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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Macbeth is the first one of the many of Shakespeare's great tragedies. ... Shakespeare was born in Stratford-on-Avon. ... Shakespeare went on to write several plays, poems, and sonnets in his lifetime. ... Shakespeare finished Macbeth in 1606. ... No matter how impressive the individual speeches or how memorable the incidents, the play must be judged on its total effect. ...

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The most obvious way that Shakespeare shows the theme is through the characters. ... He fear that "Thou play"dst most foully for't," referring to Macbeth. ... After killing Duncan, Macbeth hears a voice cry, "Glamis hath murdered sleep,"and therefore Cawdor / Shall sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more." ... Macbeth's sleeplessness is a result of his fear and guilt. ... [T] Another motif used to exemplify Shakespeare's theme is blood. ...

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Macbeth Coursework Essay Throughout Shakespeare's "Macbeth," the main character, Macbeth, is conveyed both as a tragic hero and as an evil tyrant. ... The King's escape may have influenced Shakespeare to contain this theme and show that anyone who tried to murder the King and take his divine right away would be killed. ... Therefore, in order to please the King, Shakespeare did not illustrate Banquo as an accomplice to the murder of Duncan, but placed full responsibility on Macbeth. ... She then says, "And that which rather thou dost fear to do/ Than wishest should be undone...

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In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, we discover that Macbeth is a tragic hero. ... At the beginning of the play, Shakespeare defines Macbeth as a hero very clearly. ... Macbeth, the main character in William Shakespeare's tragedy, Macbeth was not secure in his manhood. ... By the end he had no fear, and had killed not only Duncan but also many other people. ... Macbeth realizes that he is no longer afraid "no, nor more fearful. ...

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In Macbeth William Shakespeare proves to us that there is evil in all of us but in the end the good triupths. ... As The weird women promised; and I fear thou play'dst Most foully for't yet it was said. ... No one helps Macbeth's thoughts to prepare for the murder of Duncan. ... However, even with all his power, Macbeth makes no attempt to reverse the situation and is thereby responsible for his tragic fate. ... After reading the text MACBETH, by Shakespeare and viewing the film version, directed by Roman Polanski, it is logical to see that ambition and the deceptive appea...

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The answer is that we are fascinated the people then and their fears of witchcraft, demonology and the supernatural events. When you are playing a part in Macbeth you have to call it the Scottish play because Shakespeare had supposedly used real spells to write the play so it is assumed that the witches have cursed the play. ... Shakespeare has set them in their own world to scare the audience at the time. ... Lady Macbeth says to him, " Tis eye of childhood That fears a painted devil" Here Lady Macbeth is saying that only someone who has had a troubled childhood should fear a pictu...

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In Macbeth, Shakespeare develops many themes, such as ambition or the supernatural, which all revolve around the nature of the ever-present evil within the play. ... (Shakespeare, II.iii.49-56) These unfamiliar events show that nature has already reacted to the murderous deed. ... The fact that the lights are out in heaven signifies that there is no longer any appearance of good, thus foreshadowing the evil that will strike. ...

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In Shakespeare's time, when this play would be shown in the theatres, the audience would be confused at this first scene, because they knew Macbeth as a heroic fighter and king from the 11th Century. ... He gets annoyed but the witches vanish and Macbeth is left with no explanation. ... Nowhere in the letter does he mention any thoughts of murder and to no one has he spoken of them. ... At one point of her soliloquy, she says ",unsex me here," This is asking evil to make her witch because witches were thought to be of no gender. ... She also wants to feel no...

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