MacBeth

Your response should demonstrate your understanding of the
quotation provided,
and be able to set the quotation within the
context of the play as a whole within the
terms set by the question.
A
high quality response will be persuasive, critical, analytical,
knowledgeable about
the overall themes and ideas of
the
texts, and be able to
demonstrate
a good
understanding of the text’s details.

No secondary source research is required for this task.
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Work needs to be correctly and appropriately referenced, using the Chicago
(footnotes) or
MLA
style.

Macbeth:
Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown
And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,
Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand,
No son of mine succeeding. If ‘t be so,
For Banquo’s issue have I filed my mind; For them, the gracious Duncan have I murdered;
Put rancours in the vessel of my peace
Only for them; and mine eternal jewel
Given to the common enemy of man,
To make them kings, the
seed of Banquo kings!
3.1.60–69

Critically analyse
Macbeth’s understanding of his own agency in the course of the play,
as it is exemplified in this passage
.