Donald III of Scotland

INTRO Hello ladies, gents. Today I'll be explaining why Shakespeare's plays are still popular today alongside with a bunch of facts proving this. I'll be mainly focusing on the play "Macbeth" by Shakespeare of course, the play is about a man named Macbeth which receives these "prophecies" from three witches sying that he will soon be king. He believes these and tries his best to make these come true, he murders many people and betrays almost everyone except his wife, Lady Macbeth who helps him…

The death of Macbeth is fairly anticlimactic, which is strange if you haven’t seen or read the play. But to someone that has, we know Macbeth's fate far before the final duel between Macbeth and Macduff. The fact that the play is a tragedy is one indicator, but besides that, the story foreshadows and hints at Macbeth's death as it progresses. From watching Macbeth develop from a loyal and honest warrior to a egotistical and power hungry madman. Macbeth’s drastic change turned him into a…

Macduff’s family, which made more opponents from the assassins. Macbeth’s downfall is resulted of over confident and his own ambition, he destroyed himself. At the start of the play, Macbeth was a loyal, courageous subject of Duncan, the King of Scotland. And he was a man who had a hidden ambition for power and fame. He was both noble, and brave in his war between the King and the opponents in the battle. He was rewarded because he made impressive performance in the battle. After the war,…

In Act 2 Scene 2 of Macbeth, Macbeth returns to Lady Macbeth after killing Duncan. He is traumatized by what he had done and tells Lady Macbeth of his fears about the guards awaking. In Trevor Nunn’s Macbeth there is almost no set or props, which makes the choices of the actors even more vital in being able to express what Shakespeare wanted conveyed by the characters. In Trevor Nunn's adaptation of Macbeth, Sir Ian McKellen’s use of volume and tone in his portrayal of Macbeth conveys Macbeth’s…

“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”, Eleanor Roosevelt. Throughout the story, the characters puts responsibility into their own hands and have guilt eat at their souls. Lady Macbeth is equally responsible as macbeth of the murder of king Duncan. “When Duncan is asleep...who shall bear the guilt Of our great quell?(pg Act 1,scene 7,pg3) She makes the entire plan up to…

What Is the one thing you’ve always wanted? What extents would you go to in order to obtain it? How far are you going to let your ambitions take you. In Williams Shakespeare's play Macbeth, unchecked ambition is a reoccurring theme that causes much turmoil. Characters like Macbeth and Lady Macbeth often have to make decisions based on morals and their ambition for power. We will see how Macbeth's ambitions will lead to murders, suicide, and guilt. In this story, Macbeth’s ambitions lead him to…

The importance of Ophelia’s blossoms is more recommended than characterized. Each blossom has a big range of implications and a person must consider the implying that best fits the setting of the play. In any case, the blossoms scene is a lovely scene in Hamlet; it and the blooms themselves hold further implications. Woman Macbeth is the concentration of a great part of the investigation of sex parts in Macbeth. As Lady Macbeth drives her significant other toward killing Duncan, she shows that…

Prophecies Richard III was a play written by William Shakespeare and it focuses around Richard and his scheme to take the throne for himself by killing members of the royal family, his family, and others who would oppose him. The entire play has prophecies and curses through dreams foreshadowing future events. In this essay, I am going to analyze why there are so many prophetic dreams and curses and how all the prophecies impact our experience of the play. There are three times where dreams…

In the early Middle Ages, the code of chivalry unleashed multiple facets which defined a certain tone and audience. These facets differed by containing absolute masculine tones and others that were more feminine. Two stories that interpret the different concepts of the code of chivalry, are The Song of Ronald and the Lancelot Story. The Song of Ronald was written down around 1100, by when the chivalry code had an absolute male entity, where the knights gave their lives to the king, and fought…

in his future that quickly changed. Throughout the course of the play Macbeth has a tendency to make decisions out his want for power. For example when the three witches prophesize that Macbeth will become Thane of Cowder, and later the king of Scotland. Through this Macbeth believes he will become the man of the land especially when the first prophecy becomes true and he is named the thane of cowder. Macbeth now becomes overpowered by greed when he…