Madness

Question 1

Madness
All quotes

Answer 1

‘Come you spirits’
‘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’
‘Out, damned spot’

Question 2

Madness
1st point and quotations

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

Question 3

Madness
2nd point and quotations

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

Question 4

Madness
3rd point and quotations

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Madness
4th point and quotations

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Madness
5th point and quotations

Answer 6

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