Macbeth – Knowledge Organiser – Good to Know
Description: Macbeth Knowledge Organiser Good to Know Context The Plot ELECT BBC Bitesize link The real Macbeth and the Holinshead Chronicles Jacobean politics The Gunpowder Plot and The Gowrie Conspiracy. King James I of England (VI of Scotland)
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slide1. Macbeth – Knowledge Organiser – Good to Know Context The Plot ELECT BBC Bitesize link The real Macbeth and the Holinshead Chronicles
Jacobean politics – The Gunpowder Plot and The Gowrie Conspiracy.
King James I of England (VI of Scotland)
Witchcraft
The Divine Right of Kings.
The Great Chain of Being.<br>
slide2. Macbeth – Knowledge Organiser - Quotes Themes Characters Macbeth – the protagonist. He transforms from a loyal warrior to a tyrannical king.
“Oh, full of scorpions is my mind dear wife”
Lady Macbeth – Macbeth’s wife. She is a strong and ambitious woman who goes against expectations.
“Come you spirits, that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here”
The Witches – Supernatural beings who predict the future.
“Foul is fair and fair is foul”
Banquo – Macbeth’s best friend who Macbeth later sees as a threat.
“Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all, as the weird women promised, and, I fear, thou play’dst most foully for’t”
Duncan – King of Scotland. A strong and respected leader.
“He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust”
Macduff – A noble soldier who is loyal to Duncan. He is the foil to Macbeth.
“Macduff was from his mother’s womb Untimely ripped.”
Malcolm – Duncan’s son and the heir to the throne.
“Be this the whetstone of your sword: let grief/ Convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it.” Ambition
“I have no spur/ To prick the sides of my intent, but only/ Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself/ And falls on th’other”
Guilt
“Out, damned spot; out I say.”
Gender and identity
“Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.”
Power
“All hail Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!”
Appearance and Reality
“Is this a dagger I see before me?”<br>
Jacobean politics – The Gunpowder Plot and The Gowrie Conspiracy.
King James I of England (VI of Scotland)
Witchcraft
The Divine Right of Kings.
The Great Chain of Being.<br>
slide2. Macbeth – Knowledge Organiser - Quotes Themes Characters Macbeth – the protagonist. He transforms from a loyal warrior to a tyrannical king.
“Oh, full of scorpions is my mind dear wife”
Lady Macbeth – Macbeth’s wife. She is a strong and ambitious woman who goes against expectations.
“Come you spirits, that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here”
The Witches – Supernatural beings who predict the future.
“Foul is fair and fair is foul”
Banquo – Macbeth’s best friend who Macbeth later sees as a threat.
“Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all, as the weird women promised, and, I fear, thou play’dst most foully for’t”
Duncan – King of Scotland. A strong and respected leader.
“He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust”
Macduff – A noble soldier who is loyal to Duncan. He is the foil to Macbeth.
“Macduff was from his mother’s womb Untimely ripped.”
Malcolm – Duncan’s son and the heir to the throne.
“Be this the whetstone of your sword: let grief/ Convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it.” Ambition
“I have no spur/ To prick the sides of my intent, but only/ Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself/ And falls on th’other”
Guilt
“Out, damned spot; out I say.”
Gender and identity
“Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.”
Power
“All hail Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!”
Appearance and Reality
“Is this a dagger I see before me?”<br>