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Analysis 1 for Shakespeare asks you to come at Macbeth with a practical and critical eye. In this written assessment, you should examine a particularly suggestive section (a soliloquy would work just fine, if it is substantive enough for analysis), a scene, an area that moves the plot, and discuss its significance to the play's overall conflict as you determine it. You should use terminology relevant to the study of a literary or dramatic work to give your analysis relevance and context. Think about it: we've talked about significant ideas and we've talked about particular elements of poetry and drama, such as imagery, metaphor, and alliteration, and these items work really well when you are identifying important quotes or aspects of the work for use in analysis. Sound patterns may provide clues to ideas Shakespeare may be emphasizing.
Consider how you should go about this, though. What sort of work is Macbeth? Even though this may be obvious, you should consider how the type of work shapes your decisions. Do elements of poetry and drama assist you in understanding the significance of your chosen passage to Macbeth as a whole?

Note the Critical Thinking elements of this assignment requires you to support your conclusions with “adequate and persuasive” evidence. How will quoting from the play serve this purpose in the context of the assignment?

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Assessed Course Ability
5. Literary Analysis: the ability to synthesize acts of analysis in the preceding abilities and communicating that analysis – primarily via the essay but can also be through oral presentations, performances, or other media.

5.1 Level 1: Critically reflects on their reading of Shakespeare's works.
5.2 Level 1: Evaluates the significance of specific literary passages to the works of Shakespeare using appropriate terminology.

Assessed General Education Abilities

1. Communication
The ability to effectively articulate and communicate thoughts and ideas through writing and speech, and the ability to listen meaningfully and effectively.
1. Level 2: communicates with sophistication and complexity in the context of an academic discipline

2. Critical Thinking
The process of evaluating information and concepts, identifying and analyzing relationships, and drawing and justifying reasonable inferences and conclusions in order to gain knowledge and insight, solve problems, and make decisions.

2.3. Draws inferences and conclusions that are logical and supported by evidence

2.3.3. Level 3: supports conclusions with adequate and persuasive evidence