Grade 9 Lesson: Macbeth's Fears Act 3 Scene 1

This lesson covers key extracts, extensive analysis and questioning of the scene and possible extracts, key quotes with grade 9 analysis notes, critical theorists, as well as a mock question for a writing task.

Quotes include:
Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep’, the innocent sleep
To be thus is nothing;
But to be safely thus.–Our fears in Banquo Stick deep
The thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?–
What, will these hands ne’er be clean?

Works towards:
Starting with this extract, how is fear presented in the play?
or
How are Macbeth’s fears presented throughout the play?