MacBeth

MacBeth Your response should demonstrate your understanding of the quotation provided, and be able to set the quotation within the context of the play as a whole within the terms set by the question. A high quality response will be persuasive, critical, analytical, knowledgeable about the overall themes and ideas of the texts, and be able to demonstrate a good understanding of the text's details. No secondary source research is required for this task. ? Work needs to be correctly and appropriately referenced, using the Chicago (footnotes) or MLA style. Macbeth: Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding. If 't be so, For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind; For them, the gracious Duncan have I murdered; Put rancours in the vessel of my peace Only for them; and mine eternal jewel Given to the common enemy of man, To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings! 3.1.60–69 Critically analyse Macbeth’s understanding of his own agency in the course of the play, as it is exemplified in this passage .