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Macbeth Five-Paragraph Essay
- This essay will be persuasive. Develop a thesis that you
will prove with supporting evidence only and directly from the
our text. This essay is NOT to be solely your opinion.
Substantiate your claim referring to the play.
- A Works Cited page is unnecessary. As you are using only one
source, the text, I know your source already.
- Do cite the act and scene when summarizing,
paraphrasing or quoting the play. Use Roman numerals, upper case for the act
and lower for the scene (this is the
classic, widely-accepted format).
- Example: Lady Macbeth's character was dynamic.
Change was illustrated via her increasing guilt. During the scene in which
she sleepwalks, she is clearly haunted by the acts she has committed as
she recalls the murders of Duncan, Macduff's family and Banquo (V,i).
- You are free to draw on any elements of the play and its relevance to
today as basis for your thesis. You also may use the resources at the bottom
of this page to assist finding a suitable thesis.
- Respect all elements of the Five-Paragraph
Essay format.
- Your thesis statement must be present in your introduction. If not, and
your stance is unclear, your grade will suffer.
- Formal writing is expected. Review and adhere to
Academic Prose.
- I do not need your outline but developing one, as always, is
highly recommended.
- Save your final draft in MS Word to your English folder as:
macbeth
- Here is the rubric.
Essay Topic Ideas (remember, you must develop a thesis)
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