Mastering Kingship in Macbeth: Key Quotes and Exam Insights

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science. Um, you guys have been messaging me. I'm getting the feeling that a lot of you guys are thinking that

kingship is coming up. And is it going to come up? Who knows? But let's cover it together just so we're prepped for

it. Now guys, when it comes to my predictions, I will release my predictions probably on the last day of

April, um, two weeksish before the exams. Now, kingship, what is kingship and how

do you talk about kingship, guys? Kingship is essentially the idea of the king. Now, that might sound

weird. Is that it, guys? Kingship is the idea of the king. Now go back in a time machine. How did the people of the

Jacobian era view the king guys? The king was the guy. The king was the guy. He was the man. Today guys, the king

don't really do much. We don't really have much kind of clout for the king. So don't view the king with the way we view

the king of today. Guys, back in those days, they believed that the king was a man chosen by God. Call blime me.

Imagine that. They believe this guy was chosen by God. He was God's representative on earth. And as a

result, the king symbolized power. The king symbolized justice. And everyone who was against religion, cough cough,

the witches, everyone who was against this was against the king by default. And if you were able to destroy

the king, you weren't just destroying a man, you were destroying an whole idea of religion, of power, of justice. And

that is why the king the king or kingship was super important because those who wanted to become the king in

becoming the king they became the most important the most powerful person in the kingdom. And those who were able to

destroy the king were not able to just destroy one man but they were able to destroy an entire belief system an

entire kingdom. That is how you view kingship. It is not just about McBth. It is not just about Duncan. But it is

about the symbol of what society believed to be amazing, to be good or to be wrong, and to be

devilish. Now, how would we talk about kingship in an exam? I'm going to give you a full essay plan that beautifully

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Let's say in your exam on May the 12th, the question comes up, how is the idea of kingship presented in mcbth? You can

literally use these four paragraphs on my on the screen behind me to talk about kingship. How? Paragraph number one,

guys, is my favorite, my go-to. It is McBth's siloquy. And this is before McBth killed King Duncan. This is before

McBth kills King Duncan and it is in act two scene one and he's sitting there and he's complaining about his heat

oppressed brain. My brain is mashed. My brain is being controlled. My brain is being manipulative

manipulated. And this is a silicquy as my technique. And when I zoom in I could zoom into the oxymoron oppressed brain

because your brain is supposed to be free. Your thoughts are supposed to be free, not

controlled. Now, how could I link this to kingship? There's so many ways you can

link it, guys. So many ways. Firstly, McBth. What does it show about McBth, guys? It shows how the desire for power,

the desire for kingship, what has it done to McBth is completely destroyed the man. Not physically but

mentally. He has become an absolute weak character. He's complaining. My brain is being controlled. My brain is being

manipulative. All for what? All because of this desire to become the king. Look, but at the same time, look at how much

he's willing to sacrifice. Because he doesn't stop. He goes and kills the king even though he

knows he's being controlled and that he knows it's not good for him. It's a doublefold. Number one, it shows how

desperate he was to become the king, but at the same time, it shows how much he was willing to sacrifice to become the

king. He accepts that he's being controlled, but he's okay with it. The third thing, guys, you could

talk about the great chain of beings. Why is Makbet suffering? Why is Makbet struggling? Because in the Jacobian era,

they believed that the king was chosen. So the king was chosen by God and then the king's sons would become

the kings after him. In McBth trying to kill Duncan, he's almost destroying that line, that chain of being, and he's

wedging himself in. He's not the rightful heir to the throne and that is why he is suffering so

much. You could use also this quote to talk about Lady McBth and uh the witches. For Lady McBth guys, you could

talk about the idea that her ambition in making McBth king relied upon the impact that it had for her. By default it made

her powerful because McBth became the king. She became the queen. And for the witches when it comes

to heat oppressed brain guys it shows you what their target is. Everyone says right. McBth is

ambitious. McBth is ambitious. Everyone says that. Okay fine. But why did the witches choose him? Cuz Banquo is also

ambitious. Makdaf is also ambitious. Why him? because he had the coonas. He had what it required to do the deed to

become the king. And they saw that the witches chose their man perfectly. But now here's the question. Why did they

want to choose McBth? Not because they had a beef with McBth, but because they had a beef with what the kingship

represents. The king is a symbol of God. The witches are a symbol of Satan in using McBth to take out the king. O they

have taken out their biggest and strongest enemy. That is how you talk about

kingship when it comes to that first quote. Second quote act four scene one something wicked this way comes

