Embedding Quotations
Things to know about using quotations… A quotation cannot be a stand alone sentence when used in an essay. You should build the quotation into your own writing A quotation does not argue for you. You need to explain why it’s there.
Quotation: “I have suppe’d full with horrors/Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,/Cannot once start me” (Shakespeare V, v, 14).
Not Embedded and Crappy: By the end of the play, Macbeth has witnessed so much violence and death that he has become emotionally numb. “I have suppe’d full with horrors/Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,/Cannot once start me”(Shakespeare V, v, 14). This quotation shows us that Macbeth no longer experiences fear as he once did.
Embedded weakly and Crappy: By the end of the play, Macbeth has witness so much violence and death that he has become emotionally numb. Macbeth says, “I have suppe’d full with horrors/Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,/Cannot once start me”(Shakespeare V, v, 14). This quotation shows us that Macbeth no longer experiences fear as he once did.
Embedded and Clear By the end of the play, Macbeth has witness so much violence and death that he has become emotionally numb. The sound of a woman’s scream, instead of frightening Macbeth, simply causes him to remark, “I have suppe’d full with horrors/Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,/Cannot once start me” (Shakespeare V, v, 14). Macbeth no longer experiences fear as he once did.