the uh camera. So guys, um guys, we had a little bit of a technical issue last time. So um I'm going to be obviously monitoring the chat and the live. That was just a YouTube advert. That was a YouTube advert. So guys, uh, we're both basically going to be monitoring what's going on in the chat along with, um, you know, obviously teaching you guys all your last minute tips for MC Beth, right? So, Mr. Sales, obviously, welcome back. Thank you. And, um, guys, so obviously, uh, what we're going to be going over today is your last minute 24-hour revision for McBTH, which is obviously part of your upcoming literature, paper one exams, which are going to be on Monday, guys. Okay. So, obviously what we're going to do is go over exam strategy for this paper, how you should approach the McBTH question specifically, and also guys um we're going to go over, you know, what you need to remember in terms of characters. Also guys, um I we have heard some rumors in terms of certain characters coming up which we honestly generally don't think will come up. So, we're going to also be addressing that. And also guys, we will then finish off by talking about quotations and your last minute quotes for McBTH. Okay? And of course guys, um obviously tomorrow Mr. Sally's will not be joining me when I go live, but I will be talking about last minute tips for Christmas Carol at a similar time at 300 p.m. tomorrow. Okay. And also finally guys, um in case you missed my literature classes, like my last minute revision classes, which I ran last week and even earlier before, just simply sign up for those classes um and literally download those last minute model answers in case you find them helpful for your exams. So let's get started. McBth 2025 exams guys. Right. So Mr. Sally's maybe you can get started in terms of when it comes to approaching McBth but also more specifically when it comes to approaching literature paper one exams. What should students think about in terms of timings exam strategy and so on? Right. So the first thing about exam strategy is to go on the B of bang. You want to go as soon as the exam starts. Be ready. How are you going to be ready? Well, you know, you're going to get about 52 minutes for each question. And your job is to write as much as you can in those 52 minutes. The more you write, the higher your mark is going to be. I know that sounds really simplistic, but I see it again and again in model answers. Students who write more get higher marks. They don't have to be cleverer. When you say 52 minutes, can you just clarify why you're talking about 52 minutes and an exam that's 1 hour 45 minutes long? Yes. So obviously there's going to be some FAF opening up the exam paper, finding the right question, reading through the extract. Um, so you want to take half the time that's left from the exam, which will be about 52 minutes. Okay. So 52 minutes for section 8 math and then 52 minutes for the second question. Exactly. um then you would always read the question first before you read the extract. The extract is likely to lead to a level of anxiety because you're reading Shakespeare, but the question is written in normal English. Highlight the key words because these are the ones you must put in your answer in every paragraph. So that is your most important job. And then how would you approach the extract itself? Okay. So guys, when it comes to uh the McBth portion of your exams, to be honest, even for Christmas Carol, Jack on Hide, whichever section B question you're going to approach, I have a really specific strategy I always tell my students. In fact, when I did my m Beth master class just this Monday gone, I always say the same thing. Even in my previous master classes, always begin in terms of this exam by reading the question first, then the extract. Now when it comes to actually after you've read the question then you've read the extract how do you answer how do you structure your response I always suggest take a very specific framework which is start with your introduction and your opening thesis statement this is optional to be honest I personally don't think thesis statements are that essential um and they you can still get an eight or a nine without a thesis statement without an introduction however after you start with an introduction if you decide to opt for that make sure you select two points from the extract in connection to the question, then two points from elsewhere before finishing off your essay. What that means is an ideal model essay and a McBreth essay would have two points from the extract, two points from elsewhere in the novel. However, these are not short four paragraphs. Those of you guys that joined in my model answers and my McBth master class will know that you I always suggest guys, you want to go into chunky paragraphs. You want to go into detail. Okay, that's my suggestion. How would that differ from your approach? So I've got two approaches. Uh so for most of you are going to be starting with the extract. And so I'll give you that as a first approach. Totally agree. Find two quotes in the extract. If you find more, you can write about more. But really just focus on two. But what do you do with those two quotes? You have to think, okay, I found this quote in the extract. What does that remind me of from early in the play? And then what does that remind me of from later in the play? And so I would have two quotes, one from earlier and one from later that join with the one you found in the extract. The advantage of that is you're able to show the journey of the character or the journey of the theme and that means you can write an argument. So it's really difficult not to get a grade seven if you take that approach. In total that would give you a minimum of six quotes because you got two from the extract and two for each of those quotes in the extract. Again, always going back to early in the play and then later in the play so you can show that development. This means that the paragraphs that I tend to write, they're 80 to 100 words long. That's all they are. You'll have more paragraphs and you would start with a thesis statement. Now, you're absolutely spot on. You can get a grade eight, nine without it. However, the thesis statement introduces two or three ideas that the author has and then those three ideas end up being your essay plan. So, you don't have to spend ages planning the essay if you write about the author's ideas. Again, it's hard not to get at least a grade seven. And that's why I always write a thesis statement. Okay. Okay. So, you're basically saying that the thesis statement is you showing the examiner you understand and you're kind of um prefacing and guiding them as to what you're going to go into in your in your essays. Yeah. But not just guiding what I'm going to go into, it's which of Shakespeare's ideas I'm going into. Okay. Yeah. And then if I've got three ideas, then my quotes will relate back to those three ideas. Is that the only way students can approach an exam like this or No. So if I were doing the exam, I wouldn't start with the extract. The examiners only ask you to start with the extract so you can start quoting. It's for students who haven't done any revision. Right? But in the mark scheme, there's nothing about starting with the extract. And the only law of the exam is that you must write something about the extract. So the easiest way to build an argument, of course, is to follow the character or the theme through the text. So you'd follow them chronologically and then slip the extract in where it happens chronologically in that sequence. That really makes it much easier for you to write super fast because you don't have to think, oh, what does this quote remind me of because you remember the story much more quickly and you'll remember the