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Macbeth’s Appetite for Self-Destruction: How Macbeth’s Different Murders led to his own Demise In Macbeth, Macbeth, like many other characters in Shakespeare’s other plays, is a tragic hero. He begins as a normal war hero, fighting many battles and making his king, Duncan, and the rest of his kingdom very proud. However, throughout the play, starting with Macbeth talking with the witches, he started his slow mental decline that led to paranoia and loss of sanity. Macbeth murdered Duncan and…

Without an ideology of morals, anarchy would arise. There would be no order, no control, no boundary, and no sense of wrong or right. Every day, humanity overtly battles towards maintaining a balance between good and evil. Even so, depriving a once judicious person of morals leads to corollary acts of betrayal, greed, and eventually, guilt. Similarly, the lugubrious loss of morals reflects itself in The Tragedy of Macbeth by the playwright, William Shakespeare. In the novel, Macbeth and Lady…

Poetry has always been a vital part of humanity’s history. It shares a piece of the past while also showing the poet’s skills. One famous female poet of the past is Anne Bradstreet. Anne Bradstreet holds a reputation of being the first female poet acknowledged as a successful New World Poet, an admirable position. Although she wrote many reputable poems in her time, she had to endure the gender bias as a woman. Some of her beliefs were rejected since they were still new to her era. Despite the…

The book FEMALE MASCULINITY is written by JUDITH HALBERSTAM also known as JACK HALBERSTAM. She happens to be a masculine woman herself. She writes this book for and about all those women who feel themselves to be more masculine than feminine wherein she tries to explain the basic notion of how as a culture and part of the society we take very little interest in female masculinity but pay a considerable amount of attention to male femininity. She felt that when different people were asked about…

Macbeth, an engrossing tragedy with themes of ambition, violence, power and fate, is a controversial Shakespearean play that can be interpreted in many different ways. Such controversy and interpretation has led to the development of many adaptations of the popular play which each express independent views on different aspects of the play, such as the portrayal of the significant character, Lady Macbeth. The representation of her major role in various film recreations such as Rupert Goold’s or…

In Shakespeare’s Macbeth he illustrates the danger of ambition through the downfall and self destruction of the Macbeth’s. Their ambition sparks at the beginning with the idea of killing Duncan. It is then shown increasing through the entire play with the death of Duncan, Banquo, and Macduff’s family. At this point their ambition consumes them, their humanity is gone and all of their poor decisions start to have consequences that ultimately lead to their destruction. Macbeth’s ambition is first…

Death is a fact of life. It is emblematic of 'the Unknown '; it is the gravest of all misfortunes. It is an enigma with which man has been so obsessed. The supreme puzzle of poets, the source of mankind 's anxiety, and the inevitable fate of all things living, death has been man 's unconquered enemy since his creation. It is true that man has conquered epidemics, succeeded in reducing mortality rate and learned how to transplant organs; even so, he cannot live for ever and death continues to…

I have been seven years old when I begin to be attentive about my environment, which had been as well my first year going to the school. I start to wonder about life, in particular my own life, who I was, where I come from, where I go. I lived with a large household, my parents, my two brothers also one sister, grandparents and two handicapped uncles, my home constantly filled with a new crowd every day, thanks to my grandma abilities as a folk healer, sometimes at nighttime a person knocks the…

Feminism within a Household: Feminism describes the scope of ideologies and movements that strive to achieve and define equality between men and women, in political, social, personal, economic and cultural aspects of everyone’s lives. These movements also seek to establish equal opportunities for men in all of these environments, including the right to education and equal employment. A feminist is a person who supports and advocates for the rights and equality of women, believing that both men…

Macbeth wash their hands with water in an attempt to wash away their sins. However, the guilt in her subconscious mind eventually comes back to haunt her. She wanders around at night sleep walking and continuously washes her hands. As the doctor and gentlewoman view her during one of her episodes, Lady Macbeth says “Here’s the smell of blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”(Act 5, sc(i)lns 34-5). Duncan’s blood is on her hands as well, and she falls into a fit…