The second was a bloody child that said only person that wasn't " of woman born," can destroy Macbeth. ... Macbeth is growing more and more evil as the play progresses,and killing Macduff's innocent and harmless family is what shows how evil and greedy he has truly gotten. 5. ...
At the beginning of the story we learned that Macbeth was a very superstition person who believed in the prophecies of the evil witches. He was also a person full of ambition who wanted to take over the kingship of King Duncan. ... Lady Macbeth never known that Macbeth had became such a ruthless person. ... On the other hand, I believed that nobody could force anyone to do something unless the person himself really wanted to do so. ... Macbeth was the one became brutal and killed lots of innocent live later on, but not Lady Macbeth. ...
Look like th' innocent flower, But be the serpent under't. ... Lady Macbeth is telling him he must act as if nothing is out of the ordinary, but finish the deed without hesitation, using the metaphor of looking like an innocent flower, but being the serpent hiding underneath It. ... Obviously Lady Macbeth had a large influence on Macbeth, but she was not the only person who negatively influenced Macbeth. ...
The Macbeth that we see is a man who could have been a good person but just lost his way in all the evil deeds. ... Macbeth is very desperate when he goes after Macduff's family, and he turns repulsive when he starts killing innocent children like Macduff's kids. ...
Every choice a person makes and every act they participate in results in either a good or bad response. ... Obviously the servants were innocent in the murder of King Duncan, but because everyone assumed they had murdered the King, Macbeth was seen as just in killing them. ...
Macbeth, a Scottish general goes against nature and kills his king, his friend and an entire family of innocent people, leaving nature no choice but to destroy him in any way possible. ... Macbeth was a great soldier, but his unnatural desire to overthrow Duncan, a wonderful person and even better king, threw off the natural balance. ... Before he met the witches Macbeth was an amazing general with an innocent desire for power. ...
Juliet carries on with the notion that Romeo is a two-sided person, but she adds a twist with personality changes and references to animals. ... Lambs have been known to represent the innocent throughout the Christian world. Juliet is saying that Romeo is an innocent lamb that has a hidden personality under its white fur. ...
Macbeth, a Scottish general goes against nature and kills his king, his friend and an entire family of innocent people, leaving nature no choice but to destroy him in any way possible. ... Macbeth was a great soldier, but his unnatural desire to overthrow Duncan, a wonderful person and even better king, threw off the natural balance. ... Before he met the witches Macbeth was an amazing general with an innocent desire for power. ...
While fate can be determined by that of ones destiny or that of a person's free will, the outcome of the matter is generally the same. ... The element which further pushes a person from chance is ambition. Ambition is the everlasting hunger that makes a person want more from life. ... Ambition is a powerful attribute to one person if it is executed in certain ways. ... Macbeth had now turned from his warrior days when he fought and killed for Scotland, to spreading the blood of the innocent. ...
Shakespeare accomplishes this by using a powerful and unsuspecting character such as Macbeth, maybe any one of us, a good leader, strong willed and a person that is looked upon. ... He is seen as a good advocate of Satan's evil conduct: for an evil person is one you least expect. ... Lady Macbeth tells her husband to "look like the innocent flower But be the serpent under't" [I.v.65-6]. ... A sane or non-evil person would never have crossed that line in killing so many beings. Only an evil person can carry out such immoral and horrid tasks. ...
Shakespeare accomplishes this by using a powerful and unsuspecting character such as Macbeth, maybe any one of us, a good leader, strong willed and a person that is looked upon. ... He is seen as a good advocate of Satan's evil conduct: for an evil person is one you least expect. ... Lady Macbeth tells her husband to "look like the innocent flower But be the serpent under't" [I.v.65-6]. ... A sane or non-evil person would never have crossed that line in killing so many beings. Only an evil person can carry out such immoral and horrid tasks. ...
If looking at the characteristics of good and evil, it makes the reader wonder what makes a person good or evil. ... Lady Macbeth: Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men may read strange matters:-To beguile the time, look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it (Shakespeare, Act 1, Scene III). ...
Ambition is the cause of most of Macbeth's problems; it leads to the killing of Duncan to take his place as King and friends to keep his secret safe, this ultimately leads to his own death, and the death of those who are innocent such as Banquo and MacDuff's son all for his gain. ... Banquo shows us what happens when you take life as it comes and do not try to force things to happen, although he was killed he was a much happier person than Macbeth. ...
King Duncan is such a kind and loving person, that Lady Macbeth needs to go out of her way and ask her evil spirits to help kill him. ... Although Duncan is king and is in charge of these attacks, he still feels bad for the innocent men being killed. ...
A tragedy is essentially the portrayal of the fall of a great person because of a flaw in their character. ... Immediately afterwards, Macbeth could feel nothing would never be the same - "Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more:/Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep-, "I am afraid to think what I have done;/Look on't again, I dare not-, "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood/Clean from my hand? ...
Macbeth says, "Know that it was he in the times past which held you so under fortune, which you thought had been our innocent self: this I made good to you in our last conference; pass'd in probation with you, how you were borne in hand, how cross'd the instruments, who wrought with them."" ... Even a generally good person can become corrupt when faced with the prospect of having power. ...
In the play Othello by William Shakespeare the character of Othello transforms during the course of the play from a respected and honored General to a fallen man, due to the unfortunate sequence of events that transpire through both coincidence and Iago's evil designs. Othello's inability to judge o...
You look back to the beginning of the play at Macbeth was the kind of person who would never kill anyone for power. ... Rather to come fate into the list, and champion me to the utterance "(3.1.70-73) Since he committed such acts to become king, he does not want anything to come in the way of his desire to be king and doesn't want Banquo's kids becoming kings either which shows how ruthless Macbeth really became during the progress of the play even with the friendship with Banquo and if the destruction of friendship isn't a strong enough symbol to show Macbeth's true ambit...
The constant badgering of his wife changes his innocent character into a murderous figure that we learn more about in the next couple of acts. ... After Macbeth killed one person, he thought a few more would not hurt because he new he would be going to hell anyway. ...
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. ... That is, Lady Macbeth's ambition drives her to persuade her husband into the murdering of innocent people. ...
In scene three, our impression on Macbeth changes because we no longer view him as the strong person we had envisioned him to be in scenes 1-2. ... In lines 16-20, Macbeth talks about how Duncan is too "meek" and "clear" (innocent) to kill. ...
This order by Macbeth shows how warped and evil he has become: he orders the slaughter of innocent women and children. ... In the play Macbeth, Macbeth himself is a prime example of how tragic flaws can lead a person down a path of destruction. ...