quotes much more quickly than having to jump from the extract out to the rest of the text. Okay? So chronologically can also work for students especially who find it easier to when they're thinking about the plot they don't just work through the plot as they connect it to the question. Yeah. It's got to only be connected to the question. So typically that's a grade seven to nine technique and I see that a lot in the example answers students writing chronologically instead of starting from the extract. Okay guys I'm going to just quickly check if the chat is working and if obviously everything is okay technically speaking. I'm just going to quickly check. Okay perfect. So guys, um, right, so carrying on. Um, I'm just doing this because I remember our live stream, our previous live stream, uh, when there wasn't any sound. Anyway guys, so hopefully it's clear in terms of exam strategy. And guys, what we're going to try and do is also make sure we finish with a bit with about 10 minutes before 4 p.m. when we do have to finish off uh to just answer any questions very quickly. Okay. So now when it comes to McBTH specifically, right, we now know how to approach the actual exam that you're going to be sitting at 9:00 a.m. on Monday. So with McBTH specifically, what should students um how should students approach this play when it comes to revising for characters? Because obviously the question that you guys get will either be a character focused question or a theme question. How should they approach it? So we've highlighted the main characters for you, McBth, Lady McBth, and the witches as a group. And then we've given you the minor characters with this important health warning. So this is the the rumor that you were talking about, isn't it? Do you want to talk us through the rumor? Okay. So guys, I have been hearing through the student rumor mill, right? Maybe I could be wrong, but some people are saying that McDuff could potentially come up or Bangquo or even for example um I know for um EDXL people always say, "Oh, there's a past question where the porter came up." What if we get a porter question? Guys, I would like to really recommend we literally have 24 hours now or just over 24 hours to your McBTH exams. Please don't waste your time studying and preparing for minor characters. Okay? Remember, if you get a character question, you will always only get one of the main characters. Remember guys, that AQA edX, your exam board is not trying to catch you out. They don't want to find ways to fail you, okay? So, they're not going to ask you a minor character like McDuff, like King Duncan, like Bankro. What you can get is say an extract something to do with Mc Beth when he's confronted by McDuff for instance, right? Or for example with the 2018 paper how McBth and Bank's attitudes towards the supernatural are presented, right? But you're never going to get like a McDuff focused question or a Bangqua focused question or a Duncan focused question. Remember guys that the you know the um examiners in your exam board do not want you guys to fail, okay? So they're not trying to figure out ways to catch you out, okay? You're only ever going to get if you get a character question, the main characters. And who are the main characters? So, we're going with McBth, Lady McBth, and the witches. Um, how do you want to divide these up? Shall I do three ideas about McBth and you do three about McBTH? Okay. So, if I'm writing about McBTH, the high grades are for Dick Dick Shakespeare's ideas. So, what are the main ideas? Well, McBth has to be a tragic hero. So first he has to start off as a really noble character so that we can see the arc and his decline. So that's important about the description of him in battle defeating the Norwegians because he is a tragic hero. Then we can start writing about his hamashia his fatal flaw. You can choose what that is. Most teachers teach that it is ambition. And so that is the second point about him. what is his fatal flaw and link that to Shakespeare's purpose which is to write a cautionary tale to stop the nobles rebelling against King James. So he's really saying if you're thinking about becoming king yourself that is your fatal flaw and you too will be a tragic hero who fails just like McBth does. And then the third thing is he wants to create a psychological portrait when that Beth feels like a real person who's being acted on by the supernatural which is why we see the decline in his mental state. Um because Shakespeare is bringing us a Christian message and saying that any idea of trying to improve your station in life through violence is actually the devil's work. It's Satan working through you and you should avoid your own ambition. So those are my three McBTH ideas on McBTH. And incidentally, uh if you guys have watched our prediction video on McBTH, I actually predict that the character question will be McBth for this year. So I'm going to be a little bit conservative and think that those McBth points are going to be super useful for you if my prediction comes up. Now, of course, the other main character, guys, is to do with Lady McBth's character. Okay, so of course guys, remember you need to be clued up for Lady McBth. She was the character question that came up last year, right? Meaning, of course, you can always bank on either getting a question on McBTH or Lady McBth. Now, when it comes to Lady McBth's character, and I was actually talking about this in my previous um master class where I went over a model response for the 2024 McBth question, right? Especially on Lady McBth's character. In terms of her character, when you're writing about her, always talk about number one, how she in her relationship with her husband inverts Jackabian society's expectations of women and their role in their marriage is inverted. In other words, she's the one that displays more dominant masculine traits, right? She's the one that has the ambition initially. She's the one that orchestrates and really plots the murder of King Duncan, even manipulating her husband, whilst McBth is the one in their relationship who is portrayed as displaying more feminine traits, um, more submissive traits. Okay, so what's really interesting is you want to always mention, especially when you're talking about Lady McBth's character, how she is presented as exhibiting these masculine traits. Okay, so that's a really important point. Now, also in terms of Lady McBth's character, you want to always make sure in any essay that you write, you juxtapose how she is shown at the beginning versus how she is shown as being punished for this ambition at the end in act five, scene one where she has supernatural hallucinations and sees spots of blood on her hands. talk about how you know um the hallucinations the guilt that she feels this is divine punishment upon her because of her ambition because of going against her nature as a woman. Okay. And also another point you can talk about with Lady McBth's character is it's really interesting how she um much like the witches are portrayed as kind of these um fatal characters, right? Kind of like and I think you've mentioned this in the past how she's almost presented kind of like Eve and Adam, right? in the garden of Eden and the original sin that McBth commits which is killing um King Duncan committing reside is as a result of her influence on him right so you want to talk about those points with Lady McBth's character brilliant yeah definitely I'd love that yeah how about the witches witches comes up the witches are easy because you all know that King James had written this book demonology that he was fascinated by witchcraft and he feared that witches had attempted to assass fascinate him when he was in Scotland. So he 100% believed that the witches could control events. But Shakespeare