If it's true that Shakespeare wrote Macbeth to teach readers the lesson that too much ambition how Macbeth had to become king is wrong, there would be enough reasons on why people might agree or disagree with what Shakespeare's exact message was for creating Macbeth, but the lesson of too much ambition I would agree with that. As for Nietzsche, who disagreed and said he claims Shakespeare actually admired Macbeth's ambition. ... You look back to the beginning of the play at Macbeth was the kind of person who would never kill anyone for power. ... Thought through all this maybe t...

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"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.... In Shakespeare's Macbeth, Lady Macbeth serves as a complete counterexample against those biases. ... To beguile the time, Look like the time. ... Look like th' innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.... And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool....

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Exploring a ruthless reality, William Shakespeare's Macbeth highlights human nature's desire for power, and the lengths one will go to obtain it. ... Shakespeare's characterization of the key narrative figures, use of imagery and symbolism, depicts the respective roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in the ensuing tragedy. ... " Lady Macbeth further denigrates Macbeth's masculinity; she manipulates "brave" Macbeth's manhood and patriotic sense of glory and power, in telling him "when you durst do it, then you were a man.... Shakespeare created a manipu...

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At the beginning of the play "Macbeth", written by Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth can be perceived as a manipulative and deeply ambitious person, which implies an overall sinister-like quality. ... Lady Macbeth insulted her husbands manhood stating: "What beast was't then that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man..."... Through persuasion and criticism she was able to manipulate her husband thereby suggesting elements of evil and sinister-like qualities in Lady Macbeth. ...

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