... the throne for himself It appears that in the beginning of the play that Lady Macbeth is the one who's wearing the pants in the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. She suggest that in the beginning that Macbeth must kill King Duncan before he leaves Macbeth's castle. She also calls for the spirt to come and & ... quot; or in other words, she wants her femininity taken away from her, so she can play a part in the murderous scene. However, Macbeth is very hesitant about murdering the king, whereas Lady Macbeth demands it. Lady Macbeth is the one who makes all the plans and keeps ...

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... different stages of her morals, values and different facets of her personality. During the first three acts of the play Lady Macbeth is portrayed as an evil character, one that pushes and manipulates Macbeth through out the play. Mr. Linder states "It is Lady Macbeth's desire for Duncan to be king, that prompts her to seize the witches prophesies and interpret them as a future ... it "What is done cannot be undone". Showing one of her facets, a decisive, strong and sinister character, but in the final two acts of the play, this character changes drastically, Lady Macbeth emits the guilt...

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... any action in order to meet his fate or was it inevitable that certain things would occur? A third and final question that persisted throughout the play was the uncertainty of Lady Macbeth's feelings towards the murders. Did Lady Macbeth's guilt lead to compassion for the victims, thus showing that she did indeed have a conscience or was she purely evil, feeling no remorse at ... left these vital scenes open-ended in order to allow the reader to get what they wanted out of the play. Was it the witches" prophecies in the first scene of the play that had the greatest impact on Macbeth's m...

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... the psychic consequences of his crime. Thus, Macbeth himself, is responsible for the tragedy within the play. Lady Macbeth uses her sexuality to manipulate Macbeth into killing King Duncan, which makes her somewhat responsible for Macbeth's downfall. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth's relationship becomes tense when Lady Macbeth threatens their sex life. The imagery of impotence evoked by Lady Macbeth, suggests that Macbeth lacks the ability to perform sexually, he loses ... could not have "done the deed" without Lady Macbeth's devious encouragement, making her responsible for the tragedy in th...

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... because of its Scottish background and because it is based on the life of the real King Macbeth of Scotland. In this play, the protagonist, Macbeth, is caught in an exceedingly quick downfall. At the start of the play, Macbeth is introduced as the loyal and honorable Thane of Glamis. He is a military hero who has devoted his life to protecting his king and his ... of many different factors. Between the influences of both the witches and his wife, it is Macbeth's ambition that eventually leads him to his tragic demise. Since the start of the play, Lady Macbeth is shown as an ambitious wo...

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... many ways, and with any good marriage or kingship, you need to have trust. At the beginning of the play, Macbeth trusted his wife as he did anything she said even if he didn't want to. Furthermore, Duncan alongside his army all trusted ... Macbeth as he said, "He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust" (Macbeth,I,iv,13-14). However, as the play progressed, Macbeth began to slowly lose trust in his wife, and the people of Scotland began ... fellow soldiers became suspicious of him, even his fellow commander Banquo feared, "Thou play'dst most foully for't" (III,i,3). When Macb...

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... . The three witches are calling to each other through the storm, and preparing to meet Macbeth. The witches create a dark force over the play. Shakespeare used nature as darkness. Nature behaves in frightening and strange ways in the play. In the first act, Lady Macbeth reads a letter that Macbeth wrote her. He tells her in the letter that he is now the thane of Cawdor ... drawing images from a natural world and from playing on childhood emotions, such as fear of the dark. The readers are first introduced to witches preparing to meet Macbeth. It is a dark and stormy setting. The witches ...

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... are several imageries in the play. This play is filled with imageries of light and darkness. Macbeth is a battle of good versus evil. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are the two people who make up most of the imageries of light and darkness. The both of them with the murders they commit use darkness "Darkness is a tool that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth use to lead them both to ... "make thick her blood" as to stop its access to remorse, and, generally, to give her the strength to do the evil deed. She too calls upon darkness to play a role in hiding the deadly act, or rather "assist" her in the mu...