takes this idea, gives it in the play in order to flatter King James to play to his interest because King James is his patron, which means King James is basically paying Shakespeare to write plays for him and put them on in James's palace. Yeah. This isn't put on at the Globe. It's put on in front of the nobles. Now Shakespeare does something quite subtle. So he introduces the witches so that we can interpret them as controlling McBth, controlling the weather, controlling the future. But also we can assume that they don't do any of that. All they do is foretell the future. And they only ever tell McBth what is going to happen. And if he doesn't have this hammatia, he doesn't have this ambition, he doesn't have this desire to get to his fate much more quickly, then he might have succeeded. And the witches never tell him to do anything. They never make him do anything. That evil is all in McBth. And so I love the quote when he goes back to the witches and they say, "Something wicked by the pricking of my thumbs. Something wicked this way comes." That's not the witches, it's McBth. So, McBth, the witches are there to show that McBth is even more evil than they are. And then the third point about the witches, which I love, is they are punished at the end of the play. They just disappear. They've got away with it. It's McBth and Lady McBth who are punished, but not them. And so, the power of the witches lives on, which I guess is a message to Jacabian society. Beware the witches, the forces of evil. They're out to manipulate you. Okay. So, um, one of the things that has just occurred to me is when we've been talking about McBth, Lady McBth and the Witches, we've been weaving in context without mentioning it explicitly. Yes. And so, guys, obviously for some of you guys who maybe have picked up on key words that we've used like Jacabian, society, and so on. Remember any discussion that you do in McBTH especially if you want to get at least a six, seven, eight or nine has to not only show an awareness and understanding of these characters but you need to also talk about what ideas um was Shakespeare influenced by contextually at the time. So very briefly in terms of McBth, Lady McBth in the Witches context, what would you say are say the top three or top five context points that can really work with any of these characters? So obviously you've got King James's demonology and his interest in the witches. You've got the idea that King James popularized the divine right of kings. The idea that God chose the king and therefore the king represented God on earth and so killing a king wasn't just murder. It was attacking God himself. Then you've got this other idea of the great chain of being. And the great chain of being basically said, "We've all got our status in society and we're not allowed to change it." And this is some sophisticated context, but Shakespeare has completely changed his status in society. And yet he's having to write a play in which anyone who tries to change their status gets killed. Yeah. And so I love the tension between that. So I think he sympathizes with McBth even though he has to present him as a villain who fails. So that's three. Have you got some more than you done? Yeah, I was also going to I was going to add to what you've said guys. One of the things that students tend to ask me and again when I was doing my McBTH master class on Monday, they were saying, "Wait, but hang on, ambition. Isn't ambition a good thing in our society today?" Yes, today is it's a good thing, right? Starting at one point and then ending in a different point. In fact, Americans call it achieving the American dream. Now, what you said is really interesting, right? Shakespeare himself, um, you know, did start off rich and then became incredibly rich through his work. However, remember that the idea he wants to reinforce in McBTH is having any form of ambition is actually quite corrupting because it not only destabilizes the social order and it is a social order that exists at the time which was influenced by the feudal system and the whole idea of this play was to keep everything exactly as it is. So remember guys in terms of context always remember that ambition is always seen as a really terrible thing in Jacabian society. Not today, not in a modern society. Of course, if you want to add the alternative interpretations as Mr. Sales has mentioned, you can then talk about actually on, you know, conversely today as a modern audience, could we maybe feel some empathy, some form of sympathy towards McBth, who actually is just an ambitious character who wanted to rise above his social station, right? if you wanted to add an alternative interpretation. However, if you don't and you want to go just for the more straightforward, easier context, remember that ambition was always seen as something that would disrupt the rigid hierarchy that existed during Shakespeare's time. Okay, so remember that you want to always tie that um those points together. Okay, so divine right of kings obviously Mr. Salies is also talking about supernatural. It's a really terrible thing. It's not like Harry Potter today again where we see like witches and wizards in a really positive way. It was always seen as something that would deliberately lead to your downfall. Brilliant. So, time for the main themes. I was actually going to ask. Oh, go for it. Which of the characters will never come up? All right. So, on their own, uh, McDuff and Duncan will never come up and Banquo will only ever come up as a comparison to McBTH. There is, if we're talking about rumors, the the question that most students dread every year is a question on kingship. Okay? And if you ever did get kingship, then you go, "Oh, great. Well, I could use Duncan, but you don't have to know any quotes." So, interestingly, the um mark scheme never has the word quotes or quotation in it. It just has the word references. So even if you did get a question on kingship, you wouldn't have to remember any quotes from those characters. You would just have to refer to things they do or say. But does that mean that students don't have to quote? No, it doesn't. Well, actually the real answer is yes, it does. There is they do not have to quote. However, if you're going to get your AO2 language analysis in, you've got a quote, haven't you? But in theory, the exam board will say, "We will just treat it as a paraphrase. We don't care." In reality, whenever you read top grade essays from six and above, they're all full of quotes. Yeah. So, guys, always make sure you are quoting. Okay. So, 100% quote, right? So, themes. Yeah. Okay. Do you want to start with ambition? Yes. So guys, obviously um in terms of themes that you should anticipate coming up and also by the way guys, if you get a character question, you still need to talk about themes cuz themes are always tied to Shakespeare's message, Shakespeare's ideas. Okay? So make sure even if you get a character question, don't just keep it to just these characters. Oh, they're showing us this, they're shown as that. Talk about also themes because they're tied to Shakespeare's message. Of course, the main theme is to do with ambition. Okay? And of course, remember that the whole play is a message against the corrupting influence of ambition. Shakespeare uses McBth and Lady McBth's characters to show and to present them as cautionary characters. In other words, they are shown to be punished for their ambition. They face divine punishment. Okay? And of course, with ambition, you can go to town with this type of question. In fact, to be honest, I think if ambition comes up for this year's exams, I would say it's a gift, right? Because you can talk about how McBth is shown is corrupted by his ambition to be king. Lady McBth is shown at the beginning