It is important to show your awareness of the genre of a text. Macbeth is above all a drama, intended to make its impact in performance on the stage.
This can sometimes get forgotten when you are reading the play from a book in class or studying at home! When writing on Macbeth in your critical essays for Higher English, you should:
An example table of how generic conventions of tragedy are used in Othello, very useful for creating your own version based on Macbeth in preparation for your upcoming essay