Madness

Question 1

Madness
All quotes

Answer 1

‘Come you spirits’
‘Out, damned spot’
‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood?’
‘gory locks’ ‘stand not upon the order of your going’
‘way of life’ ‘the yellow leaf’

Question 2

Madness
LM?
(2 points)

Answer 2

Driven, desperate for power, soliloquy reveals her thoughts ‘Come you spirits’ imperative, demanding, malevolent entities, unease, if audience don’t believe in supernatural powers she is mad
Begins her demise, mentally unstable, disjointed, isolated ‘Out, damned spot’ sleepwalking, speaking to herself, visually mad, led to suicide, sinful in Jacobean era, pathos from modern

Question 3

Madness
Macbeth?
(3 points)

Answer 3

Breaks down after murder of Duncan ‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood?’ hyperbole, burden of his actions, metaphor, guilt, repeated symbol of blood in the play, horror of his actions, fixated on the blood
Sees Banquo’s ghost at the banquet, his ‘gory locks’ haunted by his actions of betrayal, gruesome visual onstage, abhorrent act, madness ruins reputation, disrupts control ‘stand not upon the order of your going’ chaos
Deteriorates mentally, compares his ‘way of life’ to ‘the yellow leaf’ metaphor, withered, nihilistic, sympathy as he is hopeless