Lay Lady Lay

Shakespeare's two tragedies Macbeth and Hamlet can easily be compared, as Shakespeare has used many of the same elements. In particular, the supernatural plays a major role in both Macbeth and Hamlet. This is where the battle between good and evil takes place. Macbeth, who is driven by power, and Hamlet, who is controlled by his desire for revenge. Macbeth and Hamlet is the most famous tragedies that Shakespeare wrote. Macbeth is the shortest tragedy, Shakespeare wrote, and Hamlet is the longest…

Game of Thrones is a fantasy medieval television series based on the book A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin. Similar to the books, the show has an overflow of gratuitous sex and violence especially when portraying women in positions of power. Heroes die, villains triumph, peasants and slaves suffer horribly but Martin does not shy away from the reality of starvation, rape, and murder that follow in the wake of war. The class stratification and brute injustice of the feudal society are…

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play, other things appear that influences his ambitions. These influences are the things that affect his ambition to become king, which later causes his downfall. Two of the things that influence his ambitions are the witches predictions and his wife, Lady Macbeth’s, influence. The responsibility of the appearance of the idea of Macbeth becoming…

Is Lady Macbeth more responsible for King Duncan’s death? Is Lady Macbeth is more evil than her husband? Lady Macbeth was a component during the murder however she cannot be accused of being more responsible for King Duncan’s death. Lady Macbeth was not eviler than her husband Macbeth. Macbeth was the character who did the deed which therefore makes him more vain. The first evidence that proves that Lady Macbeth cannot be blamed for the death of the king was because it clearly states that…

Title & Playwright: Macbeth by William Shakespeare Setting & Time Period: 11th Century (1001-1100), England, Scotland, Ireland, (Scene 1) A desert place. Main Characters & Supporting Characters: Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, The Three Witches, Banquo, Fleance, King Duncan, Malcolm & Donalbain, Macduff, Lady Macduff, Son of Macduff, Lennox, Ross, The Three Murders. Menteth, Angus, Caithness, Seyton, The Porter in Macbeth's service, The Old Man, The English Doctor, The Scottish Doctor, Siward, Young…

Shakespeare portrays Lady Macbeth as an eloquent and pernicious character, between being a villain and a victim of her villainy, both manipulating and manipulated. Throughout the tragedy of ‘Macbeth’, she never actually kills anyone, in fact she cannot bring herself to commit the deed. Despite being responsible for instigating the idea of murder to Macbeth, she refers to the death of Duncan as ‘it’, indicating a hesitant confirmation of the deed. Would Macbeth himself alone have committed the…

This line that the First Witch says, demonstrates figurative imagery through the use of a simile. The witch is explaining to her sisters how she plans to interfere with the life of a sailor and compares herself to a tailless rat. This develops the image of an ugly rat and details to readers that the witches will act as nuisances throughout the play. Similar to a rat, they will cause a great deal of trouble through tampering and interfering with the lives of others. A rat is typically considered…

The way mortals react to fate has been a common theme in literature from ancient Greek myths, to modern novels. In Shakespeare’s play MacBeth, MacBeth, a thane, learns of his fate from the mystical Weird Sisters. This causes him and his wife to obsess over power while convincing themselves that murder is acceptable. As both of them struggle with the ethics behind their sudden rise to glory, MacBeth is visited by the Weird Sisters at different times during the play. Though it may seem like the…

In the play of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, it presents women as powerful characters through the behavior and actions of the three witches, Lady Macbeth and Lady Macduff. The three witches are emphasizes the image of evil nature to the audience’s perspective. In act 1 scene 1 and act 1 scene 3, it says the witches enters in thunder and lighting. Also, in act 4 scene 1 in a desolate place near forres, the witches were still set to be entered in the thunder. “A desolate place” ; “Thunder…