The witches represent Macbeth's evil ambitions. ... The three witches are capable of leading people into danger resulting in death, and of provoking evil aspirations. ... The witches do not guide Macbeth but they only represent his own wishes and thoughts. ... The importance of the blood-covered dagger is that it led Macbeth towards Duncan's chamber and symbolized the presence of evil. ... The ghost in each play represented an evil act that has happened, which in Hamlet was the killing of Old Hamlet and in Macbeth it was the killing of Banquo. ...

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In The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, he uses darkness to represent unnatural and evil found all over the play.William Shakespeare also includes the hideously evil witches into the play purposely to entertain King James I's fascination with witches. ... Darkness and night both exemplify the image of evil and the tone for the play. ... Shakespeare is an expert on showing evil through darkness by comparing one of the most evil places in the world to a well-known location in the play " Here's a knocking indeed! ... Just like the Chinese philosophy of Yin-Yang, in which Yin i...

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He must oppose this evil, which permeates his seemingly star-struck life from many angles. ... He must learn that evil is a necessary part of the harmonious order that God created. ... The impending dark period Hamlet must endure is represented by the sympathetic fallacy of the state of nature in Denmark. ... This readies the audience for the appearance of the ghost which will represent the perversion of the harmonious order that Hamlet must restore. ... He must oppose this evil, which permeates his seemingly star-struck life from many angles. ...

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Throughout Shakespeare's many tragedies, a plethora of female characters are introduced and represented in unique ways, none of which are as strong and bold as the females of "King Lear." ... Completely unlike her two evil, selfish sisters, Cordelia is representative of purity and authenticity. ... Her return can be seen as a symbol of triumph over her sisters, of good conquering evil, and balance being restored. ... While Goneril and Regan's lives run on an evil parallel, Cordelia is the good force that intersects them. ... Representing a schemer, a woman of pure evil or a girl of h...

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He is the epitome of an evil character, and prides himself on it. ... (Aaron V. iii 185-190) Aaron learned to be evil because he was in the service of evil, cruel hearted people. ... He is surrounded by evil, so he is evil. ... He guides them in ways to fulfill their most evil desires. ... This represents the fact that he is not in control of his own life. ...

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He is the epitome of an evil character, and prides himself on it. ... (Aaron V. iii 185-190) Aaron learned to be evil because he was in the service of evil, cruel hearted people. ... He is surrounded by evil, so he is evil. ... He guides them in ways to fulfill their most evil desires. ... This represents the fact that he is not in control of his own life. ...

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Throughout Titus Andronicus, a play written by William Shakespeare, hands and tongues are reappearing topics that represent the action and speech of each character-hands representing action and tongues representing speech, respectively. ... Shakespeare portrays Aaron's black skin color as a symbolism of evil. ... No one would think that Titus would do such a thing to save his sons' lives, but what he did, represented that he did in fact have a fatherly side. ... Tongue represents speech because without her tongue she was not able to say who the attackers were. ... I am no baby, I, th...

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Ghazoul states, "This represents a dominant orientation in a historical era in which the intellectuals of the subjugated Arab nation wanted to demonstrate their cultural standing by asserting that their heritage was no less than the legacy of the colonizers--and what better way to claim cultural equality than to show that the great canonical writer of the English is kin to Arabs, literally or figuratively- (1). ... The manipulative and evil Iago throughout the Shakespearean tragedy Othello perpetuates shrewd and devious behavior, especially for his own benefit. ... Othello, the most signi...

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A Great Tragedy: The good misunderstood and the evil accepted Shakespeare's King Lear and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is a detailed description of the consequences of one mans decisions that ends in a tragedy. ... Lear made a monumental mistake when he handed over his kingship to his two evil daughters, Regan and Goneril. ... The Angels represent Robertson 2 the internal conflict that Faustus is dealing with to make his d...

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Csiszar represents this loss of power and Lear's transformation by revealing how direct contact with the inhumanity of ruling class makes Lear question the validity of property, distribution of wealth and social inequality: "O, I have ta'en Too little care of this. ... Often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars - Edmond's eventual demise at the close of the play symbolises the triumph of good over evil. ... They are conveyed as being instinctively drawn to the pure evil that emulates from Edmond's being th...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Antony is represented as, 'a strumpets fool.' ... Antony struggles with the weakening of his masculinity, how Cleopatra has emasculated him, he refers to his sword as an image to represent his masculinity, he admits to Cleopatra, 'how much you were my conqueror and that my sword, made weak by my affection.' ... Shakespeare successfully portrayed Antony by the use of language, imagery, and parallels to the audience, the audience was able to relate and feel for the protagonist and sensed a feeling of waste at the end of the play, this is all crucial in tragedy, if the her...

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Not only is it used to represent the inner conflict going on inside Lear's head, but also is a reflection of what will happen when the king is wronged and his authority taken from him. ... Here he sees a man who represents all that mankind is really ("is man nothing more than this?")... His actions are based on a strong sense of grief and emotional pain, whereas that of his daughters in scene 7 is based on spite, wickedness and evil. ...

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The physical world that the eye can detect can accordingly hide its evils with physical attributes, and thus clear vision cannot result from the eye alone. Lear's downfall was a result of his failure to understand that appearance does not always represent reality. ...

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There are two main couples representing this theme and these are Claudio and Hero, Beatrice and Benedick. ... Though this didn't end up taking place, the chance that it would have could be a terrible event because these two were both very close friends and Don John's evil plot would be in fact ruining even more relationships. ...

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• Grade Level: High School