The Witches.......

I think the witches are important to the play because they start the play of. They tell Macbeth and Banquo their furtues which sets the play into motion. I think this is important because otherwise if we hadn't heard the prediction and then Macbeth and Lady Macbeth killed the king anyway we wouldn;t feel any sort of sorrow for them at all, where as we can half and half sympathise with them for killing him and then the others. But it also raises the important question, which is " If the witches had never told Macbeth that he would be king, would he of killed the king????" it makes you question Macbeths motives, because Banquo hasn't forced his sons into the king chair he is waiting paitently for it too happen. It makes you question whether you think Macbeth should of left it and fallen into the king's chair by chance or by his own forceful nature.
When "Hecat" then shouts at the witches for telling Macbeth she says "hath been but for a wayward son, spitrful and wrathful, who, as others do, loves for his own ends, not for you" which makes you think that he probably would of done it anyway because he is a spiteful person who only wants to do things for his own self.
this is why i think the witches are important becasue they raise lots of questions for people to think about Macbeth.

Act 1. . . . . . .

"1. Setting in a castle."

Although the play starts of with the witches in the forest, is soon then changes to the scenes in the castle, the castle is also where the murders happens, this adds to the Gothic nature, because it appears to be night-time in a lot of the scenes.

"2. An atmosphere of mystery and suspense"

Shakespeare includes a lot of imagery in act one, The tales of war and then the witches predicting the future creates imagery for the audience. in Act 1 Scene 3 the stage directions Shakespeare has given when the witches enter is thunder, this could create a suspense as thunder would be seen as bad news and you would predict that something bad is about to happen. They way the witches also leave the scene adds suspense as well as they just suddenly disappear.

"3. An ancient prophecy

This happens in act one with the witches, as they predict the future of Macbeth and Banquo. This prophecy is highly needed as it now sets the whole plot into order as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth now plan on how to kill the king.

The first act in macbeth plays the main part in the play by setting the plot line into order, it helps the reader to se both sides to macbeth and lady macbeth by using different elements of gothic literature

Coursework Progress...

I have decided to do my coursework on "where rainbows end" by Ceclia Ahern and "The Sorrow's of Young Werther" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. These books are both epistolary novels, which means they take the form of letters and emails in their writing instead of plain paragraph.
I am going to do these books as i think the use of letters is important to the structure of the book. My question is going to be based upon the use of letters within the novels and how they correspond with the characters.

Marxist Approach

The Lord of the Flies.

In the lord the of the lies there are a lot of marxist concepts. When the boys land on the island there is a lot of confusion and panic but also a sense of control as the island is seen as a paradise onto themselves, but soon they see that they need food and shelter to survive. Immediatly one of the boys (Ralph) takes control and the others listen to him. Ralph then appoints the "bigger boys" to be the hunters and the "smaller boys" to make the home and shelters. This take the idea of marxism into order as it is immediatly putting people down due to their apprant status within the group of boys. This sense of status also happens when the food is divided between the boys as the bigger boys get more food then the smaller ones.
The power the bigger boys exert over the smaller boys is inevitable as they are seen as smaller and weaker, although they are more likely to be of the same background in society the bigger boys have the power.
In the end when jack and piggy leave the bigger boys and try and make their own society. Because they have started the own society of boys the other society of the "bigger boys" get angry and end up killing piggy, this shows the marxist approach as it shows that whoever has the power will in the end be better off then the lower society.