Rubric for Evaluating Essays
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Blank paper
Incorrect purpose, mode, audience
Correct purpose, mode, audience
Correct purpose, mode, audience
Correct purpose, mode, audience
Foreign language
Brief, vague
Some elaboration
Moderately well elaborated
Effective elaboration
Illegible, incoherent
Unelaborated
Some details
Clear, effective language
Consistent organization
Not enough content to score
Rambling
Gaps in organization
Organized (perhaps with brief digressions)
Sense of completeness, fluency
 
Lack of language control
Limited language control
   
 
Poor organization
     
 
In Shakespeare’s plays, soliloquies reveal a character’s true thoughts and feelings and often indicate how circumstances are developing for the character. Write an essay in which you explain what the following soliloquy from The Tragedy of MacBeth reveals about Lady Macbeth’s situation and state of mind in Act III, Scene ii.

Nought’s had, all’s spent, / Where our desire is got without content: / ‘Tis safer to be that which we destroy / Than be destruction dwell in doubtful joy.