? Let's see if there's any additional questions. Right, so should we do, let's see. Guys, exam practice is literally essay plans, essay plans, essay plans, essay plans. So guys, could this be, okay, so the comments again are going, could this be, I'm looking at the previous question. Sorry, this is Serenade, could this be for, okay Serenade if you can put your question again. Guys, the comments are going crazy. Guys, for those of you that actually came on to this live to revise, I'm so sorry about these crazy comments, but next week when I do inspector calls, block a block a block, block a block a block a block. For those of you guys that are serious and want to actually learn, you're gonna obviously learn. The rest of you guys who are not serious, block a block block block block, okay? So guys, gonna end today's live. And could this be, okay, hang on, hang on, hang on. Serenade, repeat that question. I'm trying to keep, okay, so could this be when hide your fires? Okay, I can't see the question. Guys, can you maybe put the question, for those of you that actually had serious questions, I'm gonna end this live. Can you put it in the actual comments and then I'm gonna try my best to respond to the question. Guys, kingship, look at the kingship video that I did, okay? And inspector calls is gonna be next week. Inspector calls next week, inspector calls next week, okay? Probably on Tuesday late-ish, probably like maybe nine. But guys, next week, for those of you who actually came to learn, there's gonna be some mods and the mods are gonna literally start blocking people. So, so sorry guys, for those of you that were actually trying to ask me questions. I'm so sorry, I literally can't, the comments are just going crazy. So, guys, thank you so much for joining in. I'm so sorry. I just wanna say I'm so sorry for those of you that actually were really serious. Next week, inspector calls and there's gonna be some silent snipers, moderators who are gonna be blocking people, okay? I do have some moderators on TikTok and that space is so good in terms of the comments. I just didn't anticipate there's gonna be this many people on the live, okay? So, I did not expect so many people. But guys, I hope this helps. Please, between now and tomorrow, just come up with essay plans and so on. Christmas Carol predictions, I'll let you release a video with Mr. Sally's last week. So, it's there, okay? Guys, heading out, heading out, heading out. I've gotta go, I've gotta go. Thanks for those of you that joined in for serious actual learning. Next week, inspector calls and there's gonna be some silent snipers who are blocking, blocking, blocking people, okay? Guys, ending. Love you all. Take care. For those of you that have any additional questions, when the live is up, just put it in the comments or maybe put the comment in one of the other videos, right? So, just ask your questions. The ones that I wasn't able to get around to. Ask those questions and I'll try my best to respond to them before tomorrow.