English Literature
- English Literature
- MacbethThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.HydeAQA AnthologyAn Inspector Calls
- GCSE
- AQA
- Created by: laurenmasih
- Created on: 08-05-17 20:50
[Mac] How far is Macbeth's downfall Lady Macbeth's
1)Yes, Lady Macbeth encouraged him
- "look like th'innocent flower but be the serpent under't" - Lady Macbeth
- "so that I may pour my spirits in thine ear" - Lady Macbeth
- "my hands are of your coulor but I shame to wear a heart so white"- Lady Macbeth (men were often expected to be powerful, but LM seems like the powerful one here)
2) No, Macbeth's ambition was fueled by those around him
- "Like Valour's minion carved his passage" - Captain
- "All hail Macbeth" - Witches
- "If chance will have me King, why chance may crwon me without my stir" - Macbeth
3) No, it was his own fault. He knew hat what he was doing was wrong
- "This hand will rather the multitudinous seas incardanine" - Macbeth
- "Not bear the knife myself" - Macbeth
- "Bloody instructions, which being taught, return to plague th'inventor" -Macbeth
- "A dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?"
- "Nature seems dead and, wicked dreams abuse the curtain'd sleep"
[J+H] Friendship, trust and honur
1) EXTRACT
2) Male friendship is reserved
- "They said nothing and looked singularly dull"
- "They liked to sit a while in his unobtrusive company, practising for solitude"
- "They said nothing and looked singularly dull"
3) Male friendship loyal and longlasting
- "Old cronies"
- "His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest"
- "His affections like ivy, were the growth of time"
[AIC] Socialism
1) In contrast with capitalism
- "fiddlesticks! The Germans don't want war, nodoby wants war" - Mr. B
- "unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable" - Mr. B
- "a man has to mind his own business and look after himself"- Mr. B
- "they'd soon be asking for the earth" - Mr. B ..."it's better to ask for the earth tham to take it"- I
2) Through the Inspector
- "if men will not learn that lesson then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish"- I
- "their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives"- I
- "we are all members of one body"- I
3) Using a generation divide
- "it's what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters"-E
- "these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people"- Sheila
- "(bitterly) I suppose we're all good people now"- Sheila
[AIC] Women in An Inspector Calls
1) They need to be protected
- "and you think that young women need to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing tthings?"- I
- "she's had a long and exciting day [...] she's obviously had about as much as she can take"- Gerald
- "gave me a glance that was nothing less than a cry for help"- Gerald
2) Their status is lower than a man's
- "clothes mean somthing quite different to a women, a sort of sign or token of their self-respect"- Mr. B
- "young and fresh and charming"- Gerald
- "she was very pretty and looked as if she could take care of herself. I couldn't be sorry for her"- Sheila
3) Their status is wrong and old-fashioned
- "your daughter isn't living on the moon, she's here in Brumley too"- I
- "it's what happened to th egirl and what we all did to her that matters"- Eric
- "just used her at the end of a stupid drunken evening, as if she were an animal, a thing, not a person"- I
[Mac] Macbeth=Hero?
1) Extract
2)No, he knew that what he was doing was wrong making him more of a villain
- "look like th'innocent flower but be the serpent under't"- LM [he listens to his wife]
- "poison'd chalice"- Mac
3) Yes, he is brave and has very heroic characteristics
- "I cannot taint with fear"- Mac
- "the mind I sway"- Mac
- "unseam'd him from the nave to th' chops"- Cap
- "like Valour's minion carv'd out his passage"
[J+H] Science in Jekyll and Hyde
1) Extract
2) Science goes against God and religion
- "one was wholly evil"
- "instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged"
- "my lust of evil gratified and stimulated"
- "Edward Hyde alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil"
- "really like Satan"
- "I read Satan's signature upon a face"
3) Science has gone too far
- "my life is shaken to it's roots"
- "lusting to inflict pain"
- "the hair stood upon my hair like quills"
- "that both torture and defrom the sufferer"
[Mac] Deception in Macbeth...
1) Extract
2) Apperance vs. reality
- "sleek o'er your rugged looks"- LM
- "be bright and jovial"- LM
- "look like th'innocent flower but be the serpent under't"- LM
- "make our faces vizards to our hearts"- Mac
- "O, yet I do repent me of my fury, that I did kill them"- Mac
3) Witches
- "None of woman born shall harm Macbeth"- Apparition
- "Fair is foul, and foul is fair"
[J+H] How does Stevenson contrast Jekyll and Hyde?