based on what I've just talked about with Lady McBth's character as corrupted and even bloodthirsty as a result of her ambition. But also, if you talk about ambition, talk about how they are also um they develop paranoia but also guilt. And this is shown through the supernatural hallucinations. McBth sees the floating dagger. He sees Vanquo's ghost. And of course, Lady McBth hallucinates in act five, scene one, and she sees the spots of blood on her hands. Remember Shakespeare's central message is ambition is corrupting. Do not be ambitious. Not only will it lead to your downfall, but also it's going to affect the country that you belong to. Brilliant. Okay. So, let's get into the supernatural. You already know about demonology. You know about flattering King James. But let's think of these three witches. Who are they? Well, they are women with beards. In a patriarchal society where basically as a woman, you go on in life through marriage. They're excluded from that. So, these are women who desperately want power and influence, but they can't get it because they're ugly and presumably poor. And so, this gives us a psychological reason why they would turn to evil. What is that, though? Again, it's their ambition, isn't it, that's leading them to become witches. And then you've got this discussion as to whether their power is real. How much do they control McBTH versus how much does he do it himself? And there isn't a right answer to that, but discussing that, have two views about it and decide which one you prefer will always get you into the top grades. Obviously, you've got that encounter with McBth where he immediately starts thinking of killing Duncan even when he's got this great news that he's going to become king. Like they never say to him, "You've got to kill the king." It's not even mentioned. It's all his idea. Then of course, you refer to it. He sees the ghost of Banquo. I love this element of the supernatural because this is Banquo's revenge. When Bankro appears as a ghost, McBth says, "Never shake thy gory locks at me." All the other nobles think he must be talking about Duncan. They don't know Bankro's just been murdered. That they do know about Duncan. And so they immediately see that he is the person who has killed Duncan. Even though that's not what he's saying, that's what they think. And so the supernatural has now controlled him. They've let everybody else know that McBth is the murderer. And from that moment, he can't succeed. And then we've got the links between the supernatural and Lady McBth. When she calls upon you murdering ministers, she is asking for supernatural help to kill Duncan. And that's why she's punished. That's possibly why Shakespeare kills her off first before McBth is punished because her sin is worse. She goes out and seeks supernatural influence to help her to be to become a murderer. And then if we go back to what I said earlier, the supernatural is not punished. They still get away with it at the end. And that acts as that cautionary tale again. Beware of your own ambition, your own capacity for evil because people like the witches are still out there trying to influence you. Okay. So the other theme is to do with the theme of guilt. Okay. So the theme of guilt could potentially be a question that you guys get in your exams on Monday. How could you write about the theme of guilt? Guys, remember when it comes to the theme of guilt, go beyond just saying McBth becomes really ambitious cuz he listens to the witches and he feels so bad and so guilty at the end. Don't say that. Don't say Lady McBth feels really guilty about causing McBth to kill King Duncan and she feels really guilty. That's not what the question is asking. If you are asked any question to do with guilt, number one, always remember that guilt is um shown and portrayed and presented as divine punishment that torments McBTH and Lady McBth for their ambition. And specifically when you talk about guilt for this kind of question, always talk about the supernatural hallucinations. Remember that the supernatural hallucinations are always used as symbols of guilt. In other words, guys, in any essay on guilt, if you get questioned on guilt and this theme, talk about how in McBTH, his guilt is portrayed and um you know, we can see um his sense of anguish, his sense of torment as a result of his ambition when he first hallucinates, sees the um spots um of the floating dagger. Equally, his guilt and his um sense of torment is also shown and and his rising paranoia once he sees the ghost of Bangquo, again, a result of his ambition. And finally, of course, with any kind of question like this, remember that you want to talk about how Lady McBth's guilt is portrayed through her supernatural hallucination. Equally, remember if you get a question on the theme of guilt, talk about how whilst this guilt that both McBth and Lady McBth feel as a result of ambition manifests itself in them, McBth turns this guilt outwards and goes on this killing spree. Lady McBth turns this guilt internally and ends up committing suicide. Okay, so that would be the points you can consider with guilt. Please guys, if you get a guilt question and anything to do with any of the hallucinations, they're not only symbols of guilt, but please move beyond talking about, oh, McBth, Lady McBth, they feel really guilty, they feel really bad because that's going to just keep you getting um stuck at grade four level. Okay? If you want to try and get five, six, seven, eight, and nine, you can you have to talk about these alternative points. How about appearances and reality? So, this is my least favorite theme. I don't think it will ever come up. However, appearance and reality brings us to the opening of the play, fair is foul and foul is fair. And the whole point of that is nothing is as it seems. And that starts the whole play off. We've got Duncan saying um about reading the mind's character in the face and he can't do it which is why he is deceived by the original um thing of Cordor and then of course McBth seems like this wonderfully noble character but then he becomes of Cordor also a traitor and the whole point of that is that in political life everything is uncertain. Why is Shakespeare doing that? Well, because that's what political his life is like at the time in Jacabe in England. People are really worried about are the Catholics going to come back? Are the Protestants going to say is James going to be the rightful king or is someone going to try and depose him? And so the idea of appearance and reality is really telling us about political uncertainty and how people felt super anxious at the time. So what happens at the end is we get reality returns. So order is restored. There is a rightful king Malcolm who gets restored. Everything is going to be fine in Scotland. But is it because the witches told us that Fleance is going to become king. Fleance is not related to Malcolm in any way. So how is that going to happen? So even at the end of the play, Shakespeare ends with this tension that feels like a wonderful happy ending, but actually what is the true reality? This I guess the easiest thing that is like is like a clickbait thumbnail that gets people to to click and watch and that's what Shakespeare is doing at the end of the play. You feel safe now, but are you okay? And the other theme is to do with a theme of fate and free will. Remember that this whole play is trying to show how McBth and Lady McBth try to go against their fate, their social position in the great chain of being by rising. So in McBth's case, he tries to rise above being a thing to becoming king. And Lady McBth, not only does she try to go against her fate as a woman when she asks the spirits to unsex her, right, but she also tries to go against her fate as just the wife