1. Macbeth
"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.... In Shakespeare's Macbeth, Lady Macbeth serves as a complete counterexample against those biases. ... To beguile the time, Look like the time. ... Look like th' innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.... And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool....
The play "Macbeth" was written by William Shakespeare in the Jacobean era. ... Her words become more rhythmic and what she says seems almost like an incantation. ... As she goes on, she becomes even more witch-like, using pagan imagery such as a raven and evil spirits. ... Though men in the middle ages were considered high above women in standing, it was still a source of great disgrace to break your word to a Lady of the gentry after you had given it. ... This is left to the discretion of the audience to decide by Shakespeare, as are many things in the play. ...
Movie Review of Macbeth Shakespeare's original version of Macbeth is truly a classic piece of literature. ... In this scene, Polanski actually takes you into the head of Macbeth and shows you exactly what Macbeth would have been seeing, if he had been alive. ... He also looked like a young clean cut man with no beard. ... You could also kind of tell what was going to happen by the music. ... Overall I think Polanski did a very good job of bringing Shakespeare's Macbeth from a novel to a movie. ...
Shakespeare is a master at pointing out one's character flaws and showing how those flaw bring down that person or society in general. In Shakespeare's Macbeth he does just that. ... His ambition was use to do a good thing, but if you stop to think; would any of this happened had he not killed Macdonwald. In the next scene we see the witches doing things that witches like to do. ... Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his facilities so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels trumpet-tongued against The deep damnation of his ta...
Exploring a ruthless reality, William Shakespeare's Macbeth highlights human nature's desire for power, and the lengths one will go to obtain it. ... Shakespeare's characterization of the key narrative figures, use of imagery and symbolism, depicts the respective roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in the ensuing tragedy. ... " Lady Macbeth further denigrates Macbeth's masculinity; she manipulates "brave" Macbeth's manhood and patriotic sense of glory and power, in telling him "when you durst do it, then you were a man.... Shakespeare created a manipu...
Unlike Shakespeare's great villains, such as Iago in Othello and Richard III in Richard III, Macbeth is never comfortable in his role as a criminal. ... Like Macbeth, Banquo thinks ambitious thoughts, but he does not translate those thoughts into action. ... He also wonders whether they are really women, since they seem to have beards like men. ... "Your children shall be kings,"" he says to his friend, to which Banquo responds: "You shall be king- (I.iii.84). ... As they leave, Macbeth whispers to Banquo that, at a later time, he would like to speak to him privately about what has transp...
Harold Bloom, an American literary critic, says that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's relationship is the "best marriage in Shakespeare" at the beginning of the play, equal in love and ambition. ... In order to become king, a title that he would like to be, he would have to murder, but he is too kind and decent to do so. ... Lady Macbeth becomes so fond of the idea of becoming Queen of Scotland that she mocks her husband by questioning his masculinity and saying that she would stop at nothing in order to get what she wants and she would never break a promise; "How tender 'tis to lov...
It is also important because Shakespeare depict! ... He shows this when Ross gives him the title of Thane of Cawdor and despite the fact that the witches had just told him that he would become Thane of Cawdor he is still surprised, this is shown when he says, " Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?" ... This becomes obvious when Macbeth says, "They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly,/ But bear-like I must fight the course. ...