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    2 Original Text | Modern Translation | Scene I | | [Inverness. Court of Macbeth’s castle.] | | Enter Banquo‚ and Fleance‚ with a Torch* before him. | | BANQUO:How goes the night‚ boy?  | BANQUO:How’s your night going‚ boy? | FLEANCE:The moon is down; I have not heard the clock.  | FLEANCE:The moon’s down. I haven’t heard the clock chime. | BANQUO:And she goes down at twelve.  | BANQUO:The moon goes down at twelve. | FLEANCE:I take’t ’tis later‚ sir.  | FLEANCE:I think it’s later

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    William Faulkner delivered the infamous “Banquet Speech” in 1950‚ five years after the great World War II ended. During this time‚ the Cold War had begun. There was the stand off between the United States and the Soviet Union. At this point in time‚ both countries were now superpowers and had to ability to produce atomic bombs. America had ended World War II with the use of atomic bombs in 1945. For the following few year‚ they were the only country to posses this power of the atom. However‚ in

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    MACBETH..Act !‚ Scene 1 and 2. About the Play: In 1606‚ William Shakespeare wrote a play‚ Macbeth‚ which has gone down in history as one of the best tragedies ever written. It is known to be the shortest and bloodiest tragedies of Shakespeare. The simplest way of explaining the plot would be to say that it is a story of a man urged by his wife‚ and foretold by prophesy‚ to commit murder in order to gain power….a plan which fails‚ with tragic consequences. But more specifically‚ it is a classic

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    Act 3‚ Scene 2 1. Comment on the changing relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. In the beginning we see Lady Macbeth playing the more superior‚ more dominating role of the two. She lays all the plans and all Macbeth has to do is obey her commands. She comes across as a woman‚ who is persuasive and manipulative. Macbeth on the other hand is fickle-minded and unsure. We discover that the man‚ who is praised so highly by the King and the general public‚ is actually weak and submissive man

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    Name: The Tragedy of Macbeth Act I Scenes 3-7 Please erase the blanks and fill in the answer with another color text so that I can distinguish your answer. Scene 3 – The Heath The three witches wait on the heath for their predestined meeting with Macbeth. The first witch gives an account of what she has been doing since their last meeting: She met a sailor’s wife who was eating chestnuts. She goes on to describe the incident‚ which would have included elements of an “urban legend” in Shakespeare’s

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    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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    The next two albums they released‚ Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed‚ are hailed by critics and fans alike as some of the best and most iconic works from The Rolling Stones. By this point‚ the lifestyle the band members were leading was getting them into trouble with British society‚ with this conflict coming to a head on February 12‚ 1967. Keith Richards threw an acid party at his estate. In attendance were many big names such as George Harrison and his wife Patty‚ Mick Jagger and his girlfriend

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    Shakespeare make this scene both a significant and dramatic moment in the play? In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth there are a lot of dramatic‚ exciting and tragic occurrences in many of the scenes. Although in the beginning‚ Shakespeare foreshadowed the tragedies that were to come nothing could have prepared the audience for what took place in Act 2 scene 3. This is the scene in which King Duncan is found murdered causing shock and panic in all the characters on stage. He dramatizes the scene by portraying

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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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    To begin‚ one notices that all three scenes demonstrate different language elements‚ but only one version is unsurpassed. That version is directed by Mckellen. Macbeth is portrayed as an insane man while delivering this soliloquy. He talks exceptionally fast and at this pace he sounds nervous‚ shaky and out of breath. With Macbeth begins anxious then changes to being confident. The audience may predict that something fatal is bound to happen. Mckellen’s version reflected the original text‚ kept

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