of Athane to becoming queen of Scotland. Now, of course, remember that again going back to Shakespeare's message. And by the way, guys, all of these points are kind of in I believe intrinsically related to ambition. Even if you get character questions, by the way guys, you always find yourself circling back to ambition. And I'm saying this because when it comes to the idea and the theme of fate and free will, remember that McBth and Lady McBth attempt to gain power and go against the um chosen representative of God. And they also, especially McBth's case, try to control the outcome by seeking the witches, by seeking their prophecies in order to go against the fate which God had decreed for them. And of course, ultimately, what is Shakespeare's message with this theme? Well, if you go against your fate and try to exercise your free will, you're not only going to be punished, you're also going to probably face hell and eternal damnation as a result of that. Okay? And of course, with any kind of question on fate and free will, you want to talk about McBth and all his actions going against divine right of kings and so on. Obviously, Lady McBth, but also with the fate and free question, you can also potentially link it to either McDuff or Brower's characters who never try to exercise any form of free will. Bankro is told, "Your kids will be kings and he doesn't act on it. He's just like, "Okay, I'm just going to let, you know, fate take its course. If our kids are going to be kings, I'm not going to do anything about it." Same to McDuff. I think what's really interesting about McDuff's character is he kills the king, King McBth, but then hands the crown back over to Malcolm. He never tries to exercise any form of free will, any form of ambition, or he doesn't even manifest any ambition in trying to become king. He's not like, "Oh, I've killed King King McBth, now I can be king." He actually then lets take fate take its course. Okay? He then hands the crown back over to Malcolm. Okay. And I kind of had a thought if somebody is looking at this and watching this video and they're like, "Okay, this is really useful and helpful. How can I maybe revise? What's the most efficient revision strategy? Should I read a model answer? Should I read Mr. Salaz's guide? What's the best way to synthesize all of this if I need something to read?" Right? So, there's the money-making answer. So, you should go to our websites and download the right resource, but there's a there's also a chat GPT answer. Uh, if you um go underneath the video and find the transcript, which will then pop up at the side of the video, copy and paste that into chat GPT and ask it to summarize each of the sections that we've done to give you headings and then revise those. Okay? So you would in a in a way you would watch the video again by reading it and then summarizing it and then get someone to test you on the notes that you've taken and then you'll be sorted by Monday. Okay, there you go guys. Okay, so you can either go for here's revision guides, my model answers or chat GBT. Yeah. So quotes. Yes, the quotes. So obviously you could have a million quotes and I know I panicked you by saying you actually don't need loads of quotes. you know, you can get away without it. Having said that, grade nine essays typically have about 13. Grade seven essays typically have 10, and we've got eight for you here. There'll be loads more in the extract, so you can easily hit those figures. So, we're going to start with vaultting ambition. Obviously, we talked about ambition so much, and this is a must. I said that this is what most English teachers teach, as is Hamashia. That proves it, doesn't it? The rest of the quote uh is I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but vaultting ambition which falls on the other. And when you get the whole quote, you can argue if you want to, this is my interpretation that he knows ambition is going to fall on the other side. And in order to make the ambition work, he can't just kill Duncan. He needs the spur. And for me, that's Lady McBth. That's why he gets her involved in the plot. He writes the letter to her telling her about the witch's prophecies because he wants her help to make this plot work. And the reason I love that is it does work. The only time it goes wrong is when McBth decides to kill Banquo and then sees Banquo's ghost. If he hadn't seen Banquo's ghost, the nobles wouldn't have turned against him. And so this plan of the spur of Lady McBth would have succeeded. Okay, so obviously the next quotation guys if you forget everything is obviously the infamous Lady McBth quote unsex me hair. I think obviously this quotation not only ties to Lady McBth's character, how she goes against her nature as a woman, how she sees also her femininity is very restrictive, but equally of course this ties into the theme of the supernatural where she calls on the spirits in order to change the great chain of being the natural order that is there in order to attain power. Okay, so unsex is really useful not only for a leader McBth quotation, it also shows the theme of ambition and the theme of the supernatural and you can even argue the theme of guilt because we can see that her guilt results from her wanting to go against her nature as a woman. So the third quotation which I quite like is another lady McBth question. You want to do it then? You can do it. Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it. I think what's really interesting with this quotation, look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it. This is what Lady McBth says to McBth when she is advising him how to deceive King Duncan once he visits his castle and then eventually kill him. I think what's really interesting is firstly it's underlining Lady McBth's corrupt and manipulative nature. Equally remember, especially tied to the theme of appearances and reality, Shakespeare wanted to use this scene to warn his audience, his viewers against trusting things based on appearance. Now, of course, King Duncan highlights the oppo o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o oppos opposite side of this and his his fatal flaw is trusting appearances too much. Okay, which Lady McBth when she says this quotation uses this and someone like King Duncan is deceived by her outward appearance. Remember that King Duncan says there's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. I find it really hard to tell how people are in terms of the nature by just looking at their face. Lady McBth deliberately manipulates this. Okay, so remember with the quotation, look like the innocent flower would be the serpent under it. It shows Lady McBth's manipulative nature. It equally demonstrates Shakespeare's message, especially in connection to appearances of reality. The theme that whoever trusts appearances, they always tend to meet their untimely deaths. However, those that question appearances, they are the ones who are able to see through the deception of people like Lady McBth. But of course, obviously, Lady McBth is also ultimately punished for this. Okay. So, I would say you can talk about all of those points with look like the instant plate the serpent under it. It's brilliant and it also links to the theme of the garden of Eden that you introduced earlier. The serpent is is Satan in that story and tempting Eve towards evil and she is now tempt sorry Lady McBth is now tempting McBth towards evil. Do you want to do the medallion bit from the gunpowder plot? You can. And let me just quickly check if the chat is still working just in case that there's any. While you're checking, the medallion is a coin that was issued after the failure of the gunpowder plot. So, the Catholics had been defeated. And to commemorate James's survival, he issued a coin