Robert I of Scotland

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…

Love and Anger: Two Sides of a Coin Would you kill someone you love? Would you kill someone you look up to? Jack Merridew’s character undoubtedly changes throughout the book “Lord of the Flies” written by William Goulding. Jack Merridew’s mercy fades away by the end of the book, from love to anger, and his character impacts the book greatly. At the beginning of the book, Jack is semi merciful and loving. Jack and the choir have a democratic system where they can talk and make decisions. Jack…

“One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal” (Alvin Toffler). Many times what causes one to lose their sense of sanity is several events joined together to create an enormous problem for the individual. In the tragedy Macbeth written by William Shakespeare this is exactly what happens, Macbeth is a relatively normal man who is currently fighting for his country however, after many self induced events that took place throughout the play in order to make Macbeth…

Shakespeare in the setting of Scotland during the medieval times. Macbeth is a nobleman with an exceptional amount of character flaws, one being his ambition. The witch’s knowledge of this flaw allows them to mislead Macbeth in actions that later develop the plot of the play. The witches advance the plot by motivating Macbeth to kill Duncan and Banquo, and later leading Macbeth to an arrogance in battle against Macduff. Three witches first appear to Macbeth and Banquo in Act I to reveal the…

throne by power. “Hie thee hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valor of my tongue…” (1.5.28-30) Here, Lady Macbeth plans on guiding Macbeth to go through with a violent plan, and she does this by guilt tripping him. Once Macbeth and his lady discuss how the murder of the king will go down, Macbeth gets cold feet and wants to back out. Lady Macbeth accuses her husband of being a coward and not loving her, saying, “From this time such I account thy love. Art thou…

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…

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 saying ‘I dare not wait upon I would’ or for him to ‘live a coward'. In addition to her being persuasive, it also seems as if she may be an impatient person, as she said, ‘I dare not wait’. She is also a manipulative woman since she is trying to make…

blood will have blood.” This quote represents and marks the insanity as a result of his guilty conscience, as further illustrated by the imaginative ghost. In addition, Macbeth succumbs to his guilty conscience at this very moment: “I am in blood stepp’d so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er.” This then marks his severe insanity provoked by his formidable guilt and regret, which led him spiralling downwards into his inevitable…

also believe that Shelley adds his inability to cope in her novel to make readers sympathize with Victor. Before Victor’s mother’s death took place, there is a paragraph in Frankenstein where Victor states, “It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things, or the inner spirit of nature and mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my enquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in the highest sense, the physical secrets…

Le roi est mort, vive le roi, the people say except for perhaps when the new king is the source of your cities calamity. In Oedipus the King, the brightest and the best are capable of seizing the throne: they just need beat a mythical beast that has captured a city. An unfamiliar concept to modern audiences who are only familiar with the romantic methods of the son –or daughter in recent history– claiming the crown upon their patriarch’s death. Or perhaps, if a society is lucky, or unlucky…