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[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"
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[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"
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[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
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[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
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[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"
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[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"
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[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"
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[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)
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[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"
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[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"
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[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"
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[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"
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[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"
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[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"
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[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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