with the picture of a flower and a serpent underneath it. So, this is another way that Shakespeare is flattering King James. Yes. So, next quotation, never shake that gory locks. Ah, yes. So, I love this one. So, I've told you already when he says these words, whether he's just hallucinating it or whether this is a real ghost, it tells us that McBth has lost the court. He's lost all the things, the nobles, because they know, never shake thy gory locks at me. They know the person who's been killed is Duncan. Even though they're wrong, he's talking about Banquo. They are now convinced that he is confessing to murdering the king. That's the moment that they all turn against him. It is as well divine punishment. So we got this idea that perhaps God is also using the supernatural through Banquo. Now why is that important? Because Banquo was believed to be an ancestor of King James. So portraying Banquo as someone supported by God makes King James supported by God. So this is Banquo's revenge. He doesn't even have to say any words, but he causes McBth to lose the prize of kingship. Okay. So there are two quotations here related to the witches, right? I suggested Ferris foul, but then you mentioned whose horrid image doth unfix my hair. So I'm going to explain why I really like Ferris foul if you decided to go for a witch question in case you get a witch uh question in your exams or supernatural. And then perhaps you could also talk about why you wanted to talk to mention and suggest uh the reference to how Mc Beth is talking about the witches whose horrid image do unfix my hair. Guys, if you get any questions to do the witches or the supernatural, I think ferris fouls fair is a super easy easy quotations to remember but also to write about, right? Because of course remember that the witches are speaking in oxymorons. They are speaking oh also if you ever write about the witches if a witch's question comes up they are speaking in equivocations. They're speaking in riddles and what they're saying here is they are going to be turning good into bad. Bad is good and good is bad. Right? So um or or rather ferris file good is bad and bad is good. Right? They are foreshadowing changing and reversing the natural order. Okay? And remember guys, if you get a question on the supernatural or the witches or you decide to talk about the witches, if you have an opportunity for any of the theme questions, always remember that the play starts with them because Shakespeare wants to firmly establish in our minds that they are agents of chaos. They are going to reverse the natural order of things which is exactly what they do. Now you had a slightly different opinion in terms of um witches quotations and this is the who's horrific. So when McBth says this, the horrid image that doth unfix my hair, it's the image of killing Duncan. And he's asking himself, why am I seeing that? Because the witches have just told me these great things that I'm going to be F of Cordor and that I'm going to be king. These are wonderful things. So why is my mind turning immediately to murder? And the reason I love that is it's not necessarily the witches that are making his mind turn. and he's looking at himself and thinking what is it about me and should I be on guard against myself? This is a wonderful moment where he could have pulled back like Banquo as you said he never tries to go towards that fate. He just lets fate happen. But McBth won't let fate happen. He deliberately thinks like how can I get this now? I'm going to murder Duncan. And I I actually use this as part of my argument to say it's not just Hamasha that's his um fatal sorry it's not just it's not just ambition that's his also his blood lust he falls in love with killing okay that's what his total downfall is but you don't have to argue that at all that's just me okay so outdam spot obviously guys I think outdime spot which is a really nice contrast to on sex me hair here we can see Lady McBth's um ambition being coming to full circle, right? We can see her um facing divine punishment, seeing the spots of blood on her hands, hallucinating and experiencing guilt. I think all the points that I've made relating to Lady McBth and also um the theme of guilt are really really nicely captured in the outdown spot um quotation. So for example guys, if you do get another Lady McBth question this year or some opportunity to write about Lady McBth, say if you get a theme question, always use outdam spot and juxtapose how she is shown as highly ambitious, willing to do anything to gain power when she says on sex me hair versus her um supernatural hallucination being divine punishment for her actions. Yeah. And I I love the fact that it's just one spot that still leads to her killing herself. And you talked about best way of coping with his guilt is just to go and kill everybody and his hands are covered in blood and then he kind of stops feeling guilty. Um, so life is in some ways much cruer to Lady McBth and she Do you think she's punished more because she's a woman? Definitely she's punished more because she's a woman. Guys, remember that of course this play was written in a very patriarchal society, a society controlled by men. And I think Lady McBth especially, I mean to be honest, the only murder she really orchestrates is the king Bango. It's McBth that does that. Then he goes on and has McDuff's family killed. Then he's just on this killing rampage because there's this all these wars, right? But yet it was just one that one murder and she is disproportionately punished and she can't even live by with herself that she then even commits suicide. Right? So, of course, this was a play that was written in a deeply patriarchal society and hence I would say Lady Beth is especially punished for being a woman. Me too. I agree. Um, life is but life is but a walking shadow. So, that whole speech we could have picked any line almost because this is when McBth finally realizes that all his plans have been for nothing and everything that he thought was going to be a joy has now turned to dust. can't enjoy any of it. And this is a brilliant metaphor. So life for him is nothing to enjoy. It's just a shadow. A good life is somewhere else in the sunshine. But the life that he's had as a king is in darkness. Obviously, it's his own darkness. He's brought his own evil towards being king and that's what's ruined it. But I also love the word shadow because this was a joke in with the audience. The shadow is the understudy, the person who plays a role when the main character's ill or doing something else. So Shakespeare is now saying, I tried to have the main part being the king, but I was really only ever the understudy. I I didn't deserve to be where I am. And so he's realized now that he was the wrong person to be king. But even that makes him think life is completely pointless. And this is when he starts to feel nealistic. Nealism means that you don't think there's any point in life. And that is the ultimate divine punishment. So he can't even enjoy living. And then obviously he's going to go to hell. He's not going to enjoy death either. Okay. And the final quotation before obviously guys we answer your final questions. I'm just looking at the time. We do have 10 minutes then. So we're doing quite well for timing. So guys, the final quotation which um obviously if you are thinking and scrambling for last minute McBth quotations would be how both he and Lady McBth who are now dead. Right at the end of the play, Malcolm talks about him being a dead butcher and his wife being fiend like a fiend is um a devilish creature. Right? So this reference to McBTH dead butcher and Lady McBth fiend like queen. The quote being dead butcher and fiend like queen. What this is demonstrating is the consequences of ambition. How