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    and thoughtless‚ and they are selfish people that don’t care about who they hurt. Tom is very careless with his money‚ and flaunts about how rich he is. “‘Here’s your money. Go and buy ten more dogs with it’” (Fitzgerald 28). Tom buys Myrtle a dog without question. They don’t care what happens to the dog‚ he also spends with money like it’s no big deal. This shows the readers that Tom is careless and not

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    Ambition Before I could really start to write about ambition‚ I had to ask myself what ambition really was. What causes people to be ambitious‚ and what are the advantages and disadvantages of being an ambitious person? At first‚ I must admit it was fairly difficult to comprehend. But I found it to all come together when I relates it to another kind of person or group of people – dreamers. When I think of ambitious people I think of dreamers. These are the people with hopes of one day

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    Supernatural creatures exist only in our conscious mind. In the play "Macbeth‚" there are many interesting events which could be reviewed to show how supernatural events affect someone’s thoughts. First‚ in the play‚ Macbeth make his way to the witches and they give him three apparitions. The first apparition says "Macbeth!‚ Macbeth!‚ Macbeth!‚ beware of Macduff; beware thane of Fife. Dismiss me: enough." (IV.1.71-73). Here it gives Macbeth the idea that he should fear Macduff because he’s a threat to Macbeth’s

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    Act IV Quiz Answers 1. Apparition Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him. Character: this quote reveals Macbeth’s overconfident character. Macbeth becomes overconfident as a result of this apparition because he interprets it to mean that he is safe until Birnam wood moves to his palace gate‚ a feat that would take centuries. Theme: this quote develops the theme “there are negative repercussions for those who cannot decipher

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    Macbeth The tragedy of "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare‚ follows the fall from a man in a position of power‚ with a content life to a man with nothing but hollow words and a dammed soul. In this essay I wish to show to what level Macbeth s tragedy was his own carelessness. It all started with the statement "fair is foul and foul is fair"(act 1 scene 1) made by the three witches. Momentarily the downfall of Macbeth begins early on in the play when he and Banquo meet the three witches on the way

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    Ambition takes over In the story of Macbeth‚ by William Shakespeare illustrates ambition between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Overall in Macbeth ambition is a strong suit meaning that when Macbeth revealed to his wife that three witches have spoken to him about a prophecy. The prophecy that witches revealed to Macbeth was that he would become the “thane of cawdor‚thane of Glamis‚thou shalt be king hereafter” ( I.iii‚). After the witches have spoken to him about that he would become the ‚thane of cawdor

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    Macbeth’s Ambition Ambition can often times be considered the motivation in one’s life. It is one of the key sources to success. Ambition can blind one from determining from what’s right and what’s wrong. Having much ambition can have positive or negative effects. In Macbeth by William Shakespeare Macbeths ambition led to destruction of himself. One’s ambition can over power them and cause them to act differently. Macbeths ambition over powers him and controls who he really is not. “The prince

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    play‚ “Macbeth”. Gender provides the main source of conflict in the play through the distortion of traditional gender roles‚ the apparent contrasts between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth‚ and manipulation through gender. Throughout the play many characters act in opposition to their expected gender roles. The best example of this is Lady Macbeth. As a woman‚ supporting character‚ we expect Lady Macbeth to be gentle and compromising. She is quite the opposite. When Macbeth sends Lady Macbeth a letter

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    In the play ’Macbeth by William Shakespeare‚ the character is said to descend into madness and throughout the play we can see certain characters that would be said to have been instrumental to his downfall. It could be argued that the witches are more responsible than Macbeth himself. Although Macbeth takes the action that leads to his downfall‚ he perhaps would not have done this if the witches had not told him that he would be king. In Act 1‚ Scene 3‚ the witches tell Macbeth that he is thane

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    *“Lady Macbeth’s ambition‚ like that of her husband‚ leads her to an unnatural‚ paranormal realm of witchcraft‚ insomnia and madness. But unlike Macbeth she cannot deal with the evil she has unleashed.” Discuss* Shakespeare’s final play‚ Macbeth‚ tells us a story of a couple’s deadly ambition which corrupt‚ and ultimately‚ fix them in a world of evil. Lady Macbeth’s ambition‚ though‚ cannot be measured to Macbeth’s‚ because the way their ambition manifest themselves are completely different. The

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