John of Scotland

However, without Lady Macbeth’s urging, he would never have killed Duncan in the first place. All the nobles blamed Macbeth for the murder despite the fact that Lady Macbeth was the true mastermind behind Duncan’s murder. She was the real traitor to Scotland. Lady Macbeth convinced Macbeth to commit the terrible deed through…

Shakespeare’s classic play, Macbeth, tells a interesting and supernatural story of a man told he would rule if he find a way to the throne. Macbeth decides this prophesy will be true if he can just kill the three people in his way of the throne. In Act I the quote, “Fair is foul and foul is fair,” is said (Act I i 10). This quotes meaning is that what is ‘fair’ is not what is right, ‘foul’, but that doing ‘foul’ or evil actions is right when fulfilling this prophesy. Macbeth states the beginning…

Next another symbol of significance is blood. This figure weighs on Macbeth and Lady Macbeth with the killings of Duncan and Banquo. Blood affects the reader by seeing them deal with guilt and how it makes them go insane. Macbeth says “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood, Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather, The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making he green one red”(2.2.60-63) This is a metaphor saying that these huge waves will turn green into red, and nothing even…

Macbeth is the infamous cursed show written by the one and only William Shakespear. The play opens with three witches talking aongst themselves where they discuss a meeting place. They ultimately decide to meet on the heath after the conclusion of a battle (Which is indicated to have happened just previous to the shows opening scene) where they will meet someone named Macbeth. Scene two moves on to a military camp where King Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain and Lennox enter along with their attendants…

so, if the three witches never told him his future, none of this would've ever happened. So it could be that it's just his fate and he has to follow on with it. Another position on Macbeth's character could be that he is a hero selected to rescue Scotland in a time of…

In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, there are many aspects of the supernatural throughout the play, all of which influence the central character-- Macbeth. Various supernatural factors alter Macbeth’s morals and deteriorate his mental state until he is consumed by the evil that was formerly contained within himself. Powers of darkness such as witches, prophecies, and ghosts, push Macbeth onto and along the road to destruction. The chaos begins when three witches appear to Macbeth and his compatriot,…

Macbeth: Developing a Tragic Hero through Blood Imagery Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, follows a tragic hero succumbing to his over ambition. A tragic hero is a character who inevitably falls to their destruction because of a fatal flaw. Shakespeare uses an abundant amount of techniques such as blood imagery to increase the excitement of the play and, in the process, develop Macbeth as a tragic hero. Blood imagery itself, the colour and smell, plays a crucial role in showing key…

There are a lot of factors to consider whether Macbeth or Lady Macbeth is the character to blame for King Duncan’s death. However, none of Lady Macbeth’s arguments hold up. Therefore, Macbeth is the one who is responsible for King Duncan’s murder. One of the factors that add up to Macbeth’s fault is his ambitiousness that drove him to consider Lady Macbeth’s proposition. In his soliloquy (Act 1, Scene 4), “Stars hide your fire and don’t let any light shine on my dark and deep desire. My eyes…

conflicts, such as Duncan and Lady Macbeth. Duncan is the King and ruler of Scotland in which Macbeth has been his noble for many years. Macbeth seizes Duncan’s title more than he had expressed before, which leads to conflict in the story. Lady Macbeth is Macbeth’s wife whom has…

Darkness in Macbeth In the play Macbeth, Shakespeare uses many images of darkness throughout the play for multiple purposes. The setting of the play is in Scotland during the 11th Century which also represents darkness. In England the people in this era thought that the night air was contaminated and evilness was liberated since the sky contained no sunlight. Shakespeare uses dark imagery to make a strange and ominous atmosphere. It also changes the audience’s emotions by creating emotional…