Education in Scotland

To what extremes would a person go to get powers that they seek? During the 1600’s, people would go to great lengths to get power. Power was the element that separated the powerful from the weak. The more powerful a person was, the more respected they were. In Shakespeare's play, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Little did Macbeth know, having his hands covered with the victim’s blood, would eventually lead to his own downfall. Macbeth’s eagerness to become powerful shows the reader how through violence…

In the play Macbeth William Shakespeare showed how guilt affects some of the characters in the play and used several motifs to show the guilt. Some of the characters affected by guilt in the play through the motifs of blood, sleepwalking, and ghosts to show guilt were Macbeth and Lady Macbeth The first person who felt the effect of guilt was Macbeth. After committing the murders Macbeth begins getting haunted by the ghosts of the people he killed. On page 101 the text states “‘Thou canst not…

Macbeth A Tragic Hero Macbeth A Tragic Hero What makes a tragic hero? Is it greed, lust, pride? Or is it common human imperfection? In Shakespeare’s Macbeth; Macbeth, Thane of Glamis becomes hungry for power after he learns about his life's prophecy and does the unthinkable to become more powerful. Blinded by his greed Macbeth seals his fate and pays the ultimate price for his misdeeds. A Greek philosopher known as Aristotle believed that true tragedies are self inflicted and personal.…

There are several examples of foreshadowing in the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare but one of the most important ones has to do with the theme of blood throughout the play. The bloody battle in Act I foreshadows events that will occur later in the play and have a deeper meaning. In this play Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, and their assassins symbolize murderous evil and show it through the crimes they commit. They go to extreme lengths in order to reach their goal of Macbeth becoming King. These…

Colors can be deceiving. Lady Macbeth transforms from red to white as she goes from taking control of Macbeth and her own masculinity, to feeling remorseful and being less aggressive in her state of being. In Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, color imagery is used to highlight the transformation in Lady Macbeth’s character and gender role. Towards the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth orders Macbeth around to kill Duncan and prevent others from seeings the horrid crime that they committed. By…

Lady Macbeth has a lot of medical issues for different reasons. I recounted a scene where she got a letter from her spouse, presenting the prediction that he would get to be above all else. Lady Macbeth uncovers that her quick considerations were dull, and primarily comprised of killing the present ruler, Duncan (Coloybell). These degenerate considerations hint at a bothered mental state and, by aftereffects of her taking of Goldberg's test; it has gotten to be obvious that she experiences…

How does Lady Macbeth demonstrate and lose power in the play Macbeth? How does Lady Macbeth demonstrate power? In the Elizabethan era it is expected for women to be the weaker sex, also for them to be the ones to cook for their fathers or husbands. When they are not married, women - or girls because they used to get married at a young age - they were the property of their fathers to then be passed on to their future husbands, so this demonstrates a sign of weakness. It is also expected for them…

The witches are three illusionary figures that incite evil throughout Scotland by dictating enticing prophecies that in particular entrigue Macbeth. For example, when the witches and Macbeth first come in contact, the witches dictate, “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to you, thane of Glamis! All hail, Macbeth! Hail to you, thane of…

In Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’, Lady Macbeth is somewhat responsible in the downfall of her husband’s tyranny. She does this by coercing her husband into doing things he had very serious doubts about. She pushes him by calling him a coward, essentially converting him into a mindless tyrant. Although later in the play her role diminishes, and Macbeth makes his own decisions. In Act 1, Scene 5, Lady Macbeth considers the witches prophecy that her husband will be king. She says: “Yet do I fear thy…

Historical Young Adult books are so few and far between, I was delighted that The Witch Hunter was both that and a fantasy. The earlier time period fit the tone of the story very well, especially considering that Elizabeth's profession is to hunt witches. In this world, a powerful wizard was blamed for the start of a plague years ago, so all magic is forbidden. If you are caught practicing witchcraft, you will be arrested and burned at the stake. There are those who of course oppose the laws -…