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Don’t Fear the Witch There are many things that can come to mind when one hears “witchcraft”. Classic films like “Hocus Pocus”, “The Craft”, “The Blair Witch Project” and many more are famous for their plots that revolve around the antics of witches. The witches are shown to have supernatural abilities such as being able to shapeshift, levitate objects, turn people into animals, and invoke spirits. Delving into the darker side of the topic, the taboo word can incite thoughts of animal sacrifices…

ideas from the bible almost nonexistent. In Shakespeare’s version of Genesis 3, Macbeth would be Adam, Lady Macbeth would be Eve, and the Three Witches would be the snake. The Three Witches would represent Satan and all things bad, just like the snake in Genesis 3. They are persuasive, cunning, and they say…

Lastly, Macbeth is highly influenced by the apparition’s visions through his full trust upon them that leads him to be over confident. The first apparition gains Macbeth’s trust through the first vision. The armed head declares Macbeth to “Beware Macduff;/Beware the thane of fife” (4.1.78-79). Macbeth is already aware that Macduff is not loyal to him and says “Thou hast harp’d my fear aright” (4.1.81). Due to the fact that the vision confirms what Macbeth thinks, Macbeth begins to trust on what…

Compare Macbeth to Lady Macbeth (Textual Evidence) Corruption of Power played a role in both Macbeth and lady Macbeth as they expresses their inner monster. In comparison to her husband, Lady Macbeth is very foul. She’s more extreme in terms of achieveing the position of King. From the line, “Come, you spirits.That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here.And fill me from the crown to the toe topful.Of direst cruelty!” (Macbeth Act 1, scene 5, 38–43), we can see Lady Macbeth is more…

At times, the viewer is able to see the world as Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, or the witches would by manipulating where the angle was shot from. If Wright were to reproduce each line and move from the play as it was written, the chance of an image-oriented, cinematic approach (Wright). He instead manipulated the events…

increasing ease along with the influence of Lady Macbeth. Ultimately, Macbeth proves himself better suited to the battlefield than to political intrigue, because he lacks the skills necessary to rule without…

1. In Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel, A Wizard of Earthsea, the theme of violence is portrayed through the shadow, Ged, and the dragons. In Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, the theme of violence is portrayed through the war, the firefighters and the society. 2. “For he hungered to learn, to gain power” (Le Guin). Le Guin has Ged saying this near the beginning of the novel to show that Ged really wants to gain supremacy over others. This is emphasized later in the novel when he attempts to…

Peter burkholder, a Studies in Popular Culture writer, discusses the anachronism and omission of the use of crossbows in his article X Marks the Plot: Crossbows in Medieval Film. Peter states that the use of crossbows in medieval film is complex which needs in-depth analysis. Robert Toplin’s viewpoint was used by Peter to support his idea that different judging principles need to be applied when judging made-for-television movie. After introduction, Peter starts his analysis by introducing the…

several potential incidents that could be identified as Macbeth’s tragic flaw. Such incidents include his belief in the Weird Sisters’ prophecy, his slaughter of Duncan and his misled judgement to listen to Lady Macbeth. However, I think Macbeth’s tragic flaw is not his simply being persuaded by Lady Macbeth to kill Duncan, but rather, his frail masculinity. While the prophecy had been the initial source igniting Macbeth’s ambition, the idea of becoming king through immoral means was one that…

Due to Macbeth’s and Lady Macbeth’s planning and involvement of Duncan’s death, the people suffer from nightmares and hallucinations which establishes that the ambition of power will not only weigh a heavy guilt upon a person due to cheating but also of the corruption of the mind and morality. After Macbeth received his prophecy, he and other characters have been experiencing hallucinations and signs of evil, due to the prophecy and evil plan of Macbeth’s. (show assertion is correct) While the…