... what she feels it deserved to her and her husband. "Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the 2 crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty." (Act 1 Scene 5 Line 39-41) Her speech to the demons is both powerful and sinful. "She isn't sure ... because she is not fearless enough to kill, Lady McBeth relies on deception and manipulation rather than violence to achieve her ends. (http://www. academia.edu/5715178/The_Tragedy_of_Macbeth) We can all see that she can talk the talk but can she walk the walk. She wants, needs Macbeth to commit the murder, b...

• Word Count: 2179
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

... madness, he depicts through plot and action that it is unpredictable and often without morals. Shakespeare presents madness in many forms, in pretence, rage and true insanity. Ultimately it ends in the same fashion, death. It could be perceived that Shakespeare intended for the audience to see the ... unwittingly destroys Ophelia, by his pretence of insanity, which results in Ophelia being blamed for "the happy cause of Hamlet's wildness". [III.i.39] It is presumed that Ophelia is a tool used by Shakespeare to reveal Hamlet's true feelings, and also as a test of the reader's attitude to...

• Word Count: 1550
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood (1.5.34-39, 59-70).[9] It is possible that "poison in the ear" is an image of temptation. In that case, Claudius's later whispered plottings with Laertes, Ophelia, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are further ... all those his lands Which he stood seiz'd of, to the conqueror;... Now, sir, young Fortinbras, Of unimproved metal hot and full, Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there Shark'd up a list of lawless resolutes, For food and diet, to some enterprise That hath a stomach in 't. Which is no other - As it...

• Word Count: 1931
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... blasts from hell, be thy intents wicked or charitable, thou com'st in such a questionable shape that I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, Father, royal Dane: O, answer me!- (Act I, Scene IV, Line 39-45) In this speech by Hamlet, it is quite clear that he is unable to make a decision. Even though this spirit is right in front of him ... other events occur. Laertes and Fortinbras both wanted to avenge their father's deaths without truly thinking about the consequences of their actions. In the play, Laertes ends up being killed because of his need to avenge his father's death...

• Word Count: 1494
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School