The weather's excessive reaction to the act exposes its evil: it is so evil that none of the characters has ever seen such horrible consequences. ... (I.i.1-2). Also, when, in act four, scene one, whenever one of the apparitions comes, there is thunder. ... In fact, the first line of the play is the opposite of "iam": "When shall we three meet again" (I.i.1). ... When he is still hesitant to act, she simply attacks him where it hurts, his courage and manhood: "Art thou afeard/ To be the same in thine own act and valour,/ As thou art in desire? ...

• Word Count: 2650
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Lady Macbeth is his world. ... Macbeth: She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word "(Shakespeare, Act V, Scene V). ... When Macbeth arrives home, Lady Macbeth seems so enthusiastic to see him. ... 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). She is telling him that his face can easily be read and that he needs to act like normal, but underne...

• Word Count: 868
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

(Act 1, Scene 2) referring to his awkward position of now being the stepson of his uncle. ... 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. ... However, murder isn't the only evil act that Lady Macbeth commits in this play. When Lady Macbeth learns that Duncan will be visiting their home, she prays to the devil to release her of "thy nature; (because) it is too full o" the milk of human kindness," (Act 1, Scene 5) so ...

• Word Count: 1501
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

From Julius Caesar to Macbeth, from Othello to Hamlet, Shakespeare presented at least one machiavel. ... Only after Lear sparks the fire of his ultimate demise, the exiling of both Cordelia and Kent, are the readers presented with the true villainous self of Edmund in his soliloquy in Act I, Scene ii. ... As everyone else is on a downward spiral, Edmund rises higher than all the other characters in King Lear, such as Machiavelli's Prince would act once created by the degeneration of the surrounding Shakespearian roles. ... ( I. ii. 1-23) Edmund's deceit through the use of realpo...

• Word Count: 1654
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

From Julius Caesar to Macbeth, from Othello to Hamlet, Shakespeare presented at least one machiavel. ... Only after Lear sparks the fire of his ultimate demise, the exiling of both Cordelia and Kent, are the readers presented with the true villainous self of Edmund in his soliloquy in Act I, Scene ii. ... As everyone else is on a downward spiral, Edmund rises higher than all the other characters in King Lear, such as Machiavelli's Prince would act once created by the degeneration of the surrounding Shakespearian roles. ... ( I. ii. 1-23) Edmund's deceit through the use of realpo...

• Word Count: 1653
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School