Madness

Question 1

Madness
All quotes

Answer 1

‘Come you spirits’
‘Out, damned spot’
‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood?’
‘way of life’ ‘the yellow leaf’
‘my wife and children’s ghosts will haunt me’

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?
(2 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
Deteriorates mentally, compares his ‘way of life’ to ‘the yellow leaf’ metaphor, withered, nihilistic, sympathy as he is hopeless

Question 4

Madness
Macduff?
(1 point)

Answer 4

He is driven by madness ‘my wife and children’s ghosts will haunt me’ reason for hatred, murder prevents madness as he achieves revenge