(I, III, l. 50-53) Soon after the meeting with the witches Macbeth realises that he is the thane of Glamis and the thane of Cawdor. ... It should not stand In thy posterity"(III, I, l.1-4) Banquo realised that Macbeth wants to kill him as well, the witches said that he would be the father to the line of kings. ... "I am of Cawdor: / If good, why do I yield to that suggestion / Whose image doth unfix my hair" (I, iii, 143-145). ... "My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, / Shakes so my single state of man that function / Is smother"d in surmise; and nothing is / But what is not" (I, i...

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In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, we discover that Macbeth is a tragic hero. Macbeth is very ambitious, courageous, and a moral coward: all these things lead to his tragic death at the end of the play. At the beginning of the play, Shakespeare defines Macbeth as a hero very clearly. Fr...

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Macbeth is the first one of the many of Shakespeare's great tragedies. It is a compelling drama about the success, deceit, and disintegration of a brave but flawed human being. Its diagnosis of evil is as apt today as it was when The King's Men first presented the play. I am most interested in studying Macbeth because the author, William Shakespeare is regarded as the greatest writer of English literature. Macbeth is one of his first tragedies therefore setting precedence as the standard of his following plays, which I am also interest in reading. ...

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