Transcript Analyzing Quotes from Macbeth

Analyzing Quotes from
Macbeth
PEE Practice
Giving evidence
• It is crucial that you PEE in your writing to
make it as accurate as possible.
But what is the evidence?
• The evidence you need to use is anything
from the text. If you make a point then you
need to refer back to the text to show
where you’re getting your ideas from and
that you’re not just making them up.
• Look at the text from Act 2, Scene 1. How
do we know that it is late at night?
Giving Evidence
• BANQUO How goes the night, boy?
• FLEANCE The moon is down; I have not heard
the clock.
• BANQUO And she goes down at twelve.
• FLEANCE I take 't 'tis later, sir.
• BANQUO Hold, take my sword. There's
husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out.
• Finding the evidence is one thing -but how
do we write it?
Giving evidence: Paraphrasing
• This means taking what is said in the text
and putting it in your own words. You do
need to make sure that you keep the
meaning the same.
• Their candles are all out becomes
• Banquo notes that it is very dark and
overcast as none of the stars can be
seen.
Giving evidence :
Your turn …
• I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters: To you they
have show'd some truth.
• Becomes
• Banquo tries to get Macbeth to talk about the
witches and reminds him that they seem to have
spoken accurately about what would happen to
Macbeth.
• Remember that the greater amount of information you
include, the more you are showing that you understand
the text.
Giving evidence: Quoting
• This means taking the exact words that are used in the
text. You must always use quotation marks (single
speech marks). You must make sure that the sentence
still makes sense.
• Banquo changes the subject to talk about the
meeting they had with the ‘three weird sisters’. He
sounds a little concerned that they ‘show’dsome
truth’ to Macbeth.
• The quotations are only short but make your point and
link what you say back to the text. You do not have to
include whole lines but can choose selected phrases.
Giving evidence
Your turn …
• Look at Act 2, Scene 2, lines 44-47. Write
a sentence or two to show what Lady
Macbeth thinks of how her husband is
acting after the murder.
– “Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy
thane, You do unbend your noble strength, to
think So brainsickly of things. Go get some
water, And wash this filthy witness from your
hand” (2.2.44-47).
• Lady Macbeth is scornful of the way that
Macbeth is acting and warns that he will
‘unbend’ his ‘noble strength’ if he carries
on worrying about it. She argues that he
just needs some ‘water’ to clear him of the
deed.
Giving evidence: Putting it all
together
Using quotations from the text to provide
your evidence and using the same PEE
structure, write a detailed paragraph in
which you explain how Macbeth feels after
he has murdered Duncan.
See handout as we write a paragraph
together as a class. Remember that you
will be required to do this on your final
exam!