Inverness

me [Lady Macbeth] here/ And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full/ Of direst cruelty” (1.5.43-46). A true villain is someone who hurts the people that care for them. King Duncan, who is a fair and good king, plans to visit their castle in Inverness just to congratulate Macbeth, but in the mind of Lady Macbeth, the death of Duncan is a small price…

Lady Macbeth is like two people, one before the murder and one after. In the beginning she is a ruthless, harsh, ambitious, cruel, heartless and clever woman with no conscience. She makes her decisions without hesitation or thought of consequences that she may face. This is shown when she reads Macbeth 's letter about the prophecies that the witches have told him about and she decides to murder the King. Lady Macbeth is a manipulative wife who believes that her husband is cowardly and she…

taken. By looking at the surface of Macbeth, one can see that it is about a man, Macbeth, who is told a prophecy about his future: he will become king. Macbeth believes the only way for him to become king is to kill the existing king, Duncan, and claim the throne for himself. Macbeth is a tragedy, therefore it is not hard to guess that this play ends in Macbeth’s death as a result of his flaws. An example that would just scratch the surface of this play would be when the witches chant, “All…

“Better to be dead, to be nothing, than to base one’s joy upon destruction” (Frame, 48); In the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, the audience is engaged in a grueling tale of the bloodshed against evil. From a murderous man and his wife, to the victims of the play, evil deceives and curses every one. Not only does Shakespeare use the major characters in the play as cardinal illustrations of how the enticement of sin brings destruction, but also the minor characters who are inclined to give…

Every person has fallen victim to appearance versus reality at least once in his/her lifetime. It is human nature to see a person and judge him/her on how they dress alone. People allow the sense of sight by itself to make all of his/her inferences on that person. William Shakespeare illustrates the way appearance versus reality can be used in many different ways through his play Macbeth. This play is set in medieval times and starts in the middle of a civil war in Scotland. A man named Macbeth…