First Step: Develop your opinion! (When a character is given power or the opportunity for power, does it corrupt their morals? Always? Sometimes? Never?)
Second Step: Choose one or more characters from Macbeth and discuss whether power always corrupts, sometimes corrupts, or never corrupts.
Characters to Consider:
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Banquo
Macduff
Fleance
The Witches
Third Step: Use the outline below to help create the structure of the paper before
writing your essay.
Five Paragraph Essay Outline
Introduction Paragraph
Hook:
Background info:
Thesis: (see note and example below)*
Body Paragraph 1
Main Idea 1 –
Topic Sentence:
Supporting Details:
Textual evidence:
Transition Sentence:
Body Paragraph 2
Main Idea 2 –
Topic Sentence:
Supporting Details:
Textual evidence:
Transition Sentence:
Body Paragraph 3
Main Idea 3 –
Topic Sentence:
Supporting Details:
Textual evidence:
Transition Sentence:
Conclusion Paragraph
Transition to final ideas
Restate thesis
Summarize main points
Powerful last sentence
*Thesis statement: A thesis statement tells the main points of what you will write about. For this essay, it should be the last sentence in the introduction paragraph.
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