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    manifestations within many of his plays‚ two of which are Hamlet and Macbeth‚ is explained by his fascination of the works of the human mind. Shakespeare devised the characterization of Hamlet and Macbeth himself in such a way‚ that he was able to investigate and show the nature of insanity and its many forms. In one of Shakespeare’s classics‚ Hamlet‚ the bard molds Hamlet’s character in such a way everything can be said in favor of and against the claim that Hamlet is

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    Macbeth is a tragic tale about a young man that is tricked into his doom.This is an  unfortunate story because Macbeth in the beginning was a loyal warrior that fighted for the  king. In the end he ends up being one of the most untrustworthy men in the story. In this tale  Macbeth is made thane of cawdor because the old cawdor betrayed the king and began to  fight for the other side‚ in the end he is executed and the position is giving to Macbeth. In  Macbeth defense it was not his fault that Macbeth was tricked into killing the King

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    In act two of MacbethLady Macbeth is used by William Shakespeare to digress from the normal gender rules common for that era‚ while at the same time keeping some of the key traits of womanhood‚ all to show that while inherently different and sometimes similar to men‚ women will always fall back on their subservient and cowardly ways. As the planning for Duncan’s murder progresses it seems like Lady Macbeth is the one urging and fighting Macbeth to agree with the plan‚ which is unusual because usually

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    Comparative burger The authors of Macbeth and The laboratory also have different ways of portraying their characters to be disturbed. One way they do this is that one of the characters feel guilt whereas the other finds some sort of joy from what she is doing. One way Shakespeare highlights Lady Macbeth to be disturbed is in Act 5 Scene 1. This is when Lady Macbeth says “The smell of blood is still there. All the perfumes of Arabia cannot sweeten this little hand” This quote is very important

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    pity to those who bring pain upon themselves; nobody pities a serial killer‚ yet in Frankenstein‚ the creature‚ which is in essence a serial killer‚ is given sympathy by the viewer and it doesn’t seem logical. In Macbeth‚ the reader gives compassion out to both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth for the grief they give themselves‚ while they kill people and feel terrible upon realizing their own actions. Even though the characters in these pieces of literature

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    A majority of the first question was discussed in reference to Macbeth’s nature and the fact that Lady Macbeth was the one that ultimately influenced him to do everything that he did. It was agreed that they were both equally guilty. I challenged this idea by expressing that Lady Macbeth is morally sound on every account and that if she contributed anything at all‚ it was about 10% of the actual problem. Although there was disagreement after that notion‚ I emphasized that there were a lot of dark

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    Lady Macbeth held her newly received letter in her hands. Reading it carefully as if the words themselves would run off the pages. “The witches met me on the day of my victory in battle‚ and I have learned that they have supernatural knowledge. When I tried desperately to question them further‚ they vanished into thin air. While I stood spellbound‚ messengers from the king arrived and greeted me as the Thane of Cawdor‚ which is precisely how the weird sisters had saluted me before calling me ’the

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    Mama and her sister hugged for the longest time and then Auntie hugged Erich who tried to squirm out of it. Then she went on to grab Irmgard in a tight embrace and finally Aunt Hilde put her strong farming arms around me. "I will miss you all so much. You have such joy in life‚ little Liesbeth." "It is a long journey but we must go to Belgium. I have heard that there is work there and it is safe‚" Mama told all of us and‚ "And we will start in the morning." Little did I know‚ as a child‚ we would

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    no harm. My hands are of his colour to wash my hands or not‚ thee gout of blood stays. Macbeth faulted in our quest‚ incapable of completing was’t needed to be done. I‚ more than a man than him‚ what man was he then? Weak-minded to want to alter the course foreseen before thy. No daughter‚ mother or woman could be as like a man as I. He who is a man‚ is’t too full o’ the milk of human kindness.

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    Macbeth is a play full of darkness‚ evil‚ and tragedy. It is the story of a man who goes against his conscience and commits a horrible deed which leads to his destruction and loss of everything he has around him. This includes the relationship he has with his wife‚ Lady Macbeth. In the beginning we see Lady Macbeth playing the more superior‚ more dominating role of the two. She comes across as a woman‚ who is persuasive and manipulative. She seems willing to trample anyone in order to get what she

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