MACBETH: Complete Essay Plan That Fits EVERY Possible Question (2026)

Guys, welcome to another video. You've

got Mr. Everything English. And today is

a super important video. Today is a big

video. Today is the video that was the

video last year in the GCSE exams. It

saved so many year 11s and it will be

the video for this year's GCSE exams.

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Now

last year I gave the year 11s six quotes

and I said to them that these six quotes

are the only quotes that they need to

learn for their exams.

This year I was feeling a little bit

generous. I am going to give you guys

eight quotes. In this video guys, I'm

going to be covering eight quotes from

McBth and I'm going to show you

everything you need to know about these

quotes. We're going to go over the

devices, the context, and more

importantly, I'm going to show you how

you analyze these codes to fit every

single question. Now, for your GCSEs,

out of these eight, you only need two to

fit. Now, if me saying that is confusing

you, then you've probably been sleeping

under a rock for the past 2 years. In

your exam, you will be given a question

and you will be given an extract. You

will write four paragraphs. Two

paragraphs from the extract and two

paragraphs from memory. The two

paragraphs that we're going to do from

memory will hopefully be using two of

the quotes that I'm going to give you in

this video. That is why guys, out of the

eight quotes that I'm going to give you,

you only need to be able to use two. And

guys, they're going to fit absolutely

perfectly. Finally guys, before we

begin, if anyone says to you that you

need to learn 15, 20, 30, 40 quotes, it

is for one of three reasons. Number one,

they hate you. Number two, they can't do

what I do and they don't know how to

make one quote fit lots of different

questions. Or number three, guys, they

haven't understood what we are preparing

for. It isn't about how much you know

about McBTH. It's what you can do with

what you know. All right, guys. Now,

we're going to switch over to to the

board. We're going to go over every

single quote in super super detail. Do

get a pen, do get a paper, and do make

notes. So, by the end of this video, you

were ready to go for your exam when it

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Behind me on the board are the eight

quotes from McBTH that fit every single

essay. Each quote has the quotation, has

a technique, has something to zoom into,

and it has context. So, each quote has

everything that you need for that

particular quote. Now, let's start with

quote number one, guys. This is the

quote. This is the one. This quote fits

every single question about McBth. The

quote is heat oppressed brain. And Paul

McBth says this at the start of act two

scene one just before he goes off and

kills Duncan. Now when it comes to

techniques guys,

this quote is a siloquy. Saliloquy comes

under form. And what is a siloquy?

A saliloquy is when the character

reveals their thoughts out loud. So

basically, nobody is supposed to be

hearing this. It's their private inner

thoughts. This is where you get to know

the real character.

Then the context that we're going to use

is Freud and the id. Now Freud is the

guy who said that as a human there are

three parts of our brain. ID is one part

of the brain. One part of our id is our

instinct to worship. Every human being

worships something. Some people worship

money, some people worship footballers,

some people worship houses, some people

worship cars, but everyone worships

something. In this quote, you can argue

that McBth is a slave to his worship of

his desires. And for our zooming in

guys, we're going to zoom into the

foreshadowing. Now, what do you do with

this quote guys? The quote reads as

follows. The quote reads as heat

oppressed brain. This is what Mr. McBth

is complaining about in this part of the

court. Now let's take it back to front.

The brain, this thing that lives in our

minds is the most important thing that

we have. Your brain controls your ideas.

And what defines you is your ideas. Who

are you? What makes you you is the ideas

that you carry. So if you have nothing

up here then that will show in your

life. But if your brain is firing and

your brain is alive then this will show

in your actions. So McBth isn't

complaining about his hand. He's not

complaining about his legs. He's not

complaining about anything other than

his brain, his ideas, his thoughts. Now

our thoughts are what determine our

actions. So, for example, if you don't

like me, you're going to turn this video

off because your thoughts will determine

your actions. When I see a chocolate

cake and I think, "M, that looks

delicious." I think and then I go eat.

Now, McBth is complaining that the one

thing that should be his, the one thing

that should be free is being oppressed.

He says his brain is being oppressed.

Now, what does the word oppressed mean?

Oppressed is when something is

controlled in a negative way. It's when

something is being controlled in a

negative way. So, McBth's no idiot.

McBth understands that there's something

going on here.

And then he says his brain is being

controlled by heat. Now, is somebody

standing there with a Bunson burner over

McBth's head? Obviously not. What is

this heat a symbol of? What is the heat

a metaphor of? Guys, who is applying the

heat to the brain of McBth? And why does

Shakespeare use the word heat? Guys, if

you apply heat to plastic, what can you

do? You can change, you can alter, you

can mold it. So, somebody is trying to

change and alter and mold McBth's mind.

Now, who in the world is trying to do

this? Unless you've been sleeping under

a rock for the past two years. In act

one, there are two characters that are

trying to mold the mind of McBth. There

are two characters that are trying to

apply heat to the brain of McBth because

there are two characters that want to

control McBth for their own good. Number

one, the witches. And number two, Lady

McBth. These two characters, they go on

and they go on and they go on.

Constantly going on at McBth in the

whole of act one.

Noise, noise, noise, noise. The guy,

guys, is mentally finished by the end of

act one. He's fried. He has nothing left

to give.

>> I've got nothing left. I've got nothing

left.

Mentally, guys, he's finished. Lady

McBth and the witches. The witches tell

him about the prophecies. Lady McBth,

she says to him, "You're a coward if you

don't do what I say and all my spirits

in your ears and look like the innocent

flower, but be the serpent." It's just

constant noise. Constant noise. Constant

noise

over and over and over again. Guys,

honestly, McBth should have divorced

Lady McBth in act one and lived a life

of peace. But because she goes on and on

and on because the witches go on and on

and on. The noise guys, the constant

noise in McBT's mindba, it drives him

crazy. And by the beginning of act two,

scene one, this brave a powerful

soldier,

the guy who was chopping up people in

act one, he's sitting there by himself,

mentally finished.

He says my brain is gone. My ideas are

gone. My mind is oppressed.

But the important part is he says this