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Shakespeare wrote many great plays, many poems, and many sonnets. One of his greatest plays was The Tragedy of Macbeth. This tragedy, although his shortest and most compressed, is a great tragedy that was based on an actual person named Macbeth. But how true is Shakespeare’s account? Did Macbeth really kill Duncan and take over the throne? In the following pages, I will help clear up some grey areas, and hope to dispel myth from truth as we take an in-depth look at who Macbeth really was.…

Macbeth is a tragedy play written by William Shakespeare. Macbeth was written and performed in 1606. Throughout the play a few of the main characters consist of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, The Three Witches, and Macduff. In the beginning of the play, the audience is forced to think that Macbeth is this good guy. Well, technically he was a good guy, a good guy that just needed a small push into the dark. The Three Witches persuade and deceive Macbeth into doing the morally wrong: murder. Once Macbeth…

Malcolm’s Reign to Shine After vanquishing the murderous monarch of Scotland, Macbeth, I, King Malcolm of Scotland, have successfully ascended the throne of Scotland, with Dunsinane being the seat of power in Scotland. Macbeth wreaked havoc throughout the kingdom and caused endless misery, especially to people who were perceived by him to pose a threat to his reign, based on the prophecies of the three witches. Riddled with guilt, and further being misled by the three witches…

Lady Macbeth. However, as the play progresses, Lady Macbeth's mental state deteriorates and she is no longer the driving force in the relationship. This is shown clearly in one of her last soliloquies (5.1.37-42) where she is sleepwalking through Dunsinane and plagued with memories of the night Duncan was murdered. This soliloquy reveals her guilt towards the murder and her emotionally weak state in contrast to the start of the play. First and foremost, Lady Macbeth was the one, who not only…

There was a large number of women that had an effect on Macbeth during the play. Their names are Lady Macbeth, The Three Witches, Hecate, and Lady Macduff. Each woman had lots to do with Macbeth’s overall destruction. He was a crude man full of malice and terror and the women that were involved in the play each had a part in him being so terrible. Lady Macbeth was Macbeth’s wife and presented to him the idea of murdering King Duncan. She did not have the courage to do the task herself so…

The Role of Ambition in Macbeth Ambition is “an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment” (dictionary.com). Ambition can be understood and judged different ways by different people. Many people believe ambition is a positive thing to possess, but many people also believe that ambition is a negative thing that should try to be avoided. The people that believe that ambition is good often put…

4. MACBETH In this chapter, I will elaborate on Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy Macbeth. This is one of my favorite tragedies since it is about the psychological effects of ambition on those who strive for power for its own sake. “In the play Shakespeare depicts the tragedy of a man torn between an amoral will and a powerfully moral intellect. Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a study of the evil that is in every human heart and of one man’s downfall as he willfully gives way to its temptations”.…

it says “The pow’r of man for non of woman born/ Shall harm Macbeth” (4.1.80-81). The third and final apparition was a child wearing a crown, holding a tree and it had to say “Macbeth shall never be vanquished be until/ Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill” (4.1.93-94). There is one last thing the witches show him and that is the ghost of Banquo holding a mirror showing all of his descendants that will be King. Being told this made him feel more of power and invincibility than the first time…

reign. The witches tell him that no man born of a woman can defeat him, beware MacDuff, and he’ll be all good until Burnham wood comes to Dunsinane. “Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff; Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough.(line 71-72) “The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth.”(lines 80-81) “…Great Birnham wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him.”(lines 93-94) These last three prophecies put Macbeth into an over secure state telling him that Macduff…

The game’s title screen displays a dagger with the word Macbeth in the middle. This is meant to represent the dagger used in the murder of Duncan, and I thought that this would be a good way to develop the motif of the play before the game even begins. The colouring around the dagger is pale yellow and blues, this is meant to give the dagger an ethereal feeling, which relates to both the supernatural aspects of the play and Macbeth’s mental state. The music in the title screen is called…