SUMMARY Scene I A doctor and gentlewoman are at the castle watching Lady MacBeth because she has been sleeping walking. When Lady MacBeth enters the scene she washes her hands saying there is blood on them and refers to the murders: Duncan‚ Banquo‚ and Lady MacDuff. Once she leaves the doctor looks stunned at such behavior. Scene II A group of Scottish lords gather together to discuss the military situation. It is decided that the Scottish army will meet the English army led by Malcolm
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Lady Macbeth’s character is painted in the segment of her reading of the letter in Act 1‚ Scene 5. She is presented full of lust for power and manipulative‚ using her cunning to get what she wants.In the letter. Macbeth writes to Lady Macbeth of his promotion to thane of Glamis and Cawdor‚ the Weird sisters‚ and the witches prophecies of him being king. She knows he is too moral and ethical to act on his ambition and chance to be king. She vows he will get what is rightfully his and will go to any
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William Shakespere wrote Macbeth around 1606 for King James VI. Macbeth involves 3 witches who make prophecies for Macbeth about taking the throne. Ambition and desire drive Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to kill King Duncan. Later Banquo is killed due to Macbeth?s greed for the throne and jealousy of it being taken away and Lady Macbeth appears to go mad and die. Macbeth is then defeated. These themes of murder‚ ambition‚ greed and desire appear throughout the play among others. These themes are factors
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Lady Macbeths Character At the beginning of the play Lady Macbeth is very eager on taking the throne and would do anything in order to get it‚ even. She is also very controlling over her husband and demanding. We first see Lady Macbeth in the play when she is reading a letter from macbeth who is explaining what his future holds from him according to the three witches‚ which is that he will take on the throne. Lady Macbeth already is very ambitious about this and starts to plan to kill King Duncan
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Lady Macbeth In the closing scene of "Macbeth"‚ Malcolm refers to Lady Macbeth as "a fiend-like queen". Do you agree with Malcolm‚ or do you think she is not as evil as he depicts? Lady Macbeth is a controversial figure. She is seen by some as a woman of strong will who is ambitious for herself and who is astute enough to recognise her husband’s strengths and weaknesses‚ and ruthless enough to exploit them. They see her in her commitment to evil and in her realisation that the acquisition
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Lilies of the Field Test 1. The setting of the book is a valley west of the Rocky Mountain Range‚ from spring through summer‚ in the mid 20th century. 2. A.) The major conflict‚ Mother Maria versus Homer‚ for Homer in the first half of the book is man versus man. It is how Homer and Mother Maria are both determined to get what they want for different reasons. Their personalities and lifestyles conflict with each other. B.) The person who is causing the conflict is Mother Maria (Mother Maria versus
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the tragedy Macbeth by Shakespeare lady Macbeth is stronger than her husband. She manipulates her husband Macbeth to kill Duncan. She is the root of all evil. She tells her husband to kill Duncan and afterwards she tried to confront him and act as if she is upset knowing that’s what she wanted. She seems to be to be stronger than her husband. Macbeth wouldn’t have murdered Duncan. In the relationship between Macbeth and lady Macbeth‚ lady Macbeth is the pushover. She fills Macbeth head up with
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happier and greater‚ My innocence means more than the precious metal that resteth upon Macbeth’s head. Foul hags‚ I hope the last of thee spake true. Thou hast a bright road ahead of thee Fleance I f thou can keepest a fair head thyself. Macbeths scheming counts for none as it is My family that shall take to the throne. ‘Thou shalt get kings though thou shall be none.’ Take good care Fleance and look after my wife. Mysterious chasms open Gaping holes of death Warning others of
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Lily Owens‚ the main character of the novel The Secret Life of Bees‚ is a protagonist and narrator of her story. She is fourteen years old and lives in Sylvan‚ South Carolina with her father T-Ray. She is beaten and abuse by him and is forced to work on his peach farm. When Lily was four‚ her mother decided to leave Lily and T-Ray. Lily ended up killing her mother accidentally and neither her nor T-Ray has forgotten. Lilly soon discovers her own qualities after she runs away from home with Rosaleen
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