Shakespeare uses a frightening spectacle to grip his audience. ... Shakespeare questions all that exists in this world and possible other worlds. ... One imagines the witches to be in motion, perhaps swirling, like their whirlpool of doggerel verse, and we, the audience, are not sure of the ground we stand on. ... He observes further that there are no stars, "their candles are out,"" and realize that Mac Beth has been granted his wish "Stars hide you fires -(I, iv, 50) and "Come thick night (I, v, 49). ... Their fast paced dialogue sets on irregular pace like a racing heart beat connoting ...

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Lady Macbeth goes so far as to tell Macbeth that he "look so green and pale"(Shakespeare, Act 1 Scene 7 Line 37) which would mean that he looks like he has anemia which was thought back then to mean that you were a virgin girl if you got the green sickness. Lady Macbeth is so bold and dominant in the relationship to say that he looks like a virgin girl because he does not want to kill King Duncan. ... Macbeth gets so caught you in protecting his own manhood he goes as far to say only to bring forth men children. ... Macduff says this to prove that even though you may be manly and tou...

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I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness. I never gave you kingdom, called you children(III.ii.14-17). ... Gloucester and Lear: Men who act like Gods. ... Shakespeare, William. ... Gloucester and Lear: Men who act like Gods. ...

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There is no power like the power of a woman. ... In Shakespeare's renowned tragedy, Macbeth was drawn in a plot to murder his King. ... (Shakespeare, I, vii, 25-28) Macbeth knew himself to be an ambitious man. ... (Bealey, pg. 30) It is certainly not worth it to fight for a title and loose it because you cannot maintain it. ... "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." ...

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"Macbeth" was written by William Shakespeare in 1606, during the reign of James I. ... A medal was also made at the time portraying a snake hidden by flowers as a remembrance; this image is referred to by Lady Macbeth, "look like th"innocent flower," whilst advising her husband. ... Beforehand she was very strong, self assured and determined, "what cannot you and I perform capon Th"unguarded Duncan?" ... Shakespeare then uses stichomythia. ... He is like this until Lady Macbeth takes the situation into her hands and says "tis the eye of childhood." and even though her "hands are of Macbeth&...

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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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In William Shakespeare's Macbeth, symbolism and imagery are both widely used in illustrating the overall theme of murder. Throughout the play, Shakespeare depicts various types of symbolism and imagery that leads to the downfall of the protagonist, Macbeth. ... Why do you dress me in borrow"d robes?" ... She reprimands his hesitation and urges him to carry on, "Was the hope drunk wherein you dress"d yourself? ... Finally, Shakespeare also uses the imagery of animals as well. ...

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Ruined by the Evil, Destroyed by the Good William Shakespeare's great tragedy, Macbeth, portrays how one man can destroy his entire life by giving into the temptations of evil. ... As author Harold Goddard states in his book The Meaning of Shakespeare, "Macbeth is Shakespeare's descent into Hell"(498 Goddard). ... As one old man recalls in the play "Tis unnatural, Even like the deed that's done. ... This becomes appearant when she says Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, ...

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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. ...

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"Stay you imperfect speakers, tell me more-. ... Acting as the instigator and motivator, Lady Macbeth questions and provokes Macbeth's abilities and desires: "Wherein you dress'd yourself? ... The prophecy itself seems like a good opportunity for Macbeth when in reality it leads to his downfall. ... Lady Macbeth summarized this best when she told Macbeth to look like a flower but to be a serpent underneath. ... Macbeth, like Creon, also upsets the natural order of life. ...

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James 1 was a great influence on this play because Shakespeare wrote it especially for him. Shakespeare knew James 1 interest in witchcraft and so involved this into Macbeth. ... Shakespeare would usually lighten up his audience before he threw a dramatic twist which would disturb most audience members. ... They would pretend not to understand such jokes and comments of these, but deep down, you could hear their laughter. ... Also it could be Shakespeare way of showing us that even before the kill, Macbeth has a guilty conscience. ...

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Shakespeare's Macbeth shows how the three traits can lead to a nasty end. ... In Macbeth's case, Duncan did trust Macbeth like his son. The prospect of going against someone that thinks of you like a son is daunting. ... Every noise, foreign or domestic, feels like the noise of the law bringing down the axe on Macbeth's head. ... Shakespeare's Macbeth shows that three simple traits and conditions can lead to a character's end....

