... , and only then after Horatio has expressed his fears about Hamlet following it, What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, or to the dreadful summit of the cliff. The conversation between the ghost and Hamlet serves as a catalyst for Hamletlater actions and provides insight into Hamlet character. The information the ghost reveals incites Hamlet into action against a situation ... up their masters. This is where the prophetic apparitions appear. The first apparition is Macbeth own head (later to be cut off by Macduff) confirming his fears of Macduff. The second apparition tells Macb...

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... , and only then after Horatio has expressed his fears about Hamlet following it, What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, or to the dreadful summit of the cliff. The conversation between the ghost and Hamlet serves as a catalyst for Hamletlater actions and provides insight into Hamletcharacter. The information the ghost reveals incites Hamlet into action against a situation he ... call up their masters. This is where the prophetic apparitions appear. The first apparition is Macbethown head (later to be cut off by Macduff) confirming his fears of Macduff. The second apparition tell...

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... , and only then after Horatio has expressed his fears about Hamlet following it, What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, or to the dreadful summit of the cliff. The conversation between the ghost and Hamlet serves as a catalyst for Hamletlater actions and provides insight into Hamlet character. The information the ghost reveals incites Hamlet into action against a situation ... up their masters. This is where the prophetic apparitions appear. The first apparition is Macbeth own head (later to be cut off by Macduff) confirming his fears of Macduff. The second apparition tells Macb...

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... , and only then after Horatio has expressed his fears about Hamlet following it, What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, or to the dreadful summit of the cliff. The conversation between the ghost and Hamlet serves as a catalyst for Hamletlater actions and provides insight into Hamlet character. The information the ghost reveals incites Hamlet into action against a situation ... up their masters. This is where the prophetic apparitions appear. The first apparition is Macbeth own head (later to be cut off by Macduff) confirming his fears of Macduff. The second apparition tells Macb...

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... 's guilt eventually is what drives her to insanity and right before the battle between Macduff and Macbeth, she commits suicide. Macbeth has a short soliloquy about how life is a "dismal treatise" (12) and is "but a walking shadow, a poor player/ That struts and frets his hour upon the stageIt is a tale/ Told by an idiot/ Signifying nothing." (24-28 ... ...

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... is about the reverse gender roles and being someone you are not. After they have done the horrible acts, they regret it and it drives both of them right off a cliff. They cannot stand to live their lives anymore. Macbeth sees ghosts of Banquo and will not go back and see Duncan's room. Lady Macbeth commits suicide because of what she ... ...

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... , and driven by guilt, she commits suicide, just as this passage foreshadows with the farmer hanging himself. The second person is an equivocator in other words, a treasonous liar. The second sinner is a man who more often than not, tells lies and is deceitful. The Porter notes that the man has "committed treason enough for God's sake." This is a representation of Macbeth, who is ... frame the guards watching over King Duncan, she sleepwalks, she is tormented by a spot on her hand reminding her of her sin, and is eventually driven to commit suicide. The second sinner knocks on the gates ...

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... powers, although they just step out of the light. Finally, Kurosawa does not even have witches; he has a spirit. A singular androgynous spirit that resides in a forest, while Wells" met on a cliff, Polanski's met on a beach, and Nunn's met in a circle on a stage. Due to the nature of the Japanese culture, Kurosawa took liberal choices in presenting his "witch" to cater to ... ...

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... Cawdor? Of course, once MacBeth, who, living in such a society, was superstitious, is presented with Cawdor's title, he believes that the other prediction, namely his kingship, must come true. Banquo notes the danger inherent in believing the witches' predictions; he says, "Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root/,That takes the ... ...

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... and his wife. Macbeth slowly became comfortable with killing people and does it with ease at this point. For example, after Macbeth became king he begins to worry about the second part of the witch's prophecy, when Banquo's sons become kings. Macbeth knowing he will not have any kids, he fears the idea "the seeds of Banquo kings. Rather to come ... country of Scotland. Once king, there wasn't much more for Macbeth to do but keep in mind of the witches second prophecy of what was to come. Other than that it would be nothing but downfalls since the witches gave him that second prophecy. T...

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... , he still kills the king, which leads his fears to grow stronger, as it can be perceived throughout most of the play. Although, after meeting with the witches for the second time, he starts feeling more confident and invulnerable, his fears reappear again when he has to face Macduff; therefore, it is a fact that fear becomes an ever-present torture that ... fears and moved by evil ambition, he kills Duncan and, as a consequence, his fears grow stronger inside of him for most of the play. A second time in which we notice how afraid Macbeth feels is in the Second Act. Right after murderin...

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... heat oppressed brain" (2.1.37-39). This remark reveals to us how deeply troubled the Thane really is. Even at this late in the game he still seems to be having second thoughts on going trough with the murder. This tells us a great deal about the turmoil that is going on in the Thane's conscience. Even at this late stage he is ... . Macbeth acts heated, lawless and unstable as he inquires the reality of the dagger that is tempting him to Duncan's chamber (O"Brien 67). During the second part of the speech Macbeth addresses what really is on his mind: the gory feat he is going to commit. Yo...

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... with clothes that can be worn. Another recurring theme in Macbeth is the theme of birds, ones usually symbolic of ill or bad-omen. Several can be seen in the second act. While Macbeth kills Duncan, Lady Macbeth thinks she hears an owl. "It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman" (2.2.2-4). She calls the owl a fatal bellman, who was a man ... happening because owls normally hunt mice and would never fly as high as a falcon to hunt and kill it. A third and very important theme is that of equivocation. In the second act, the porter refers to an equivocator " who committed treason eno...

