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    Guilt in ’Macbeth’ (William Shakespeare) Shakespeare is a well-known playwright that addresses the human emotions and motivations like ambition‚ greed‚ power‚ wealth‚ jealousy and love. In this play‚ Shakespeare has created many motivations that manifest in the characters. Macbeth‚ while being the cruel and somewhat weak-minded overlord/thane‚ still is humane enough to feel guilt. He isn’t immune to the after effects of his actions. Shakespeare uses many techniques to show this particular motivation/emotion

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    Macbeth: A Tragic Hero The character I chose is Macbeth. Macbeth is a very interesting character. The list of adjectives to describe him could go on forever‚ but I’ve selected the vital few. He displayed the following traits: ambitious‚ deceitful‚ submissive‚ relentless‚ and sadistic. When Macbeth told his wife what the witches had predicted she instantly knew what had to be done. Macbeth didn’t want to kill the King‚ but once his wife questioned his manhood and manipulated his judgment‚ he

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    Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations‚ is no different. One of the major themes in this novel is ambition and self-improvement. Dickens uses this as a universal idea for his novel‚ and from this theme he gets his title of Great Expectations. Another major theme in the novel is social class. Dickens uses the theme of social class to feed into his theme of ambition and self-improvement. With both ambition and self-improvement Pip is able to become a gentleman. Pip‚ from the lower class‚ has the longing

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    The actions of Macbeth and other characters show that appearances are misleading and Shakespeare created dialogue that constantly incorporates techniques that represent this duplicity. Equivocation is especially found in the line from Act 1 Scene 7: “False face must hide what the false heart doth know." Shakespeare uses repetition of the adjective false to link the appearance of the face and the heart. Macbeth’s facial expression is false as he is acting customary to the routine of everyday life

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    Ambition can cause the most steady and kind person to become corrupt‚ because depending on how strong their ambition is and how determined they are could cause some big problems for the surrounding people involved‚ for example; Abigail in Arthur miller’s the crucible calling people witches to earn a sort of petty revenge and to keep Elizabeth away so she could have john for herself not caring about what happened to her accomplices and others along the way‚ accusing those who posed as a threat to

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    Macbeth

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    Macbeth Assignment Tom Courtnadge Class 10R Ms. Solms English The Witches are The Most Powerful and Catalyst To Macbeths Crimes In this essay I will be discussing whether I believe the witches are the most powerful and catalyst to Macbeths evil doings. I will explain in three reasons what I believe as well as rebuttals to my opinion. I believe that the witches are the most powerful characters in the play and the catalyst of all of Macbeth’s crimes.

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    Macbeth Characterization Graphic Organizer Use this graphic organizer to collect your thoughts about characterization in Macbeth. As you read each scene‚ record what you learn about the character. Add the line from the play that supports your idea. Lady Macbeth   Observations Text Support Looks     Actions  -She talks Macbeth into killing the king.  - What beast was’t‚ then‚ That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it‚ then you were a man; And‚ to be more than what

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    YEAR 11 ENGLISH MACBETH ESSAY In Shakespeare’s tragedy‚ Macbeth‚ emotive language and soliloquy have been employed to emphasise the struggle for domination between the play’s main characters. The main theme of Macbeth is the desire for power and dominance‚ which is appropriately summarised by this quote: "Vaulting ambition‚ which o’erleaps itself And falls on the other" (I.VII.54) The two major events of the play‚ The Three Witches Foreshadowing and The Bloody Dagger scene‚ will be both be analysed

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    Macbeth Speech

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    violated a moral standard. The power of guilt is seen throughout Shakespeare’s tragedy‚ Macbeth. The protagonist of the play‚ Macbeth‚ violates natural order in "murdering king Duncan". This acts as a catalyst for Macbeth to undergo his journey of guilt‚ then restoration due to his unlawful and shameful deeds. After the murder of Duncan‚ when Macbeth returns to his room to join his wife. As any person would be‚ Macbeth is very shaken by his evil act. Killing a man‚ not to mention a beloved king is a sin

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    Macbeth is Bipolar One would say that being bipolar in today’s society isn’t that bad of a mental disease‚ but when you throw that mental disease into the power of a potential king‚ you live on a day to day basis and never know what could happen in the blink of an eye. Bipolar Disorder is one of the oldest mental disorders and its symptoms have been molded by differing theories over time until it actually had its own classification. For many years‚ Bipolar Disorder was linked to Schizophrenia. The

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