we can see that this tragedy is complete. We can see here that this really noble character McBth and his wife have now been reduced to cautionary characters because of their ambition. Brilliant. And it's like the great chain of being as well. They've dropped off it, haven't they? Yeah. So, he's no longer got any status and she's not even human. Yeah. And they're now in hell, right? Which is at the bottom of the great chain of being. Right. So guys, obviously if you want to see how this looks like in a model response, of course, or you follow the chat GBT option, obviously guys, don't forget, I've put in the description box um the links that you can follow to download the model answers that I've written for the McBTH questions. Okay? So, of course, guys, if you have any questions or you want to see these model answers, just click on those description links. Now guys, I'm going to check the chat and see if you guys have any final questions, which I'm obviously going to be directing to you, and I'm also going to be um addressing these questions before wrapping up at 400 p.m. because Mr. Sally's has a play, a very exciting play that he's going to be watching, okay? Whilst you guys are going to be stuck at home studying, he's going to be having a great time watching a play. Yeah, the benefits of age. So guys, I'm just looking at the questions. Are you going to do Romeo and Juliet? Um, probably not, guys. Um, but for those of you guys that literally just want to see Rome and Juliet model answers, just um, click on the description link and you're going to see like one of my previous model answers there, okay? For Romeo and Juliet or Jack and Hyde or any of the other ones, guys. Okay. Um, right. Okay, guys. This um, so let's see, guys. Okay, the the way too many. Wait, what are the predictions, guys? Um, okay. So, the the comments are just going a little bit crazy, guys. We have already talked about predictions in our predictions um video in McBTH. My prediction was Mc Beth. Mine was guilt. Was it guilt? I think. Yeah. I want to say it's guilt. Um but I do distinctly remember I want to be a little bit conservative this year. I think we're going to have a math question. Okay. And you believe it's going to be guilt. Well, when you say believe that's so think with my model answer of guilt, you can use it to answer a math question as well. So that's how I've structured it. Um, so if you prepared guilt, you would also prepare McBTH. You would also prepare Lady McBTH. So with one prediction, you'd cover two characters and one theme. Okay. Right. So guys, I'm going to quickly check and just see. Oh my god. Um, what are the possible Oh my gosh. Okay. Okay. Let me just try and slow this down. Do you need a thesis, guys? You don't need a thesis. Mr. Sales likes one, but I would say that it's not. Um, Mrs. Salies, is your grade nine sensible and actually worthy? I would say yes. Mrs. Sally's grade nine response is definitely sensible. What a question. Um, Inspector Calls, guys, we're not looking at literature paper two today. Do you think McBth and McDuff will come up um or relationship? There's no relationship between McBth and McDuff. You could get a extract which has McBth and McDuff shown, but you're not going to get a question about either McDuff's character or even the relationship between McBTH and McDuff. They don't have a relationship. There is the only time we see Mc Beth and McDuff in the same scene is the final showdown and this is showing Mc Beth being punished and facing his punishment and also him realizing that he's been misled by the witches when they told him no man born of woman shall ever harm McBth and then he realizes oh that means um you know this guy was born with a C-section so I was deceived and that's it but you're not going to get a McBth a mcdaf relationship question and definitely not a mcdaf question okay so what about supernatural listing guys you can definitely get a superal actual question. Um, right. Hang on. So, um, let's see. Can I use McBth was a play? Guys, say McBth is a plate is not context. Okay. Simply saying that McBth was a play is not context. Mr. Sally's, what does context mean? Yeah. So, context means this. What about the time do you need to tell me in order to persuade me of your point of view about the character or theme? Yes. So you'd only ever bring in stuff about the time to prove your point of view about any of the characters or any of the themes. If it doesn't do that, it's just pointless words on a page. Yeah. And the examiners will just ignore it. Okay. So guys, remember context is what was happening at Shakespeare's time that influenced him. Him this being a play was not happening at his time. Okay. This is just the the genre he used to stage this story. Okay. Um, right guys, so we have 5 minutes. I'm going to see what um the chat is kind of moving. If the question is on a specific character and I talk about themes and other characters, is that considered off topic? Okay. So, if a question is on characters, right? So, there's a McBth question, Lady McBth. Is it going off topic if you talk about other characters or themes? Absolutely not. Yeah. In fact, if you want the top grade any character question, you're going to immediately try and bring the themes in to that character because the themes are Shakespeare's ideas and Shakespeare's ideas are where the top marks are. So, always write about the themes, especially in a character question, because it's easy to forget. You can just write about the character without thinking about the themes. Always drag them in. What do you think? Yeah, I would say so. So I would say if it's a character question, stick to that character. Make your life easy. But you must absolutely mention themes. In fact, if anything, if you get, for example, a theme question, talk about characters and then tie it back to the theme. If you get a character question, think about all the different different themes you could link it back to. Of course, if you get a character question like McBTH, you can then talk about his relationship with Lady McBth or if you wanted to for some for whatever reason talk about how he and McDuff, you know, meet or he and Banquo, but it's in connection to that main character. Okay, but you're definitely not going off topic by talking about and linking to theme for a character question. Okay, and vice versa. For a theme question, make sure you talk about the different characters, okay? And again, guys, literally, we've both done grade nine model answers, right? So, you can either go to um the description link I've put in the description box. Download those or you can go on to Mr. Salaz's page and download his model answers or a substack even or my substack. Or substack. Okay. So, make sure you literally you've got those options if you wanted to see how that looks like in a model response. And the other bit of that question was, can we talk about another character if it's just about one? Yeah. And I always think that's really good, especially if you think about it structurally. So, Banquo is there to give us the contrast, the counterpoint to McBTH. When you're writing about Lady McBth, you're always going to talk about how she influences McBth and even how he influences her. So, as long as you pick a character that influences your character, you will always get a higher grade. Yeah. So, you still you still need to talk about the interplay between that main character and the other character. You don't just talk about the other character just by themselves. Yeah. Okay. So, guys, I'm going to take like maybe two more two or three questions and then uh that's really it. Okay. So, um guys, Ed XL guys um all of this information is just as relevant to you guys as a QA. Okay. Okay. So, at XL guys, all the stuff that we literally go