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    Before the play begins there was a lot of smoke and three witches came out but not for very long but they say something about meeting again to see Macbeth. A lot of the play seems to be on the battlefields. There were a lot of different settings like Macbeth’s private chambers, the woods and the courtyard. Their main location was Scotland. There was Kings and the way they talk it seems like they are in the 1600’s. I noticed the witches always rhyme when they talk as well. All the characters…

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    entertain his audience. In this play, power leads to the killing of lots of people. The theme of Blinding power can lead to ones downfall develops through out Macbeth. This theme of the death of Duncan begins to develop at the start of the play. The witches telling Macbeth was going to become king was the start. Macbeth gets the idea that he will become king. Macbeth starts talking to his wife lady macbeth. She convinces him the only way to become king is if they kill him. Macbeth decides that…

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    have witches, saving family and friends, and destroying bad people, Return to Halloweentown focus on breaking the curse on the necklace while Twitches Too addresses setting their father free from the dark shadow. The first difference between Return to Halloweentown and Twitches Too is between both dimension having their ups and downs with college and not so normal life. Return to Halloweentown…

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    mention he was already the thane of cawdor and the thane of glamis. But soon the guilt hits macbeth as does thirst for power. Macbeth's downfall is associate to a sense of overconfidence and unchecked greed. Macbeth is mainly influenced by the three witches who predict that he will be king. “All hail macbeth, hail to thee, thane of glamis. All hail macbeth, hail to thee, thane of cawdor. All hail macbeth, that shalt be king…

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    characters are responsible for MacBeth’s demise. They are the three witches, Lady MacBeth, and MacBeth. “Our fears about Banquo stick deep… (39)”, “Under him my greatness is threatened.” This shows the cold and calculating nature of MacBeth. Therefore, the characters responsible for MacBeth’s downfall are the three witches, Lady MacBeth, and MacBeth. The first character(s) responsible for MacBeth’s death are the three witches. The three witches are the first one’s responsible for MacBeth’s…

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    war after victory over his rebels, the witches became instrumental in his entire life. He became superstitious which transformed his character and mind. Being superstitious on Witches Prophecies ultimately led him to become ambitious, inflicted his mind with fear and jealous of others becoming the next king. Believing too much on prophecies which are scientifically not proven may mislead our day to day actions. Throughout the play, he has considered witches as his true inspiring wish…

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    Is there such a thing as free will? Or is there free will with a set fate no matter what choices we make? Shakespeare’s Macbeth dwells upon this subject often. Three witches, who claim to know Macbeth’s future approach him. They hail him as thane of Glamis, Cawdor, and as King of Scotland. The audience knows that he is the thane of Glamis and that Cawdor will soon be given to him, but the idea of becoming king never occurred to him until this moment. So the question remaining is: Did the weird…

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    the first place it is worth noting the situation of this scene of the witches within the plot of Macbeth because, in the text of William Shakespeare appears as Scene III, while in the adaptation of Orson Welles develops in the first scene, nothing else begin the film, following the presentation of the witches that Shakespeare performed in Scene I. In the film version of Kurosawa, Throne of Blood, the first scene of the witches is omitted from the text and this third scene that concerns us,…

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    Macbeth And Greed

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    redemption however. You see Macbeth was a tragic hero and possibly one of the best examples of one. To begin with macbeth’s tragic fall we start with the three witches. Macbeth first meets the witches as more of a noble man than anything. He was a man who was loyal to his king and had a lot of pride in his life and himself. The three witches told him a prophecy of power and greed “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!” “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!” “All Hail,…

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    Aristotle’s criteria for a tragedy involves three main subjects: values, characters, and a conclusion; William Shakespeare’s Macbeth incorporates these critical topics. The values are supernatural powers which determines what is right and what is wrong. The character in a tragedy must be noble by birth and by action. In the conclusion, the character must understand why he or she fell, accept punishment, and order must be restored. By including these, Macbeth fits Aristotle’s criteria for a…

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