1) Extract
2) Their apperances are very diffrent
- "well-made, smooth-faced man of about fifty" (about Jekyll)
- "something of a slugish cast perhaps" (about Jekyll)
- "pale and dwarfish" (about Hyde)
- "displeasing" (about Hyde)
- "downright detestable" (about Hyde)
3) Speak differently
- "carried it off gaily" (about Jekyll)
- "the other snarled aloud with a savage laugh" (about Hyde)
[Mac] Sympathise for Lady Macbeth?
1) Extract
2) No, she's brutal and manipulative
- "unsex me here"
- "fill me from crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty"
3) Yes, she's suffers for her actions in the end
- "to seem thus washing her hands"
- "all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this litle hand"
[Mac] Duncan's murder=unnatural?
1) Extract
2) By reversing the animal kingdom's hierarchy
- "Contending 'gainst obedience, as they would make war wih Mankind"- Ross
- "A falcon, towering in her place of pride was by a mousing owl hawk'dat and killed"- Old Man
3) Evil has taken over the weather
- "and yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp"
- "Lamentings heard i' th'air, strange screams of death"
[AIC] Inequality
1) Between genders
- "girls mean something quite different to a woman [...] a sort of sign or token of their self respect"- Mr.B
- "she was very pretty and look as if she could take care of herself. I couldn't be sorry for her"- Sheila
- "He's a notorious womaniser as well as neing one of the worst sots and Rouges in Brumley"- Gerald
2) Between classes
- "girls of that class"- Mrs. Birling
- "if you don't come down sharply on these people, they'd soon be asking for the earth"
- "a man has to make his own way - has to look after himself- and his family too of course"
3) It's old fashioned
- "it's what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters"
- "but these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people"
[J+H] Importance of Utterson
1) Extract
2) Linked to all of the characters
- "he had an approved tolerance of others" - "it turns me cold to think of this creature"
- his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time"
- "sighed deeply but never said a word"
3) He is the ideal Victorian gentleman and acts as a direct contrast for both Jekyll and Hyde
- "embarresed in discourse"
- "he was austere with himself, drank gin when he was alone"
- "it was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable aquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of downgoing men"
[AIC] Responsibility
1) Everyone has their own responsibilities
- "so nothing happened. So there's nothing to be sorry for, nothing to learn"- Sheila
- "the wretched girl's suicide"- Mrs. B
2) Collective responsibility is alos important
- "their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives"- I
- "we are members of one body"- I
3) If responsibility isn't accepted then there will be consequences
- "if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish"
[Mac] Bravery
1) Extract
2) Bravery for good (helping Scottland)
- "like Valour's minion carv'd out his passage"
- "that Bellona's bridegroom"
3) Bravery for bad (death and destruction)
- "it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell"
- "look like th'innocent flower but be the serpent under'it"
[Mac] Macbeth character quotes
- "brave Macbeth"- Captain
- "like Valour's minion carv'd out his passage"- Captain
- "unseam'd him from the nace to th'chaps"- Captain
- "Bellona's bridegroom"- Ross
- "if chance may have me king, why chance may crown me without my stir"- Macbeth
- "let not light see my black and deep desires"- Macbeth
- "too full o'th'milk of human kindness"- Lady Macbeth
- "look like th'innocent flower but be the seroent under't"- Lady Macbeth
- "not bear the knife myself"- Macbeth
- "bloody instructions, which being taught, return to plague th'inventor"
- "our poison'd chalice"- Macbeth
- "i have no spur to ***** the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself and falls on th'other-"- Macbeth
- "I dare do all that may become a man, who dares do more is none"- Macbeth
- "when you durst do it, then you were a man"- Lady Macbeth
- "a dagger of the mind a false creation,proceeding from the heat-opressed brain?"- Macbeth
- "wicked dreams abuse the curtained sleep"- Macbeth
- "Hear it not Duncan, for it is a knell that invites thee to heaven or to hell"- Macbeth
- "with these hangman's hands"- Macbeth
- "Will all great Neptune's wash this blood clean from my hand? No, my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine"- Macbeth
- "we have scorch'd the snake not kill'd it"- Macbeth
- "fuul of scorpions is my mind"- Macbeth
- "sweet bodements"- Macbeth
- "where violent sorrow seems a modern ecstasy"- Macbeth
- "life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon teh stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing"- Macbeth
- "Yet I will try the last. Before my body I throw my warlike shield"
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