over is just as relevant to you guys. By the way, I know that there's other exam board guys that see this um OCR, IGCSE, all of the stuff that we go over is just as relevant to your exam boards. Okay? So, yeah, you can use this information. So, I get asked that question a lot. And Shakespeare's ideas don't change because it's a different exam board and the quotes don't change. It's all exactly the same. So, there's a question, there's two questions I want to merge. One of them is what paragraph structure should I use? And the second question is, should I use obscure quotations? Okay, so paragraph structure and obscure quotes, guys. In terms of paragraph structures, for any of you guys that have been part of my master classes, you will know that I love peel paragraphs. I personally like appeal structure. I love a good pill paragraph and I think you can still still do really well. The reason why I always advocate for peel paragraphs and of course guys, if you want to use other different paragraph structures, you can. But the reason why I always advocate for peel is because guys in the exam you're saying on Monday you have so much to think about right you've got your main characters your themes and so on for McBth but then also guys tomorrow I'm going to be talking about Christmas Carol you've also got to think about the same information but Christmas Carol equally you then need to be able to answer the question you need to make sure you're using information from the extract you then need to do a quick brain scan and then think of all those quotations you're literally having to think about so much If you now layer in a really super complex paragraph structure with lots of different steps, you're only adding more to your plate, right? And for me, I would suggest that appeal paragraph structure literally has the components that your examiners are looking for and the most important component being in your explanation. You're developing context. You're talking about Shakespeare's message. You're you're unpacking um the quotation. You're talking about terminology. So, it's one less thing to think about having a very clear fourstep paragraph structure rather than some of these paragraphs that I see, you know, the different steps are like 12 steps. Obviously, more power to you if you do want to use that long paragraph structure, but in my in my perspective, I personally feel like you already have so much you're juggling in your exam on Monday to then layer in some long complex paragraph structure. I personally am not a massive advocate, but I guess you beg to differ. So I got some different views but also similar. So I completely agree that a complex paragraph structure is just too much to hold on to in the exam. So uh if I were to write the exam question, so expert writers don't use paragraph structures. However, if you need a paragraph structure, it's because you're not sure what's going to get the marks and so having a peeled paragraph structure will really help. I teach PEEP. So it's the PE E are the same, but my P is then write about the author's purpose. All the stuff that we've talked about with the themes, all the context that we've used to try and explain what Shakespeare's ideas are. And the reason I do that is when you write about Shakespeare's purpose, you're always grade seven and above for that bit of your writing. You don't have to use a paragraph structure. You could just write. So the top grade example answers that AQA publish never follow a paragraph structure under exam conditions. Kids can't hold on to it for long. I've written a model essay for this question in PEEP paragraph structures. You can find it on my website mrsenenglish.com if you're interested. Um and you can find out what PEEP looks like. Or this is the most important thing. If you've got a paragraph structure that's worked for you in the mocks, keep that. Don't change it now. Okay. And how about picking obscure quotations, clever quotations to stand out, right? Not picking what the common folk are going to be using, the common unsexme. Is there any merit or value to picking obscure quotations? So, the easy answer is no. Because the examiners aren't looking for way out original ideas. is they just want a logical argument that deals with the text. However, if you are uh really into the text and you know some way out quotes that you can write about and analyze and analyze yeah then do put them in uh because there is a novelty value you know can you imagine an examiner going essay 589 essay yeah and so if they read something they haven't read before they're automatically psychologically likely to want to give you more credit yeah yeah and I was actually making the same argument when I um I created a video on tissue the model response for tissue for those of you guys obviously guys are obviously talking about literature paper one but we're going to obviously be talking about list paper 2 eventually and I made the same argument for tissue I first created a video which literally just shows like your perfect essay on tissue and then I made the argument that guys the moment you start using um poems like that whilst everyone else is using just the same Aussie mandias London and you are able to show an understanding and obvious see my video. I literally just explain it in really simple English and with good quotations. Your examiner who's marking 50, 60, 70 scripts a day and then they see Aussie Mandas 50 times but then tissue or something different once that immediately puts you up in top tier category. you immediately your answer stands out and as long as you're able to bring it home and maybe you have mid answers because it's different psychologically for that examiner they can see that you have a unique take on the same question that like a bunch of students literally write the same points about. Yeah. So, in terms of obscure quotations, it doesn't necessarily like make a massive difference unless you're able to use some really good quotations which you can explain, expand on, and then make some interesting original points because they definitely can stand out to your examiner. Agreed. Okay. Right guys, so um Mr. Sales has to watch his play. Okay. So, we are literally 3 minutes over and um I want to make sure that obviously you are in time for your play. But guys, for those of you that have any extra questions, I will be going live going over uh last minute tips for Christmas Carol tomorrow at the same time at 3 p.m. Mrs. Sally sadly will not be joining in. But if you have any questions, guys, that I haven't gotten around to, just pop them in the uh chat for Christmas Carol. And of course, guys, don't forget, as Mrs. Sally's and I mentioned, if you want anything more, um either head over to his Substack, have a look at, you know, um the past lessons that he's done. But as I mentioned guys, you can also just go into the description box where I have literally links to the past year lessons I've done with the model answers that you can immediately download and then literally revised from Paul McBth and of course Christmas Carol, Jack Hide and so on. Okay. So any final parting words Mr. Sally's try to relax like just don't panic and remember go on the B and bang the more you write the higher your mark. Yes, guys, the more you write, remember guys that you want to just the more you write in your essay, you're just giving your examiner more material to award you marks. Okay, that's something that you know I completely agree. Just write as much as you can and if you have any extra time, write some more. Okay, so just make sure you just write as much as you can. Okay, right guys, thank you so much for joining in and uh we're going to be heading off so that Mr. Sally's can make sure he is ready for his play, guys. Guys, thank you so much for joining.