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    Madness In Hamlet

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    Hamlet is a piece of literature that transcends time. Pieces that have this kind of status survive because of the themes they yield. Revenge‚ death‚ and madness are three overarching subjects that have helped Hamlet stay relevant as time progresses. Revenge is introduced to the reader in the very first act of Hamlet. As Hamlet Jr. is conversing with the ghost of his father‚ the ghost tells Hamlet‚ “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.” For the next four acts‚ the plot revolves around Hamlet

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    ambition

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    Kelab : English Debat Club Bil. Nama Tingkatan 1. MEGAT ASHMAN KEIFLEE BIN MOHMED LATFI 5R 2. MUHAMMAD AIMAN ARSYAD 4S 3. AZHAD ARIF BIN ALIAS 5R 4. ERZAN SHAH MY ARBI BIN KEMAL RIZADI 5R 5. MUHAMMAD ASYRAF BIN ZAIDAN 5R 6. MEGAT ZULFITRI BIN MEGAT ZULKARNAIN 4R 7. MUHD RAIHAN BIN AHMAD NOR KOMAR 5R 8. KHAIRUL DANIAL IMRAN BIN KHAIRUL NIZAM 9. MIRZA AIMAN BIN RIZAL NAIDU 1S 10. IRFAN AFFENDY BIN ADRIAN 3A 11. SHAHRUL IRFAN BIN SHARUL ISRAM 2R 12

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    Lady Macbeth and her changes throughout the play Shakespeare’s playMacbeth” which is considered one of his darkest and most powerful tragedies‚ Lady Macbeth‚ a very important character‚ changed dramatically throughout the play. At first she appeared confident‚ assertive and the dominant partner. She was cold blooded and cruel but then she became nervous‚ scared and suicidal. Soon Macbeth and Lady Macbeths relationship starts to falter. She is the one who influenced and hurried Macbeth to

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    Macbeth Character Changes In the play Macbeth written by William Shakespeare‚ the two main characters‚ Macbeth and Lady Macbeth‚ experience changes in their character and personality throughout the play. After the play begins‚ Lady Macbeth‚ Macbeth’s wife‚ is the first one to suggest the murder of King Duncan‚ the king that three witches prophesized would be replaced by Macbeth. At this point‚ Lady Macbeth is the one of the two who has the greatest desire for success‚ and she is willing to go

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    Montresor's Madness

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    The madness of Poe’s narrators illustrates the potential of the mind to distort reality‚ and causes the reader to question the narrator’s reliability. “The Cask of Amontillado‚” “The Black Cat‚” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” are all told in the first-person point-of-view. The narrators of these stories are unreliable due to their mental instability‚ and therefore the validity of the narratives that they offer must be questioned. Montresor‚ the narrator of “The Cask of Amontillado‚” feels justified in

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    Macbeth: Betrayal and Violence NOTES BETRAYAL 1. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth plot to kill the king Duncan - The weird sisters tell Macbeth that he will be Thane of Cawdor as well as king. He believes them and sends a letter to Lady Macbeth. She then plots a plan to kill Duncan‚ wanting to be Queen over Scotland "O never shall sun that morrow see." = Duncan will never awaken to see the sun again as Lady Macbeth wants him killed. However‚ Macbeth not so sure. REGICIDE. 2. Macbeth killing his friend

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    Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a tragic play. Gradually throughout the play’s sequence‚ Macbeth’s actions become increasingly more wicked and evil. The real focus is how and why Macbeth changed so drastically. The three witches predictions or prophesies had a traumatic effect on him that slowly began his steep downfall. In the beginning of the playMacbeth was the trust-worthy Thane of Glamis. He was respected from high ranking people for his military achievements. "For brave Macbeth - Well deserves

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    William Shakespeare’s playMacbeth’ is set Scotland in the eleventh century. The play is about the protagonist Macbeth’s‚ bloody rise to power‚ through the murder of the Scottish king‚ Duncan. Macbeths ambition is to become king. In the play there are both powerful‚ manipulative and unnatural women portrayed by the likes of Lady Macbeth and the witches and the not so powerful and more traditional portrayal of females such as we see in Lady McDuff. The witches are portrayed as having ultimate

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    The Raven and Madness

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    to enhance his theme of madness. The theme of madness gives the poem an air of mystery and evokes many questions in the reader’s mind. The reader begins to wonder if the speaker is sane‚ or even if the Raven is real. The poem starts out fairly normal until the bird speaks‚ which is definitely out of the ordinary. Up until this moment‚ we have no reason to believe that the speaker is anything but sane. However‚ continuing on from this point of the poem’s first hint of madness‚ the reader says‚ “Then

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    it was a lot of work considering the lines from macbeth for textual support. Would you kill someone if it brought you power‚ and the ability to rule a country? Macbeth‚ one of the king’s generals wanted the power. Macbeth does many things throughout till he ends up in a crazed mess in the end. He goes from a thoughtful person who knew right from wrong‚ to a courageous ruler whose arrogance got the best of him. Throughout the playMacbeth proves himself of a tragic hero. To prove that he

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