exemplify Macbeth’s brave and loyal qualities which reflect the concept of an ideal warrior. The play opens with a battle between the Scottish and Norweyan troops. Macbeth‚ a fierce warrior‚ “disdain(s) Fortune‚ with his brandished steel‚/ Which smoked with bloody execution” (Shakespeare 1.2.17-8). Macbeth exemplifies his loyalty to the king by bravely facing off other warriors. He is so successful in battle that the medal of his sword exudes heat. The “bloody execution” symbolizes both Macbeth’s fierceness
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Throughout reading the play‚ Macbeth changes a lot from being a man of loyalty and honesty‚ to a man of whom is power hungry and greedy. This shows how the more power you receive the more power you want; which in many cases‚ such as this one leads to destruction. Many of the choices that Macbeth made were influenced by the power that he had‚ and this power began to take over him. This then lead to greed and destruction of not only others‚ but himself as well. In the beginning of the play‚ Macbeth
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Everything In Moderation‚ Dear. In the play Macbeth by Shakespeare‚ on page 147‚ the important truth of the play leaks out through Macbeth’s lines. In this one lucid moment‚ Macbeth realizes that life isn’t worth living without his wife‚ and he realizes he has gone through a metamorphosis into a power-hungry monster‚ both caused by his lust for power. The speech illustrates that power will always lead a man astray. In his hunt for power‚ Macbeth has indefinitely ended the lives of at least
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Odysseus and his flaws In Homer’s Odyssey‚ the hero is Odysseus‚ a man who left his home to fight the Trojan War and who comes back twenty years later to find his household overrun by suitors courting his wife Penelope. Throughout his journey‚ this rich and complex character battles life’s temptations towards purification‚ since he must overcome his sins and flaws in order to obtain redemption from the gods‚ thus returning home to his throne on the island of Ithaca. However‚ this purification process
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actions will unfold and the consequences will be set in play. In Macbeth‚ there are a few character’s whose decisions caused them suffering‚ pain‚ and tragedy. Nevertheless‚ Macbeth’s actions and consequences are a great example because Macbeth knew what his future held‚ but he chose not to let his future unfold on its own. Macbeth’s greediness caused him his life and the one thing he desired the
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casualty of inevitable fate. Though he is absolutely accountable of arrogance and gluttony‚ there is a certain amount of doom implied in the witches ’ prophecies. Along with his seemingly predestination‚ an amount of free will also contributes to Macbeth’s demise. The witches’ prophecies‚ his own arrogance‚ and Lady Macbeth influence him. The witches obscure his thoughts with what he believes should and will happen to his life‚ and he tries extremely hard to make the prophecies become a reality. His
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The importance of this soliloquy shows the effects of the point of view on the tragedy. Macbeth’s motivations and struggles within himself to murder Duncan‚ very crucial parts to the story‚ are shown here in a soliloquy of dialogue to himself instead of being blatantly stated by the author. I think this stresses the weight of the decision and how much it troubled Macbeth‚ a clever tactic used by Shakespeare to further the major conflict of Macbeth vs. himself and the consequences of his actions.
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Truth or Flaw? In every play or book that a person reads the characters are never perfect. They always have a flaw that causes a problem or conflict within the storyline. This is true for Hamlet’s character in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In several of Hamlet’s speeches he discloses many flaws in his character to the readers throughout the play. These are aspects that have thus far only been able to be seen as fragments in other speeches. One of Hamlet’s most renowned traits is his
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Jose castillo Periodr 5th Mr Jhonson Macbeth was not a victim of the Witch’s misleading prophecies and he is guilty of committing murder not because of Lady Macbeth’s manipulation but rather his ambitions to be king and have power. The struggle Macbeth underwent was his desires to get to the throne of Scotland and know right from his rights and wrongs. His wife‚ Lady Macbeth however urged him to commit murder and it was in their interest to get power no matter what the consequence
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everyone has flaws. Humans have flaws‚ as there is a need for heroes. An idealistic hero is best known as the Shakespearean tragic hero. A tragic hero has goals involving choices and be a man of great and admirable stature. During 44 BC‚ Julius Caesar ruled the Roman Republic into the powerful Roman Empire. Before Caesar’s rule‚ he left Rome for military services‚ and returned to rule Rome. In Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare‚ the character Brutus is a tragic hero possessing the flaw of pride leading
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