juosition. Why? Because the witches are calling McBth wicked. Chamomorphism they're giving McBth the feature of an

object something. They are dehumanizing him. Now, how could you use this quote to talk about kingship in McBth? Guys,

look at what McBth has done to kingship. The king is supposed to be God's man on earth. The king is supposed

to be pure. The king is supposed to be powerful. Yet, McBth is the opposite of all of these things. In act four, scene

one with a begging bowl, he goes to the witches saying, "Please help me. Give me more

prophecies. I need your help. Tell me my future. This is not McBth. This is the king. This is the king of the kingdom

who represents God going to the witches with a begging bowl. How does that make sense? How is

that possible? How? How? How? How? How? How? That's like seeing your head teacher

selling drugs on the corner of the street. It just doesn't make sense. How can that happen? How could this happen?

And that is why you want to make the point about what McBth does to the idea of the king. McBth gets the idea of the

king, puts it at the bottom of his shoe, and he drags it through the mud. He ruins the idea of kingship. He destroys

kingship. And that is emphasized in this quote. They call the king wicked,

evil. It's almost as though the king is the devil. No longer is the king a symbol of

justice, a symbol of God. He's the complete opposite. And that's what happens when you're not the rightful

heir to the throne. Paragraph number three. Instruments of darkness tell us truths only to betray us in deepest

consequence. How could you use this quote to talk about kingship in McBTH? I would use it in a very simple

way. The witches from the very beginning they knew what they were doing. Nothing ever happened by

accident. They chose McBth on purpose. They said certain things to McBth on purpose because they set McBth up to

fail because the instruments of darkness tell us truths only to betray us in deepest consequence. And this is why I

want you guys to look at this quote not just a quote as in the witches targeted McBth. No, the witches in

targeting McBth targeted the king. They did not have a beef with McBth. They had a beef with the king.

And it shows you guys that from the very beginning, the witches were focused. They set out to destroy kingship. And

therefore, guys, kingship in McBth is presented as the most powerful thing because if you were able to destroy

that, society would crumble. And it does. The moment Duncan dies, it's all destroyed. Malcolm leaves, Donald Bane

leaves, McDuff, McDuff goes to England. The society crumbles. Order is

gone because it was held together by the king. So in targeting McBth, the witches show us how they focus and they target

kingship like a sniper. Boom. They take out kingship. And it just so happened at

that time the king was Duncan. You could replace King Duncan with King I remember chicken and chips and they would have

taken him out. Paragraph number four. How would you use he and him from the nave to the chops? Boom. To become

and link it to kingship. This is how McBth is described to us right at the beginning.

And this is what gives McBth a promotion. The king after hearing about this makes McBth fain of Cordor. This is

the man that the witches target to take out the king and to become the king. How would I use this

quote? It shows you guys the kind of man a Jacobian society wanted to be their king. A weakling couldn't do it. It was

not a job for the faint-hearted. To be the king, you had to almost be quite

vicious, be quite cold-hearted, be powerful. And that's what McBth shows us. And that's why the

witches chose McBth. That's why King Duncan was so happy when he learns about the kind of man McBTH is. That's what

they love. And what they love is what bites them in the backside. But the point you want to make here guys is that

kings and kingship and power was reserved for men of might, for men of power, for men who are merciless, for

men who are vicious. Because patriarchy and power and kingship all go

together. To be the king, you must be a strong powerful man. And that is how that last quote

should be viewed. Guys, these four quotes, whether you use all of them, whether you use one of them or two of

them, let's say in your exam you get a question about kingship, the idea of the king, the idea of power. You can easily

use two of these and make it fit. Kingship, guys, people are scared of it. I think kingship is a really easy

question. If you look at kingship the way I've described it, don't be scared of it. Welcome it because it's a lovely

question because it is the pillar of the book. Sorry, it is the pillar of the play

McBth. Kingship is what everyone fights for. McBth, Lady McBth, the witches, McDuff, Malcolm, Dolan Bane, they are

all fighting for that. It doesn't mean they want to be the king. It means in one way or another, some of them are

trying to destroy it. Some of them are trying to keep it up like Makdaf. Makdaf doesn't want to be the king but he wants

to hold up the idea of the king. But the witches on the other hand want to topple it over and destroy it.

All the characters guys in one way or another have a link to the idea of kingship. But it because it's the glue

that holds the entire society together. All right guys, use it, don't use it, tweak it, change it. I hope the video

helped. It's be to everything English.