Year 12 IB Extended Essays 2017

Table of Contents

Abstract ......................................................................................................................................1

Acknowledgements....................................................................................................................2

Introduction................................................................................................................................3

Discussion ..................................................................................................................................6

Thematic Analysis..................................................................................................................6

Love as a Negative Force ...................................................................................................6

Characterisations of Madness .............................................................................................7

Absence of Paternal Power.................................................................................................8

King Lear..............................................................................................................................10

Macbeth................................................................................................................................12

Literary Devices ...................................................................................................................14

Conclusion ...............................................................................................................................16

Bibliography ............................................................................................................................17

Appendices...............................................................................................................................20

Acknowledgements

I would like to acknowledge my Extended Essay supervisor for advising me in navigating the

formatting of my Extended Essay, and in refining and addressing my topic in the most efficient

way. I would like to acknowledge a former English teacher of mine for discussing with me the

minutiae of Shakespeare’s works and the impact of Elizabethan times, and for bestowing upon

the deep interest in the play Macbeth which inspired me to devise this particular topic.

Extended Essay

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