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Mr North – Macbeth – 2/4/14/ 3/4/14

1. See, See, our houndour’d hostess. – the love that follows us sometime is our troubles. I think this tells us that lady macbeth has a very strong relationship with duncan or duncan is seeing macbeth. This is ironic as we know that macbeth is going to kill him but he is using the term houndourd hostess towards him.

Developing – I think Macbeth is beginning to change his mind about killing the king because he now realises that killing the king would have grave punishment if he was found to be the murderer. I think this is also present because William Shakespeare is changing the sterotypes of the time like having a strong man who isnt cowardly and a women who is more domestic than strong and is maybe quite cowardly this might of been done as a type of protest as macbeth would rather pay somebody money to assinate his targets which shows him as quite a coward.

3rd April 2014

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Tone: Sadness, Shocked, Anger, intimidating,

Gesture: direct speaking, kissing, cuddling, falling into Macbeth’s arms

Lines (languages): ‘ your not a man but you could be so much more.

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2 responses to “Mr North – Macbeth – 2/4/14/ 3/4/14”

  1. jnorth Avatar
    jnorth

    Hello Lethaniel,

    There is a clear sense that you are developing your skills of analysis here – clever man! I like that you are now labelling key terms and you are also exploring Shakespeare’s possible intentions throughout the extract.

    Targets:
    – See me and we can work through where to put commas and full stops;
    – Are you able to explain the difference between dramatic irony and irony?

    Thanks,

    Mr North

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  2. Miss Drewett. Avatar
    Miss Drewett.

    You have really considered characters’ actions and thoughts as well as why they might have been portrayed this way (for what purpose), keep on with this sort of thinking as it these skills of analysis we are working towards; good job! Keep considering quotes directly and what they show (like you have done with ‘honoured hostess’). Make sure to always check words you are not sure of on the nofear website or a dictionary site, e.g. hostess is a feminine term so is directed towards Lady Macbeth. The irony you talk about is still present it just needs to be refocused onto the right characters.

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