Themes and imagery

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Cerys Slatter
Themes and imagery
Main Subject
Key stage
Exam board
Category
Drama: Shakespeare for key stage 3
Resource type
Worksheet
Knowledge organisers
Author
William Shakespeare
Authors
William Shakespeare
Genre
Tragedy
Character
Macbeth
Title
Macbeth

A revision worksheet with textual references organised by the play's themes and imagery. The themes covered are: 

  • darkness
  • weather
  • animals
  • clothing
  • ambition
  • kingship
  • supernatural
  • the unnatural
  • gender
  • disease and sickness
  • appearance vs reality.

This is a really useful revision resource and one for students to keep with them as they read the play.

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