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Themes

  • Violence
  • Kingship and tyranny
  • Masculinity and gender
  • Guilt and conscience
  • Ambition and power
  • Appearance and reality
  • Nature and order
  • Fate and the supernatural

Every theme, scene by scene

Revise the densest scenes first: 3.4, 1.5 and 1.7. 1.5 and 1.7 have been set as AQA extracts. A scene where several themes meet gives you evidence for almost any question.

Past paperUse the arrow keys to move between scenes and themes. Enter opens the theme.
Ambition and powerAppearance and realityNature and orderFate and the supernaturalViolenceKingship and tyrannyGuilt and conscienceMasculinity and gender
  • AbsentCentral
  • Set as an AQA extract