1. Macbeth
"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....
In The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, he uses darkness to represent unnatural and evil found all over the play.William Shakespeare also includes the hideously evil witches into the play purposely to entertain King James I's fascination with witches. ... They have skin like the bark of a broken down tree, and their lady-like features are rather faint. The demonic lady features of the Weird Sisters rather confuse Banquo and Macbeth because "You should be women/And yet your beards forbid me to interpret/ That you are so " ( I.iii.45-47). ... Macbeth's plan is foiling like hi...
The play "Macbeth" was written by William Shakespeare in the Jacobean era. ... Her words become more rhythmic and what she says seems almost like an incantation. ... As she goes on, she becomes even more witch-like, using pagan imagery such as a raven and evil spirits. ... Though men in the middle ages were considered high above women in standing, it was still a source of great disgrace to break your word to a Lady of the gentry after you had given it. ... This is left to the discretion of the audience to decide by Shakespeare, as are many things in the play. ...
William Shakespeare's Macbeth explores the idea of one's greed for power, and how that leads to severe consequences. ... In Macbeth, Shakespeare uses the character of Lady Macbeth to portray that any action will have a consequence. ... Lady Macbeth responds, You must leave this. (3:2:33-37) These lines are an example of how Lady Macbeth's reaction to Macbeth's plan acknowledge her role changing by becoming less dominant with crucial plans. ... As she is speaking of her fears, a gentlewoman examines her actions and comments, "I would not have such a heart in my bosom for...
Movie Review of Macbeth Shakespeare's original version of Macbeth is truly a classic piece of literature. ... In this scene, Polanski actually takes you into the head of Macbeth and shows you exactly what Macbeth would have been seeing, if he had been alive. ... He also looked like a young clean cut man with no beard. ... You could also kind of tell what was going to happen by the music. ... Overall I think Polanski did a very good job of bringing Shakespeare's Macbeth from a novel to a movie. ...
Shakespeare is a master at pointing out one's character flaws and showing how those flaw bring down that person or society in general. In Shakespeare's Macbeth he does just that. ... His ambition was use to do a good thing, but if you stop to think; would any of this happened had he not killed Macdonwald. In the next scene we see the witches doing things that witches like to do. ... Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his facilities so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels trumpet-tongued against The deep damnation of his ta...
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...
She calls on spirits with murderous thoughts to make her less like a woman, and more like a man. ... Just like a man, she does not want to feel remorse. ... "Was the hope drunk/ Wherein you dressed yourself? ... I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried. ... Lady Macbeth is arguably the most ambitious women in all of Shakespeare's works. ...
Unlike Shakespeare's great villains, such as Iago in Othello and Richard III in Richard III, Macbeth is never comfortable in his role as a criminal. ... Like Macbeth, Banquo thinks ambitious thoughts, but he does not translate those thoughts into action. ... He also wonders whether they are really women, since they seem to have beards like men. ... "Your children shall be kings,"" he says to his friend, to which Banquo responds: "You shall be king- (I.iii.84). ... As they leave, Macbeth whispers to Banquo that, at a later time, he would like to speak to him privately about what has transp...
For example, Macbeth in the Shakespeare play, "Macbeth" was influenced by another person in the play. ... In Act 1, scene 7, Lady Macbeth says "If you weren't a man, then what kind of animal were you when you first told me you wanted to do this? ... A boys favorite athlete influences him to be like the athlete. ... Be like him. ... We as humans are like a drop of water. ...
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. ...
Harold Bloom, an American literary critic, says that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's relationship is the "best marriage in Shakespeare" at the beginning of the play, equal in love and ambition. ... In order to become king, a title that he would like to be, he would have to murder, but he is too kind and decent to do so. ... Lady Macbeth becomes so fond of the idea of becoming Queen of Scotland that she mocks her husband by questioning his masculinity and saying that she would stop at nothing in order to get what she wants and she would never break a promise; "How tender 'tis to lov...
It is also important because Shakespeare depict! ... He shows this when Ross gives him the title of Thane of Cawdor and despite the fact that the witches had just told him that he would become Thane of Cawdor he is still surprised, this is shown when he says, " Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?" ... This becomes obvious when Macbeth says, "They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly,/ But bear-like I must fight the course. ...