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... of the spectrum to the other; she begins as a take-control, no-regrets-type woman, but slowly changes into a mass of guilt and confusion by the end of the play. When Lady Macbeth first hears of the Witches" prophecy for her husband, she states that he is too cowardly to do what needs to be done, so she plans the first murder ... matter, and wants to intoxicate Duncan's chamberlains with wine, so as to send them into a stupor, followed by Macbeth killing Duncan with the Chamberlains" daggers. This organization and shamelessness is blatant throughout the beginning of the play. The night o...

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... is a threat to him, and so he decides to have him murdered at night. The three witches, and their queen Hecate contribute a lot of evil to the play by interfering with human lives. They lead Macbeth to his downfall: Hecate: "Shall raise such artificial sprites, As, by the strength of their illusion, Shall draw him on to his confusion: He shall spurn ... , and he is indicating that there is nothing wrong with murdering people and shedding their blood. Therefore as it is seen, Macbeth is a play filled with blood and bloody actions. In almost every part of the play there is darkness. At nig...

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... them evil and greed. This along with his wife makes Macbeth really turn to the darker side of his mind. The other strong influence on Macbeth's character is his wife, Lady Macbeth. Telling lady Macbeth about the prophecies is maybe one of the worst actions that Macbeth takes in the play. Once knowing the prophecies Lady Macbeth really turns toward evil even to the point of talking ... his wife more than himself. This shows him to be less of s man than needing to kill the king. Not listening to his conscience ultimately is the decision of Macbeth's that condemns him. Shakespeare's play "...

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... Duncan, but they also bring him to think of murdering Banquo, and his son by saying that Banquo's children will be kings. Throughout the whole play dark supernatural forces trick and deceive Macbeth. In Act IV the apparitions play with words and convince him to be "bloody, bold, and resolute", "to have no fear", and that "for none of woman born shall harm ... thinking about murdering Duncan for awhile and had discussed it with his wife. I think that his dark side had been battling his good side from before the play. After the evil side of Macbeth receives help from the witches and from ...

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... characters such as the three witches, there are manipulators like Lady Macbeth, and there are even murderers in the play such as Macbeth. One character who represents more positive traits than negative is King Duncan. King Duncan, too has flaws as the other characters do, but throughout most of his time in the play, King Duncan has a positive reputation and possesses admirable traits. Three ... Duncan acting very kindly and with a lot of hospitality toward not only Banquo, but Macbeth as well. Duncan is welcoming Macbeth with open arms into nobility as well as telling Banquo that he is ...

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... back on friends and loved ones as he becomes obsessed with the witches prophecy. An important relationship is the one between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. At the start of the play, Macbeth cares deeply for Lady Macbeth. He calls her things like his "dearest partner of greatness" (Act I; v line ii). He sees her as ... his equal partner. At the start of the play, Lady Macbeth is clearly in charge of the relationship. She is the one that convinces Macbeth to murder Duncan so that the witches prophecy will be fulfilled faster. She is the one that comes up ... ("She should have died hereafter ...

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... and last as a fighting solider in between we follow closely his thoughts and actions. What is your final impression of Macbeth? Is he a tragic hero or a villain? Macbeth is a tragic hero. His greatness led to his obsession and then to his death. The play illustrates his rise and fall through a tragic story of a man that fights himself. At the beginning, I see a man with ... actions to fulfill the witch's prophecies, he would probably have been happily living as the thane of Glamis and Cawdor at the end of the play. Macbeth creates walls around himself. He uses the witch's prophecies and...

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... honor by arranging the murder of his best friend, Banquo. Banquo's places Macbeth in a precarious situation; he is deeply entrenched in suspicion and there is no way out. Macbeth's vision of Banquo's ghost at a royal banquet only drives him closer to insanity. Macbeth has changed dramatically as a character throughout the play. Macbeth was tortured with remorse after Duncan's murder but upon hearing of Banquo's ... be evil but their prophecies convey truth. The evil forces that eventually claim him corrupt Macbeth. The witches may an example of the evil forces at work in the play, but Mac...

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... won", so he is believed to be a soldier. In the next scene the king Duncan is introduced, he plays a very important part in the play, as he is the victim of Macbeth's hamartia. A dying captain talks of "brave Macbeth", who has "faced the slave" (Macdonald, the traitor who is fighting against King Duncan) and "unseamed him from the nave to th"chaps". This ... the King of Norway. Duncan sentences the thane of Cawdor to death and announces that the current hero Macbeth will become the new thane of Cawdor. King Duncan describes Macbeth as "noble", however the way Macbeth plans to undermine ...

