Macbeth

By the end you’ll be able to

• Trace Macbeth’s transformation from “brave” warrior to “butcher” and tyrant, and Lady Macbeth’s movement from controlling ambition to guilt, madness and death
• Analyse the themes of ambition, the supernatural, guilt and conscience, kingship versus tyranny, appearance and reality, and masculinity
• Analyse the key scenes: the witches’ prophecies (1.3), “unsex me here” (1.5), the dagger soliloquy (2.1), Duncan’s murder (2.2), the banquet (3.4), sleepwalking (5.1) and “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow” (5.5)