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he and I have friends in common whom I need, so I have to be able to moan and cry over his death in public even though I’ll be the one who had him killed.” (Pg. 93) The witches told Macbeth that Banquo’s sons will be king and they would take over Scotland. As the King, Macbeth only wanted the throne for himself. So that's why Macbeth had to kill Banquo. After Banquo’s death, Macbeth was hallucinating Banquo’s spirit and started feeling…

Shakespeare’s famed bodies of work include comedies, love stories, and tragedies. Macbeth, one of his most popular tragedies, features powerful themes throughout that established an overall somber, dark mood. Guilt comes after a regrettable action is committed, but what if that action helped one achieve a life-long goal? Through the apparent use of blood, darkness, and death, Shakespeare establishes a powerful theme of guilt throughout Macbeth. )From the intro, I can’t tell if this paper is…

In Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’, Lady Macbeth is somewhat responsible in the downfall of her husband’s tyranny. She does this by coercing her husband into doing things he had very serious doubts about. She pushes him by calling him a coward, essentially converting him into a mindless tyrant. Although later in the play her role diminishes, and Macbeth makes his own decisions. In Act 1, Scene 5, Lady Macbeth considers the witches prophecy that her husband will be king. She says: “Yet do I fear thy…

The witches are three illusionary figures that incite evil throughout Scotland by dictating enticing prophecies that in particular entrigue Macbeth. For example, when the witches and Macbeth first come in contact, the witches dictate, “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to you, thane of Glamis! All hail, Macbeth! Hail to you, thane of…

To what extremes would a person go to get powers that they seek? During the 1600’s, people would go to great lengths to get power. Power was the element that separated the powerful from the weak. The more powerful a person was, the more respected they were. In Shakespeare's play, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Little did Macbeth know, having his hands covered with the victim’s blood, would eventually lead to his own downfall. Macbeth’s eagerness to become powerful shows the reader how through violence…

In the play Macbeth William Shakespeare showed how guilt affects some of the characters in the play and used several motifs to show the guilt. Some of the characters affected by guilt in the play through the motifs of blood, sleepwalking, and ghosts to show guilt were Macbeth and Lady Macbeth The first person who felt the effect of guilt was Macbeth. After committing the murders Macbeth begins getting haunted by the ghosts of the people he killed. On page 101 the text states “‘Thou canst not…

Macbeth A Tragic Hero Macbeth A Tragic Hero What makes a tragic hero? Is it greed, lust, pride? Or is it common human imperfection? In Shakespeare’s Macbeth; Macbeth, Thane of Glamis becomes hungry for power after he learns about his life's prophecy and does the unthinkable to become more powerful. Blinded by his greed Macbeth seals his fate and pays the ultimate price for his misdeeds. A Greek philosopher known as Aristotle believed that true tragedies are self inflicted and personal.…

There are several examples of foreshadowing in the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare but one of the most important ones has to do with the theme of blood throughout the play. The bloody battle in Act I foreshadows events that will occur later in the play and have a deeper meaning. In this play Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, and their assassins symbolize murderous evil and show it through the crimes they commit. They go to extreme lengths in order to reach their goal of Macbeth becoming King. These…

Colors can be deceiving. Lady Macbeth transforms from red to white as she goes from taking control of Macbeth and her own masculinity, to feeling remorseful and being less aggressive in her state of being. In Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, color imagery is used to highlight the transformation in Lady Macbeth’s character and gender role. Towards the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth orders Macbeth around to kill Duncan and prevent others from seeings the horrid crime that they committed. By…

Lady Macbeth has a lot of medical issues for different reasons. I recounted a scene where she got a letter from her spouse, presenting the prediction that he would get to be above all else. Lady Macbeth uncovers that her quick considerations were dull, and primarily comprised of killing the present ruler, Duncan (Coloybell). These degenerate considerations hint at a bothered mental state and, by aftereffects of her taking of Goldberg's test; it has gotten to be obvious that she experiences…