John of Scotland

In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, the main character Macbeth is a very ambitious man, with an equally ambitious wife who will stop at nothing to make sure she gets what she wants. Lady Macbeth,wife of Macbeth, is a very complex character, and over the course of the play, she displays on numerous occasions her ability to put on a strong and masculine face for Macbeth. While a major part of the play is Macbeth’s deep and dark desires to become king, Lady Macbeth also has secret ambitions…

This story is talk about Macbeth who from a hero become a tyrant. In this process, Macbeth is tempted by LadyMacbeth, witches and his desire. This story is a tragedy, the systles is full of sadness. Shakespeare uses old English, which are not easy to understand. In the vedio and book, there have some foreshadowings are used in the story(vedio) like witches’ prophecy. The text features give people motion of sadness, the bloodly murder are full of book. Before the listening and speaking, I alway…

The Weird Sisters, or better known as the witches, prophecy drives Macbeth’s thirst for power and enable Lady Macbeth to pursue her true ambitions. Historically, witches were denounced during Shakespearean time. Through placing Macbeth in the mindset of “he can have whatever he wants”, they effectively guide him on the path of his own destruction. This follows the pattern of temptation attributed to the Devil, who is believed to be in a person's mind, which he or she might either indludge or…

Lady Macbeth. ‘Macbeth’ a complicated tragedy by William Shakespeare was written sometimes in 1605-1606 and was published in 1623. It is a play about a Scottish brave soldier who receives prophecies from three witches about him becoming the ‘king of Scotland’. Motivated by Lady Macbeth, the prophecies and his ambitious thoughts, he murders Duncun and the fear of getting caught makes him commit more and more murders. Macbeth is a victim of both Lady Macbeth and the witches who have a part in…

Before and during the murder Lady Macbeth’s character changes from persuasive, manipulative and dominant to just dominant, but Macbeth’s character also changes but in a unique way since his character changes from a person who relies on others to decide for him to a remorseful person. Lady Macbeth’s character before the murder is persuasive and manipulative. Evidence for this can be found when Lady Macbeth is talking to Macbeth and she tries to make him decide on whether to kill Duncan or not by…

Death is often a tool authors use to spice up their novels. Authors will kill off characters such as the innocent child, the love interest or the character everyone is rooting for just to get their readers more emotionally involved in the story. Mary Shelley does this very often in Frankenstein when she eliminates characters in her novel to elicit an emotional response from her readers and to move the plot forward. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the affect death has on the plot is tremendous.…

The relationship between Prospero and Miranda is undoubtedly a strong one Prospero does however have strict control over several aspects of Miranda’s life, especially regarding aspect that are sexually related. The Tempest includes several events and encounters that might affect relationships that exist in the play, but there is one particular question regarding the one between Prospero and Miranda which is going to be explored in this analysis. The question that will be answered is how does…

Madness is a state of wild, chaotic behaviour and loss of reality, a theme that is common amongst the characters of Shakespeare’s plays. It lends a distinctive suffering of inevitable self-destruction in tragedies, some form of downfall or breaking point reaction such as traits of madness is essentially what is used to develop the storyline and show the contrast between the many personas in the story. He adequately explores many roots that lead towards madness as well as various forms of it, two…

Othello and Macbeth are two of Shakespeare’s most well known works, and often two of the first to come to mind when someone mentions Shakespearean tragedies. Both men start as an ideal for every other character in the play, only to become their own worst enemy. While both Othello and Macbeth start as noble characters in Shakespeare’s plays, the cause of their downfall differs. Othello is introduced as one of the best military officers in Venice in both character and strategy. Othello thinks of…

Shakespeare’s plays are known to display countless themes, some of which manifest through the body of the works as a whole. There is a dichotomy between appearance and reality in Shakespearean works. The idea that people or things in the world are often not what they seem, falls at the heart of all his plays. The false appearances of the characters often lead to the climax. The reality is the truth of what exists, but the appearance is merely what someone makes something look like. There are…