1. Who would you rather have on your side in a fight/ be mates with?

2. Bringing it all together!
Look through the next few slides and use the info to get your ideas together. You can start working on your planning sheet as well. Assessment Objectives: AO1 – Ideas about ‘strong feelings’ and evidence AO2 – Analysing how the texts are written. AO3 – Links you can make AO4 – Context; how different people interpret the poem / play

3. Tasks ALL – COMPLETE … PART 1 PART 2 PART 4 PART 5
PART 3 will allow more depth of discussion

4. What to include in the introduction: Task 1: Complete the questions!
PART 1 – INTRO and FORM
What to include in the introduction: Task 1: Complete the questions!
What texts will you be looking at?
When were they written?
How do they need to interest the audience?
‘Macbeth’?
‘The Laboratory’?
How are they broadly similar? Different?
What are the main ‘strong feelings’ you want to discuss?
What similarities are there in the way they are written?

5. Form Task 2: Write a few sentences comparing the forms
Macbeth – iambic pentameter
‘The laboratory’
Similar to real speech but has a ‘bounce to it’. Useful in ‘unsex me here’ speech. Makes it seem dramatic; gives it rhythm. Soliloquy – when she talks to audience
12 stanzas
Monologue – 1st person
Bouncy ‘anapaestic’ meter including AABB rhymes
Takes you on a journey
Task 2: Write a few sentences comparing the forms
They are similar because …
They are different because …

6. PART 2 Before the murder! Compared with start of ‘The Laboratory’ AO1; AO3 Task 3: Find quotes from the poem / play! OR add a comment / Change the colour to show you feel you could discuss the point.
Act 1 Scene 5 – The ‘unsex me here’ speech’
Links to the start of ‘The Laboratory’ Stanzas I-V (VI?)
Strong feelings
Ambition - Lady M desire to do anything to support husband or is it just for her?
Using someone else
Excitement
Secrecy and deception
Seems powerful
link to context – Contrast between 11th Century Scotland – Elizabethan – role of women. AO4
Strong feelings
Wants power
Excitement
Desire to do something unusual
Using someone else
Secrecy and deception
Seems powerful
Link to context – Browning chooses unusual character. Wants to challenge Victorian view of women as domestic ‘angels’! AO4

7. TASK 4: Find examples for each!
PART 2 cont… How does Shakespeare present strong feelings? How does he use words / phrases that interest the audience? AO1; AO2
Macbeth (Act 1 scene 5)
‘The Laboratory’ I - VI
Imperatives (Commands)
supernatural language
strong language
Changing feminine images
snake and flower image
Lots of exclamation marks!
‘Supernatural language
Imperatives
Strong language
Words / phrases to do with secrecy.
Lots of exclamation marks!
TASK 4: Find examples for each!

8. TASK 5 Now choose an example from each text to compare!
Handy sentence starters In ‘Macbeth’ Shakespeare uses … Browning also … In both texts, the writers use … The way they use them is similar because … They are different because …

9. PART 3: Section 2 – After the murder
PART 3: Section 2 – After the murder! Act 2, scene 2 vs Stanzas VI - VIII
Macbeth
The middle of ‘The Laboratory’ Stanzas VI - VIII
Lady M commands M
Lady M seems more powerful but also nervous
Determined
Also nervous/ panicky?
Shakespeare uses questions, short sentences and exclamation marks!
Secrecy and Deception
Darkness
Woman commanding the man
Desire for power
Panicky?
Doubts herself?
Lots of questions and exclamation marks
Short sentences
Is she having doubts?
Reality setting in?

10. PART 3 cont …Compare the way the two women are presented in this middle section.
Strong feelings (AO1)
In ‘Macbeth’ .. whereas …
One similarity is …
They are both …
One difference is …
Language (AO2)
Both writers use …
Shakespeare shows Lady Macbeth’s nervous feelings by using ..
Similarly Browning …
EXT: Can you think of more than one way of looking at these scenes / sections?

11. PART 4 Madness!! Act 5 scene 1 vs Stanzas IX - XII
Macbeth
The Laboratory stanzas IX-XII
Strong feelings? AO1
Strong feelings from earlier making her mad
Lacks power
Lonely
Guilt
Suicidal?
Strange behaviour
Talks to herself
Strong feelings? AO1
Seems more manic
Strange behaviour
Seems less sane?
Who is she talking to?
‘You may kiss me ..’
What does this suggest?
Left open-ended
Talking to herself?
TASK 7 – Find evidence/ add comments / highlight if you think you could write about it!

12. PART 4 cont … How are the feelings presented?
Macbeth
The Laboratory
Use of imagery to do with blood.
Talk of hell, e.g. ‘hell is …’
Links to earlier ideas, e.g. mentioning ‘water’ ‘cleaning’
Talks of death
Short sentences
Punctuation
Short sentences
Punctuation
Words / phrases to do with death.
TASK 7: FIND QUOTES!

13. How the feelings are presented
Comparing the endings … TASK 8 – What do you think about the way the women and their feelings are presented?
Strong feelings
There is clear similarity in that …
The biggest difference is …
On the one hand ..
You could say …
You could also say …
How the feelings are presented
One similarity is …
It is interesting to note that both writers use ..
Again we see …
EXT: Can you think of more than one way of looking at these scenes / sections?

14. PART 5 Sum up ideas about context / background
Macbeth How does audience feel about the ‘end’ of Lady M? Elizabethan? Modern? What might Shakespeare have been saying about women who act in this way? Why include a woman who is so different? See speech by Macbeth (Act 5 scene 5) How do we respond to the ending?
The Laboratory How does Victorian reader feel at the end of the poem? How were women seen at that point in time? What is Browning saying? Why include a woman who is so different? How do we respond to the ending?

15. Conclusion (AO1; AO2; AO3; AO4)
Lots of similarities Some differences Strong feelings? Give an interesting example Language? Any patterns?? Themes – Can you link the texts in terms of women? Ideas? Your response?

16. Different approaches
Introduce the essay. Write about bits of ‘Macbeth’ e.g. Before the murder; after the murder; the ‘madness’ scene. Use ‘The Laboratory’ to compare after each section. Sum up at the end.
Introduce the essay. Write about the different strong feelings. Write about techniques. Compare the two as you write. Sum up at the end.
Introduce the essay. Write about strong feelings and techniques in ‘Macbeth’. Write about the strong feelings and techniques in ‘The Laboratory’. Compare at the end. Sum up.
NB: You have to talk about language, background etc… all the way through.
Which approach will you use?