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... death. This is also shown in Macbeth's belief and interpretation of the witch's prophecies. This is especially seen in the second instance where Macbeth visits the weird sisters, his arrogance resulting from his ambition causes him to distort his perceptions of second batch of prophecies. [Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth beware Macduff .for no woman born Shall harm Macbeth Macbeth shall never be vanquished ... until Birnam Woods to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him.] Because he believed that the second batch of prophecies were completely empty threats, he failed to act properly as he...

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... works beside the action in the play to convey a certain emotion. For example, at the start of the play the witches convene near a battlefield. At this time we hear the Second Witch say, "When the hurly-burly's done,/ When the battle's lost and won"(I.i.3). While the "hurly-burly" is referring to the battle between Scotland and Ireland ... , "Let it come down." (III.iii.19) just before he attacks Banquo. In conclusion pathetic fallacy compliments the action by adding emotion and foreshadowing what is to come. Second, plants are used in such a way that assists readers in understanding what...

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... his own ambition. Throughout the play, there are three prominent themes that lead to his tragic downfall. Firstly, sight is explored through Macbeth's ambitions to become successful and prosperous. The second theme is lightness versus darkness. This demonstrates Macbeth's transition from nobility to becoming a tyrant. Lastly, blindness is an important theme due to Macbeth not being able to see the consequences ... vaulting ambition, which o'verleaps itself and falls on th' other-"(Shakespeare 1.7.25-28). His words prove that the only reason he wants to kill Duncan is to make the second ...

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... , Macbeth allows his devilish wife and greed to consume him, driving him to commit a self-fulfilling prophecy and rid of his loving king. Later, the "midnight hags" make a second appearance as they utter their incantation, "Double, double toil and trouble;/Fire burn, and cauldron bubble" (4.1.20-21). They reappear conveniently in the heat of emotion for Macbeth ... witches, yet again, ambiguously prophesy three things through apparitions that would eventually lead to Macbeth's tragic downfall. In the first apparition, Macbeth is warned to "beware Macduff;" (4.1.81), the second apparition...

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... which his, "brandished steel, which smoked with bloody execution." Macbeth fought so courageously that the battle " memorized another Golgotha." In this case Macbeth is definitely a hero. Second, in the beginning of Act 1 scene 2 Duncan is in Awe of how valiant and noble of a soldier Macbeth is. " O valiant cousin! Worthy gentlemen." Even though Macbeth is Duncan ... light see my black and deep desires." He basically explains that his ambition holds dark and evil desires, and one of them as we know is to become king. Second, the prophecies have desensitized Macbeth to the thought have h...

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... the play, shows that Lady Macbeth is both good and evil. Lady Macbeth shows extreme confidence in her doings. She doesn't seem to second guess her choices because of that confidence. Now Macbeth shows weakness when he second guesses his plan and wants to immediately back out because he is frightened by the consequences. He shows this when he says, "If ... ...

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... ! Beware Macduff. Beware the thane of Fife " Macbeth was just told by this apparition that Macduff is a threat and he should beware of Macduff. Then Later in the scene the second Apparition appears and speaks to Macbeth, saying, "Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth. " The Apparition is ... witches were possibly the most influential characters on Macbeth during the play. For example, the first witch says, "All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis! ", and then the second witch says "All hail, Macbeth! Hail to the...

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... product of Macbeth's guilty mind. He is uncertain about what he has to do. The dagger represents his conscience which will finally lead him to the murder of Duncan. The second predominant theme in Macbeth and particularly in this passage is order and disorder and how Macbeth's figure dramatically changes from one to the other. At the beginning of the play ... story and therefore the start of Macbeth's descent into hell. The murder and the vision of blood are key elements to this scene. First of all, a dagger is a weapon and second of all it is the weapon Macbeth will use to kill Duncan....

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... hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter"(1.3.48-50) Macbeth thinks nothing of the first prophecies until he realizes that the second prophecy has come true. King Duncan has pronounced Macbeth Thane of Cawdor. He says, "No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive/Our bosom interest. Go pronounce his present death ... demise of Macbeth. They give him a potion that causes him to see three apparitions. The first one is an Armed Head that warns Macbeth to " beware Macduff"(V.1.93-94). The second is a Bloody Child who tells Macbeth that " n...

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... about to be committed. To summarize, I think that it was mostly Lady Macbeth's fault that Macbeth went out and murdered so many people. After all, even though Banquo was Macbeth's second murder, and Lady Macbeth was not involved with the planning of the whole thing, she did provoke him in the first place. If she didn't convince him that he could ... the crime whether or not he does it, and once Macbeth killed one person he didn't have much of a choice but to do it again. Macbeth's innocence was gone the second he killed King Duncan, and after that, it was all his doing, "Still it cried,...

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... murderers failure to kill Fleance strengthens Macbeth's belief that the witch's prophecy might be true and therefore he is even more ensnared by them. Macbeth visits the witches for the second time in Act 4 Scene 1. The witches and their apparitions give Macbeth another three prophecies. The first apparition warns Macbeth to beware of Macduff. The ... second apparition tells him not to fear the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm him. The final apparition tells Macbeth that he shall not be vanquished until " ... ...

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... . One of these perplexing questions that arose throughout the reading was whether it was the witches" and their prophecies or Lady Macbeth that had a greater influence on Macbeth's murderous actions. A second inquiry that came up was one having to do with fate and Macbeth's actions in attempts to change it. Did Macbeth have to take any action in order to meet ... murder. Had Lady Macbeth agreed with Macbeth's refusal to kill Duncan, Macbeth would not have gone through with it, allowing fate to take its course. On the topic of fate, a second inquiry arises. Did Macbeth have to take any ac...

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