Tuesday, May 5, 2014

Essay Writing Details

Body Action is complex

Thesis - Macbeth is manipulated, which affects our ability to see him as guilty - by the supernatural worses at fork in the story, which includes Lady Macbeth, the witches and the demonic apparitions the witches conjure up in Act 4. 

AoD 1 - something or someone manipulates him and he resists and this somehow shows that he is not as responsible as he would be if it was all idea - Lady Macbeth

AoD 2 - some other supernatural element(s) else manipulates him and he is pushed further into some kind of problems that contribute to his inability to make good decisions and discern what is right and wrong - Supernatural Forces

Point - Assertion - Idea

Lady Macbeth manipulates Macbeth and plays on his weaknesses and takes advantage of the ambition he has as a knight, a lord and a man in his culture. (describe how that works)

She thinks he’s too weak to push properly forward. “he’s too full of the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way, etc” - explain how this works

Suddenly, I”m into Exploration of that point or assertion

Make sure that I’m leading into the actual manipulation - how does she do it? how does it affect him? how does he respond? What is the way that her actions generate the reaction that is our point - HOW - Explaining the illustration - you’re explaining how the reference works

HERE THERE BE LEVEL 4s

LINKAGE - CONNECTION - WHY

Okay, so if as he does X and Y which results in his reactions Z and Z1, then we have to think about how she sets it motion, she makes the plan, she tunes the plan, she controls his behaviour. 

We have to think about how he resists, how he begins to hallucinate from the stress - which shows that he’s really not that into the evil plan - he’s already cracking, etc

I might here end off by referring to the dagger, which would be a nice transition to talking about the witches and the supernatural.