Macbeth
Key Quotations with Grade 9 Analysis
,Colour Key for Highlighted Themes:
Green/Blue – ambition
Yellow – guilt
Green – supernatural
Red – kingship
, “unseam’d him from the nave to the
chaps.”
• The violent imagery from the Sergeant highlights the violence of the
society and that Macbeth is capable of inflicting on others. The
visceral description suggests that a body has literally been ripped
apart, almost like a garment of clothing. Link to mentions of ‘bloody’,
‘choke, ‘carved’, ‘wounds’ - a linguistic evocation of the violence
permeating Macbeth’s Scotland and the world of Early Modern
England.
Key Quotations with Grade 9 Analysis
,Colour Key for Highlighted Themes:
Green/Blue – ambition
Yellow – guilt
Green – supernatural
Red – kingship
, “unseam’d him from the nave to the
chaps.”
• The violent imagery from the Sergeant highlights the violence of the
society and that Macbeth is capable of inflicting on others. The
visceral description suggests that a body has literally been ripped
apart, almost like a garment of clothing. Link to mentions of ‘bloody’,
‘choke, ‘carved’, ‘wounds’ - a linguistic evocation of the violence
permeating Macbeth’s Scotland and the world of Early Modern
England.
