Robert I of Scotland

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    but her guilt won’t go away. Another example of hand being used to develop the play’s tone would be when Macbeth is preparing to kill Duncan. While Macbeth is waiting to kill Duncan, he sees a dagger in front of him and says, “Is this a dagger which I see before me, / The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee” (2.1.33-34). In this quote, Macbeth is imagining a knife floating in mid air, and he is trying to reach for it. This quote darkens the plot, because it shows the beginnings of…

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    an unforgiving person. Macbeth was a respectful man who served the king with great loyalty. He feels guilt already because he is the King’s good friend and doing this deed will destroy him inside. Macbeth says “ He’s here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself”…

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    which shows that Macbeth’s mental health has greatly declined since he hallucinates. Macbeth not only begins to see things, but begins to lose what rationality he has left, saying “Prithee, see there! Behold, look! lo!/ how say you? Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too/...GHOST OF BANQUO vanishes” (III.iv.82-84). Macbeth now shows clear signs of mental health issues as he convinces himself that Banquo sits at the table with him. During this event, Shakespeare clearly shows that…

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    Macbeth Villain Quotes

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    His state of mind is so lost because of the deaths and eventually ends up seeing Banquos ghost at the banquet that he hosts. It states in The Tragedy of Macbeth, “Though canst not say I did it. Never shake thy gory locks at me” (3, 4, 50-51). Macbeth communicates with Banquos ghost in front of people that only he sees and this shows how he has gone insane. This affects the plot because many see how there king has lost it and how Macbeth…

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    Otzi Murder

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    According to the evidence, Otzi was murdered because somebody was jealous of his wife, specifically his brother. In some cultures, when the husband dies, his brother has to take care of the widow and offspring,this is called levirate marriage. Otzi was found in the 20th century by hikers in the Alps, who didn't handle him with care. They believed he was a hiker that got lost in a storm and never made it out. They found out he was about five thousand years old, when they carbon…

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    she wants the King dead more than anything. She will murder him if Macbeth cannot, no matter what it takes. According to the story she even says, “But even as the baby was smiling up at me/I would have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums/And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you/Have done to this” (I. VI.…

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    Violence Portrayed within Macbeth Violence, the act of one demonstrating and performing cruel behavior towards others or its surroundings, is shown all throughout Shakespeare's tragic play, Macbeth, where many bad events took place. Yet violence plays an important role in this play for it is to show the people in the time of the macbeth. Lady macbeth being the main reason behind most of the crucial violence in this play, controlled Macbeth and led him to kill Macdonwald, Banquo, and many other…

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    In the novel, I Am legend, the vampires go through various adaptations from the current normal to help them develop culturally, environmentally, and evolve to become the new normal. Various changes happen to help advance the development of the new normal. Some examples are how the vampires are able to go out into the light without getting hurt, the advancement of having more of a human language and culture, and even learning about the threats in the world that could potentially hurt them. While…

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    7.2 billion People are living on earth and not one is without a flaw. Due to our sinful nature, everyone has flaws and one can say that some flaws are worse than others. For Macbeth, his ambition was his hamartia, his fatal flaw. Being ambitious is not a bad quality to possess, it means that you have determination to work hard towards your goal however; Macbeth had unchecked ambition that turned into greed. Macbeth had unchecked ambition that turned into greed and insanity, causing him to make…

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    almost immediately her manipulative and controlling behavior when we are introduced to her in Act 1, Scene 5. In this scene, Lady Macbeth receives a letter from her husband. The witches prophecies fuel her ambitions for her husband to become King of Scotland. Lady Macbeth not only encourages Macbeth to kill King Duncan, but she makes the plans herself. She knows that Macbeth has great ambitions but that he is…

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