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... witches and by his ambition and greed to be king. Early in the play, Macbeth has some ambition to be king, but Lady Macbeth exceeds his ambition. Macbeth is very weak in character as opposed to his wife, Lady Macbeth who has strong power. Using her power for evil, Lady Macbeth eventually persuades Macbeth to kill the reigning king, Duncan. Duncan is a very wise and experienced ruler ... this is shown when he believes the prophecy the witches told him that Banquo's offspring would become kings. Throughout the play we see the character of Macbeth change not from just the way he thinks, bu...

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... of a great man. There are many tragic events that take place in this play. One of important ones is the killing of Duncan, which has been committed by Macbeth. The tragic downfall of Macbeth was determined by his three motives: the witches, Lady Macbeth, ambitions. The witches play a very important role in leading Macbeth to commit evil deeds. The three weird sisters are preparing a surprise for ... made him want his third prophesy, to become king, to come true as well. The readers notice that Macbeth's royal dreams and his ambition take over his good side. Throughout the play the witch...

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... evoke evil by reiterating the word "Come- which is addressed to darker powers. At this stage in the play, the audience feels somewhat intimidated and frightened of Lady Macbeth's domineering presence. Lady Macbeth calls upon evil to serve her with murderous thoughts and thus take away her femininity and all weakness. ... the audience to feel a certain amount of sympathy for her. At the start of the play Lady Macbeth is stronger in will than her husband is, but as the play progresses they exchange roles with Macbeth excluding his wife in pivotal decisions such as the murdering of the Macd...

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... nature, and then you will understand everything better." This can be applied to Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Macbeth is a play about a man who is given a prophecy by three witches which emboldens him to murder the characters in the play that are preventing him from becoming king. Throughout the play, nature runs parallel to the action so that readers effectively understand what is happening in ... foreshadowing what is to come. Second, plants are used in such a way that assists readers in understanding what is happening in the play. To start, plants are used in the scene where the wi...

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... and naturally evil character. He forcefulness and persuasion eventually wins Macbeth over. At this stage Lady Macbeth seems cold, emotionless and lacking any conscience. However as the play continues Lady Macbeth's insecurity comes to light as she grows weaker and eventually suffers a breakdown before committing suicide. However, the exact opposite happens to Macbeth himself. Macbeth starts paranoid and guilty, he is haunted by doubt ... in fact a ghost or an illusion of his subconsciousness of guilt or perhaps remorse. In Macbeth there are many soliloquies that are mostly Macbeth's conf...

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... Thane of Cawdor and even king. As the play continues, Macbeth slowly relies on the witches" prophecies. It becomes a remedy for Macbeth's curiosity, which corrupts his character. One of the witches" prophecies becomes true when King Duncan names Macbeth the Thane of Cawdor. At this point, Macbeth seeks advice from his wife, Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth provides a scheme for Macbeth to assassinate the King. She is manipulative and ... not do what he says he is going to do, which is to murder the king of course. This angers Macbeth and enables him to follow Lady Macbeth's scheme to kill the...

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... the classic tragedy, the protagonist controls his own demise by making bad choices and tricking his conscience. At the end of the play, Macbeth realizes that his failure is nobody's fault but his own. Macbeth could, conceivably, have led a much different life, a much happier life. As he thinks back over what happened to his ... he has over his actions. He does not have to do anything because of the prophecies. In one of his most intelligent lines of the play, Macbeth shows his early understanding of that control, and wonders that maybe "if chance will have me king, why, chance may crown...

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... , but did not tell him of the underlying dangers of the Apparitions. The witches contributed to Macbeth's boldness, overconfidence, and finally his destruction. If Macbeth had done what he knew was right, and followed his own ambition, he would have remained loved and respected throughout the play. Macbeth made many bold moves after hearing the witches tell him that he would one day be ... that Macduff would not able to harm him. "The power of man, for none of woman born/ Shall harm Macbeth./ Then live, Macduff; what need I fear of thee?- (IV, I, 91-93). Macbeth's overconfidence finally ...

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