FATE AND FORESHADOWING IN MACBETH Fate plays a large role in Shakespeare's Macbeth. ... Macbeth does it, as does Lady Macbeth. ... In Macbeth, it seems, the witches are a transient hybrid of those in time and those not in time. ... This of course proves to be an illogical paradox when examined analytically, but Shakespeare's great work is brimming with paradoxes ("Fair is foul, and foul is fair" I.i.11). ... For instance, does Macbeth actually have a choice over what he will do or become? ...

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The Prophecy of Macbeth The prophecy in the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare gets the plot going immediately as it starts. ... This paradox instantly tells the reader that strange things will happen in this play. ... They decide to kill Duncan, the king, for it is the only way for greedy and impatient Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to accelerate their fates. ... The weird sisters told Macbeth that he should beware Macduff, that he is safe until Birnan Wood comes to Dunsinane, and that no man born of women can harm Macbeth. ... Macduff can hurt Macbeth, and ends up killing him. ...

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Like Macbeth, Lady Macbeth must make some very similar decisions. For example, Lady Macbeth decides to help Macbeth act on his decision to murder king Duncan. ... Lady Macbeth must act quickly to draw attention away from him by telling the guest Macbeth is ill. ... However this is not the case as the witches, just like Lady Macbeth, easily manipulate Macbeth with all there riddles and paradoxes. ... This is exactly what happened to both Macbeth and his wife Lady Macbeth. ...

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With Duncan dead, Macbeth can sit a-top the throne and be king, fulfilling both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's dreams. ... Likewise, Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth to "Look like th" innocent flower,/ But be the serpent under "t" (1.6 76-77). ... The filthy witness upon Macbeth's hands is the blood itself. ... In essence, their lives are a play and they are merely the characters (haha paradox). Along with that, after Macbeth hires men to kill Banquo, his ghost returns, haunting Macbeth. ...

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Using paradox and dramatic irony he demonstrated the devastating effect of a delusionary lifestyle. ... Because of the reports Duncan received of Macbeth, stating that he fought well, he assumed that Macbeth was trustworthy. ... Analogous to Duncan's trust in Macbeth, Macbeth placed his reliance in the three Werd Sisters. ... This paradox appeared several times in Macbeth. ... While Macbeth accepted the prophecy, he also saw the paradox of his future. ...

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Discuss the role of the witches in the play "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare The witches play a significant part in the play "Macbeth." ... "Macbeth" was a play like this. ... Macbeth replies that he is grateful for this caution. ... The witches tell Macbeth to listen but not speak. ... Lady Macbeth first learns of the witches" words from a letter which Macbeth sends to her. ...

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By the end of Sheakspeare's "Macbeth," Lady Macbeth has proven that her imagination is stronger than her will. ... Lady Macbeth is now in awe of Macbeth, a contrast to when Macbeth was in awe of Lady Macbeth's infanticide analogy. ... Macbeth is now "customarily" psychotic, according to Lady Macbeth. ... I find it extremely paradoxical that she earlier thought that a few drops of water would clear her of such a "deed" when she was in the actual act of the murder. ... Macbeth was unfortunately reliant upon most of what Lady Macbeth s...

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In act 3, scene 2, as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's relationship begins to deteriorate, their language reveals a weary Lady Macbeth, and an insecure and resolute Macbeth. ... Furthermore, diction reveals a weary Lady Macbeth and Macbeth's insecurity and resolve. ... Lady Macbeth still tries her best to influence Macbeth, however, Macbeth seems to have little to no regard for what Lady Macbeth is trying to say to him. ... Macbeth's paradoxical statement reveals his resolve. ... Thus, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth's language reveal a weary Lady Macbeth and an insecure and resolute M...

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The story of Macbeth centers around the main character of Macbeth, who is approached by three witches, and informed that he will be the next King. The current King is Duncan, a dear friend of Macbeth. In order to gain the title of King, Macbeth must murder Duncan. ... The paradox, "I have thee not, and yet I see there," (II, 2, 35), stresses the conflict Macbeth is having between distinguishing appearance and reality. ... As we now transfer towards the closing of the play we can see how Macbeth has changed as a person after discovering that his wife, Lady Macbeth, is dead. ...

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Essay for Macbeth Act I The Tragedy Macbeth from William Shakespeare, written in 1606 deals with the struggle within Macbeth between his ambition and his sense of right and wrong. ... They predict Macbeth, that he is going to obtain the title of Thane of Cawdor and after that the throne of the King of Scotland (Macbeth Act I sc iii 49). What appears good and should fulfill Macbeth with joyful hope, becomes in the course of this play the reason for Macbeths' ruin. ... Their conversation is also filled with paradoxes, this leads to confusion, "when the battle's lost, and ...

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The paradox is that the bellows and the fan which "cool a gipsy's lust" do not cool but enflame; their purpose, as instruments, is to do so. ... In the first scene of Macbeth, we are introduced to three witches. ... But once Lady Macbeth toys at the idea of Macbeth's manliness and bravery, Macbeth comes up with a plan to achieve the other prophecies the witches told him.   ... The decision in which  Macbeth committed seemed out of his guilt and misery.   ... Responsibility for introducing the prophecies to Macbeth and for the introduction of other ideas came from the three old w...

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The supernatural components in Macbeth represent evil. ... The witches work their mischief on Macbeth. The witches" prophecies spark Macbeth's ambition. ... Their speeches are full of paradox and equivocation that are misinterpreted by Macbeth. ... Their predictions prompt Macbeth to murder Ducan. ...

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Paradoxically, it is forgotten by the audience in Shakespeare in Love, that the patriarchal society is in fact led by a woman - Queen Elizabeth - and it is in this ignorance and lack of her power to change circumstances that the powerlessness of women is exemplified in the film (Author Unknown, 2006). ... This theory is stabilised via many of his female characters such as Lady Macbeth and Gertrude in Hamlet, as according to Dall (2000): "Through Gertrude's marriage to Hamlet's uncle and also through Lady Macbeth's unbridled political ambition, Shakespeare dramatizes real p...

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Three other Shakespeare plays have ghosts as characters: Julius Caesar Macbeth and Richard III. ... Hamlet's first words in the play show him playing with words in order to state a paradox: "A little more than kin, and less than kind". ...

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Gatsby, the Player -----Character Building of Great Gatsby Gatsby's greatness lies not in his prospect of his future, but in his uncompromising insistence to "repeat the past"(116), when he irremediably fell in love with Daisy. The past life, to Gatsby, is the type that he can only conceiv...

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Boys played the female roles in Shakespeare's theater, and they might have been more convincing as young girls than as more mature women (though audiences presumably found a boy playing Cleopatra or Lady Macbeth satisfactory). ... Much of the rest of her speech examines a paradox in traditional European attitudes toward love as they concerned women: a woman should fall instantly in love upon first seeing her beloved, but it was highly improper for her to reveal her feelings. ...

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Orson Welles's "Citizen Kane • "For what profit a man, if he gains the world and loses his own soul?" Matthew 16:26; Mark 8:36 CITIZEN KANE is Orson Welles's greatest achievement--and a landmark of cinema history. Every moment of the film, every shot, has been choreographed to perfection....

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(Emmanuel Radnitsky 1890-1976) Armed with his exotic new persona, Man Ray broke from the cocoon of his early life. One day at Stieglitz's he heard about an ongoing series of art classes and lectures sponsored by the Ferrer Modern School, which had just moved to a brownstone building at 63 East 107t...

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