Year 12 IB Extended Essays 2017

dissolution of Macbeth’s sanity, framed by the deep guilt and questioning of his own actions.

Shakespeare’s preoccupation with the supernatural is implemented in his works through his

use of madness in characters. His depiction of ‘paranormal’ events as fabrications of the brain;

asks the question of whether the bizarre events are true occurrences within the plot or simply

the hallucinations of the characters.

Macbeth seeing the Ghost of Banquo , by Théodore Chassériau (1854)

Extended Essay

ENGLISH A1

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