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You can tell that Macbeth is guilty when he sees the hallucination of Banquo at the table in Act 3 Scene 4. ... You also know that Macbeth feels guilty for the things he is doing because he can't sleep. ... He treats these murders like a job that has to be done and this makes him look bad. ... She tells him to "look like th" innocent flower but be the serpent under't." ... I think that Shakespeare is saying that witches don't exist because they don't do anything physically and so they might as well have not been there, although I think they were responsible I don't thi...

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Macbeth does not like being ridiculed by his wife. ... Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, but the serpent under it. ... Know that is was he in the times past which held you so under fortune. Which you thought had been out innocent self: this I made good to you in our last conference; pass" in probation with you, how you were borne in the hand, how cross"d the instruments, who wrought with then" and all the things else that might to half a soul and to a notion crazed say, "This did Banquo" (III.i.81-90) This shows how one's state of mind can change after being under...

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She acts like a woman with a warm heart and charm. ... Shakespeare's graphic and vulgar use of language for lady Macbeth would have made the audience appalled and sickened. ... However, like Macbeth she shows moments of humanity. She would have carried out the murder herself had Duncan not looked like her father. ... Shakespeare makes the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth very much as a linked pair. ...

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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. ...

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A prominent theme in Shakespeare's play Macbeth is the contrast between appearance and reality. ... "Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, /But be the serpent under't." ... "I wish you"re horses swift and sure of foot; / And so I do commend you to their backs. / Farewell."... He says to them, "In our last conference, passed in probation with you, / How you were borne in hand, how crossed, the instruments, who wrought with them, and all things else that might / to half a soul and to a notion crazed / Say, "Thus did Banquo."" ... Which is ironic because in Shakespeare&...

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Temptation is an urge everybody has no matter whom, where, or what you are. ... Shakespeare explores the temptations of many characters and the choices they make through the plays of Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, and Othello. ... This proves to exclaim that Macbeth was not emotionally strong enough to resist the witches' temptations jsut like as in many cases today.   ... Shakespeare again questions society by putting in the play what lots of people have done and will do. ...

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They come across three wild, witch-like women. ... Speak, if you can: what are you?? ... During the time of Shakespeare it was believed that the assassination of a king was the greatest crime you could commit as God appointed all kings to rule as His personal deputies, and therefore to kill or rebel against a king was to go against God. ... He shows the audience, who at the time of Shakespeare would?... I conjure you, by that which you profess- howe?...

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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. ...

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The BBC version is set for a younger audience and the RSC is more serious and set for real Shakespeare lovers. ... The BBC used red and yellows which I thought showed royalty where as the RSC was all dark with barely any colour, at first you would think it was black and white. ... I liked the loud jangly music in the RSC, it reminded me of music that would be played at Royal meetings, The last difference in appearance was the location. The RSC version was filmed on a stage like in a theatre and the BBC's version was filmed in an unused factory. ... Lady Macbeth's lines we...

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This will be repeated until you are sick of it. ... Do you think Macbeth is paying attention? ... Does this sound like a happy Thane to you? ... And then butter melts in Lady M's mouth (sort of like m and m's) as she "welcomes" Duncan to her home. ... (Sounds like a Mommy, Dearest book in the making) And she has a plan. ...

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I've imagined my audience be unfamiliar with Shakespeare and quite young. Suddenly, the lights go off and you hear the rumbling of thunder, then lightning strikes and the production has my attention and I am buzzing with anticipation. ... Another women enters on stage, she is a striking women wearing a diaphanous nightshirt, "Lo you, here she comes. ... The images stop abruptly; silence descends upon the theatre like a wet blanket, the audience look on expectantly. ...

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This first puts the idea into Macbeth's mind that the witches can speak, he then says," Speak if you can: what are you." ... Although other arguments could be that the witches knew that Macbeth was going to ask of their speech because they could predict the future, but Shakespeare made no reference to the witches predicting that Macbeth would ask for them to speak. ... This means that's if she had promised to do something for Macbeth like to dash the brains of a baby out she would and Macbeth has promised to do something just as hard for her and he has refused to do it. ... In act 1,...

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In the play of Macbeth, Shakespeare introduces the main character, through the eyes of the one who knows him best, his wife. ... In order for her to have the courage to do the deed and ask that all woman emotions be removed from her, "Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty! ... Realizing that he could end up just like Duncan, he decides that if he or his kids cannot be king than no one can be king, "Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown And put a barren scepter in my gripe, Thence to be wrenched wit...

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