In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, we discover that Macbeth is a tragic hero. ... While he did imagine of murder his mind rejects it and said, "Why, if fate will have me king, why, chance may crown me," ( Act I, Sc 3, p.44-45). ... Macbeth, who now no longer needed any encouragement from Lady Macbeth, started to leave her in ignorance of his plans. ... Soul of Macbeth have been destroyed since Macbeth love Lady Macbeth very much, as shown in Act I, Sc. 5, p.58, "My Dearest Love." ... This nemesis shows an additional force beyond Macbeth's control. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Macbeth, however, is not a tragedy because we can neither love Macbeth nor believe that he comes to any recognition of his own responsibility for his own downfall. ... In Act I, ii, 75-78, the Captain notes a previous incident in which Macbeth displayed his warrior-like nature: "For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name),/Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel,/Which smoked with bloody execution,/Like valor's minion, carved out his passage/Till he faced the slave;/ Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,/Till he unseamed him from the nave to th' chops,/...

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Macbeth Essay Macbeth is presented as a mature man of definitely established character, successful in certain fields of activity and enjoying an enviable reputation. ... After the murder of Duncan, the natural good in him compels him to acknowledgment that, in committing the unnatural act, he has filed away his mind and has given his eternal jewel, the soul, to those demonic forces which are the enemy of mankind. ... But since a wholly free act is one in accordance with reason, in proportion as his reason is more and more blinded by apprehension of the imagination and passions of the sensi...

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And even if I die in the act, that death will be a glory an outrage sacred to the gods! ... Consequently, Lady Macbeth must disseminate her sinister, dark qualities to Macbeth. ... " (Macbeth, I, v, 73-78) Lady Macbeth surpasses Macbeth's level of "evil" by far, and has to lecture Macbeth on how to disguise himself on front of the guests. ... All of a sudden, we see a challenge of authority between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth. ... Even her final act-suicide-was supposedly a demonstration of her unwillingness to submit to Creon, to the mortal world, and to serve the dead. ...

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In Act 1 Scene 3, Macbeth is influenced by the prophecies of the three witches which are to become a thane of Glamis, thane of Cawdor and to be a king one day. ... Towards the end of the play, however, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth did not gain happiness, but rather it led to their death. ... In Act 1 Scene 3, Macbeth is influenced by the prophecies of the three witches which are to become a thane of Glamis, thane of Cawdor and to be a king one day. ... In Act 1 Scene 3, Macbeth is influenced by the prophecies of the three witches which are to become a thane of Glamis, thane of Cawdor and to be a k...

• Word Count: 1855
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During the battle of Act 1 scene 2, we learn of Macbeths heroic acts against the Irish invaders, leading his men to victory. ... The king was seen to be Gods representative on earth so for Macbeth to be considered family by a king further emphasizes Macbeth to be worthy noble man. ... The word comparison portrays that Macbeth can compare himself with the Thane of Cawdor and considering the fact that Macbeth becomes and a traitor it foreshadows that Macbeth will also acquire these titles which he later does. ... The main turning point for Macbeth was this prophecy proclaiming that Macbeth, that...

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Moreover, to cater for a 'modern' audience at the time, the film tackled the issue of 'gender' by capturing a woman's desire to act on stage in the Elizabethan era and the frustrating journey she experienced due to the societal confines of her gender. ... Accurate to the time, women were not permitted to act in the theatre, so Viola dresses as a man and auditions for the part of 'Romeo' where she solidifies her identity as 'Thomas Kent' and by virtue, her love of William in secret. ... This theory is stabilised via many of his female characters...

• Word Count: 1880
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Shakespeare had a massive role in schools in India -by this time, the British empire still existed and Shakespeare was slowly becoming known globally which encouraged his prominence- In 1853, a law was passed called the "India act" where English language and English literature was a part of the qualification and one of the subjects included in exams. ... It consisted collections of Shakespeare's comedies, histories and tragedies.The plays included Antony and Cleopatra,The two noble kinsmen, Macbeth and Julius Caesar. ... In plays like Romeo and Juliet, he not only criticized arr...

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We see the culmination of the destroyed safety of the Medieval world in Shakespeare's plays including Hamlet, Macbeth, Richard III, and King Lear. ... In Act IV, Scene 6, we see Lear dressed in wild berries and donning a crown made from weeds -- Lear has begun to see clearly and still believes himself to be a King, but, more realistically, a King of nothing. ...

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In contrast, Edward de Vere's death in 1604 would have bar him from being the author of several majestic tragedies believed written latter such as Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear; the fact that the quality of de Vere's published earlier poetry likely before 1585 is vastly inferior to that of Shakespeare; the specific knowledge the plays and poems infer certain prominent people in the Queen's court connect with associated events; similarities in Shakespeare's writings parallel Oxford's life, and the need for a pseudonym by an author-courtier being Oxford to publish his...

• Word Count: 1431
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate