Lady Macbeth is the major catalyst to Macbeth's ambition. ... Lady Macbeth's thoughts and feelings throughout the play reflect those of Macbeth but it seems that Lady Macbeth is the stronger partner (Brown 299). ... Palmaioli 3 Macbeth struggles extremely and very intensely while Lady Macbeth challenges his manhood. ... Lady Macbeth actually is important to Macbeth's characteristics by bringing out the real him. ... The Tragedy of Macbeth. ...

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William Shakespeare was a great English playwright, dramatist and poet who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Macbeth and King Lear are two of his tragedies that exemplify one of his themes he used - madness. Shakespeare has many portraits of madness among his character...

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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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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