By use of plot, Shakespeare shows that it is necessary to look at past problems and confront the darkest of desires for the use of improvement. ... If Macbeth had assessed his problems and confronted his failures and sinister desires, he would have learned from his mistakes and could of prevented his downfall. ... A group of boys become abandoned on a tropical island and the quest for power becomes evident. ... He associates the pig head with the evil side of human nature and the ocean with adulthood and a normal life. The pig head helps show that if a character doesn't re-evaluate his da...

• Word Count: 474
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

This scene takes place at night; I feel the darkness represents what is unnatural, cruel and evil. ... The fear of killing Duncan was so evident in Macbeth, but after he took the life of the king, killing was just another part getting crowned king and receiving what he wanted. ... Even though his problems of threats to the thrown were solved, Banquo's murder haunted him for Banquo was not just another casualty to the cause, he was Macbeth's friend. ... Macbeth is a courageous Scottish general who does not normally commit evil deeds, yet he deeply desires power and advancement. ... Th...

• Word Count: 714
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Ambition is defined as the strong desire to achieve something, and this is obviously evident in the play as Macbeth strives to make himself King, and prevent fate from occurring. ... His only problem is whether he should wait for it to happen, or to make fate his own. ... Even though Macbeth is not essentially evil, ambition makes him strive for evil, and on the way, forces him to perform evil deeds. ...

• Word Count: 841
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

We see a trio of howling, shrieking ugly hags gathered in a thunderstorm, cackling greedily over their evil plans. ... The antithesis suggests a metaphysical game, which is about to be played with good and evil. ... Colossal and awe-inspiring though they may be, Shakespeare seems to be saying that evil is also banal and petty. ... Mac Beth is a courageous Scottish general who is not naturally inclined to commit evil deeds, yet he deeply desires power and advancement. ... The problem, the play suggests, is that once one decides to use violence to further one's quest for power, it is dif...

• Word Count: 1690
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography

From then on, after the murder of Duncan, Macbeth entered into a life of evil. ... Macbeth wanted to ensure that he would reach his ambition without problems. ... For example, his fighting in Duncan's service is magnificent and courageous, and his evident joy in it is traceable in art to the natural pleasure which accompanies the explosive expenditure of prodigious physical energy and the euphoria which follows. ... Indeed his imagination and passions are so vivid under this evil impulse from without that "nothing is but what is not"; and his reason is so impeded that he judges, "These ...

• Word Count: 2254
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although he think he is solving his problems, his damnation is ever progressing by making being indirectly involved in the murder of his one time best friend and father of a line of kings. ... As the play progresses, it is evident that Macbeth is tempted by the witches and has become evil by the catalyst of their powers. ...

• Word Count: 684
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

But as the play continues it is evident that Lady Macbeth was the dominant of the two characters, she could have persuaded Macbeth to do anything if she so wished. ... She talks to Macbeth about his problems, insults him, doubts his honor and courage. ... This line shows foreshadowing; it makes the audience know that something unfair and evil will occur. ...

• Word Count: 1125
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School