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This video is a line-by-line walkthrough guide for William Shakespeare’s Macbeth: Act 1, Scene 3.
I provide a close reading of the entire scene, including: — Detailed explication — Commentary — Literary analysis
All commentary is supplemented by in-text, line-by-line study notes designed to help students: — Prepare for GCSE, A-Level, IB, and AP evaluation — Prepare for general high school and college quizzes, exams, and essays — Generate ideas for analysis essays — Participate knowledgeably in class discussions Click here to download the annotated text of Macbeth: https://sites.google.com/view/shakespeare-walkthrough/home
This video discusses :
PLOT: — The witches’ 3 prophesies
CHARACTER: — Witches as spectacle; as resentful “Jokeresque” nihilists — Banquo as character foil; wise; tempted but possessing strength of character — Macbeth: ambitious; foolish; lacking self-knowledge; morally aware but weak; passive aggressive
THEME: — The root cause of evil = resentment, bitterness, desire for revenge — Appearance vs reality, equivocation — Manhood — Borrowed robes: Macbeth’s unsuitability for the role of king — The necessary paranoia of the tyrant — Panic attacks
