MacDuff and Malcolm then unite against MacBeth and Lady MacBeth, which will not let Macbeth keep his position of power. ... Since he feels MacBeth is responsible, he wants MacBeth dead, and Macbeth dies from a revenge killing for his own past evil deeds. Shakespeare also shows how all these deaths and deceit begin to affect Macbeth and Lady MacBeth as the play continues. ... Lady Macbeth is seen to be sleepless and sleepwalking as well. ... Lady MacBeth's death causes Macbeth to kill Siward. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Witches appear in Macbeth, a ghost appears in Hamlet, and fairies appear in A Mid-Summer Nights Dream. ... Macbeth is the Shakespearean play in which the supernatural is most largely used. ... In Macbeth the supernatural beings exercise greater powers that ever, and they succeed in their purpose to ruin the great and noble Macbeth. Macbeth also reveals the darkest and most pessimistic phase of Shakespeare's life. ... Six years passed since Macbeth and Shakespeare was approaching fifty. ...

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For these reasons, namely his greedy lust for Desdemona and his need for power and authority, Iago Of all of Shakespeare's powerful females, one of the most recognized is Lady Macbeth, from the play Macbeth. (Kimple, p366) In this play, Lady Macbeth coerces her husband into murdering Duncan, the King of Scotland to satisfy her own lust for power. ... However, murder isn't the only evil act that Lady Macbeth commits in this play. ... By this, Lady Macbeth is referencing to the sleeping potion that she used to drug the guards. (Moore, allshakespeare.com) It is very obvious that...

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As such, Shakespeare's works are first taught at a high school level, and usually the tragedies such as Hamlet and Macbeth are introduced. ... Similarly, Macbeth's ambition to become king eventually leads to his demise. ... The most obvious example is the appearance of Banquo's ghost to Macbeth in which only Macbeth can see; everyone else around him is oblivious to his vision and therefore considers him mad. ... Macbeth for one murders his best friend Banquo in fear that his children will overthrow his position as king. ... In Romeo and Juliet, the two lovers commit suicide,...

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• Grade Level: High School

In contrast, Edward de Vere's death in 1604 would have bar him from being the author of several majestic tragedies believed written latter such as Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear; the fact that the quality of de Vere's published earlier poetry likely before 1585 is vastly inferior to that of Shakespeare; the specific knowledge the plays and poems infer certain prominent people in the Queen's court connect with associated events; similarities in Shakespeare's writings parallel Oxford's life, and the need for a pseudonym by an author-courtier being Oxford to publish his...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate