These doe-eyed, fragile women are puppets in a web woven by the dominant male characters within each of Shakespeare's plays. ... However, these women, as hated and immoral as they are, do exist within Shakespeare's plays. They are shown as powerful, evil and ultimately independent beings such as with the character of Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth, a prime example of a powerful, independent female faces rejection within her respective society. ... Above and beyond all other characters in classical English literature, I would wish to be Lady Macbeth. ...

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It may be coincidence or Golding may have used Shakespeare's Macbeth as inspiration. ... In Macbeth bad is chased. ... Macduff and some of Macbeth's ex-followers go to find Macbeth. Macbeth and Macduff battle and Macbeth is killed. ... I believe even millions years from now novels will still be influenced by classic Shakespeare novels such as Macbeth or Romeo and Juliet. ...

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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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Before Shakespeare's formation and death he was just an ordinary poet among many others. ... In 1592, at the start of Shakespeare's career, a well-known writer at the time named Robert Green insulted Shakespeare by naming him an "upstart crow". ... If seen from a more positive perspective, this gave Shakespeare a huge opportunity and caused his popularity to increase, this lead Shakespeare to be taken more seriously and people were beginning to get influenced to giving Shakespeare interest because it implied that regardless of his education and his class, Shakespeare was ca...

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The 1998 film, Shakespeare in Love, cleverly altered the way in which audiences viewed Shakespeare by adjusting the temperament of the film with a modern lens. ... The set of Shakespeare in Love is a clever conception of London in the 1500's and convincingly reveals to the audience the possible conditions of how Shakespeare may have lived (Fitzsimmons, 2012). ... This theory is stabilised via many of his female characters such as Lady Macbeth and Gertrude in Hamlet, as according to Dall (2000): "Through Gertrude's marriage to Hamlet's uncle and also through Lady Macbeth...

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William Shakespeare's Life William Shakespeare was born April 23rd, 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon. ... When Shakespeare was eleven or twelve, his family had become bankrupt. ... On November 27th, 1582, Shakespeare had got married to Anne Hathaway. ... From 1601-1607, he wrote such plays as King Lear and Macbeth. ... She had absolutely adored Shakespeare's plays. ...

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However, Jerrold Hogle points out in his essay "Afterward: The 'grounds' of the Shakespeare-Gothic relationship" found in "Gothic Shakespeare's," "We do not realize how thoroughly pre-Gothic Shakespeare is, in other words, until we look back through the Gothic to his most similar motifs and tendencies" (202). In this paper I will analyze Shakespeare's use of two similar motifs associated with the Gothic genre, dreams and sleep, in several of his plays in hope of showing how thoroughly grounded the relationship between Shakespeare and Gothic fi...

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Shakespeare is regarded as the best English playwright who until now has been known. ... Shakespeare was born into a wealthy family is that his father John Shakespeare was a businessman and his mother Mary Arden came from a wealthy family, but later came adversity and John Shakespeare was devoted to a butcher with the help of their children . ... Shakespeare had not ceased to grow their readings among the most stressed of Montaigne. After this William Shakespeare began writing his works. ... In 1606 wrote Macbeth. ...

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In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare uses oxymorons to express and show the conflict in Juliet's heart when she learns that her husband has killed her favorite cousin. ... To show these emotions, Shakespeare uses oxymorons as Juliet storms: O serpent heart, hid with a flow"ring face! ... Shakespeare has a tendency to use ravens, owls and hell-kites as the symbol of death and chaos. In Macbeth Shakespeare uses a hell-kite instead of a raven to express the same emotions that Juliet is having with another character, Macduff. As Juliet continues her ranting Shakespear...

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Arguably the best piece of writing ever done by William Shakespeare, Hamlet the is the classic example of a tragedy. ... For example, MacBeth was evil, yet he was a tragic hero, because he had free will. ... In MacBeth, although MacBeth commits many murders, one almost feels sorry for him and his fate. ...

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Arguably the best piece of writing ever done by William Shakespeare, Hamlet the is the classic example of a tragedy. ... For example, MacBeth was evil, yet he was a tragic hero, because he had free will. ... In MacBeth, although MacBeth commits many murders, one almost feels sorry for him and his fate. ...

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I personally am a huge fan of his work, and would have to say that my favourite examples of his works are "Strictly Ballroom" (1992), "William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1996) and (my personal favourite) "Moulin Rouge" (2001). ... "I'm through with Romeo and Juliet and boy meets girl, and on to Macbeth and man kills beast." ... Shakespeare was given new meaning and re-invented again with the younger generation through Romeo and Juliet, taking away the perception of Shakespeare as being a boring English class siting and reading through plays, and the idea of a musical film was ...

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