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    Who can be wise‚ loyal‚ dishonorable‚ furious and amazed at the same time? Macbeth is an infamous drama written by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare portrayed the story of a once loyal nobleman‚ who betrays the kingdom of Scotland. He becomes consumed by power and descends down a road of destruction. Honor vs. Disloyalty is a general theme depicted throughout the play. Shakespeare enhanced the theme of Honor vs. Disloyalty‚ by describing situations involving insinuations of desires‚ morally based

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    How Is Macbeth A Hero

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    The play Macbeth‚ by William Shakespeare‚ tells the story of an honored general and thane of the King of Scotland. At the beginning even though Macbeth is well honored‚ after being told by three witches that he is to become king‚ he becomes obsessed with gaining more power and becoming king anyway he can. Macbeth’s decision to kill Duncan and Banquo‚ and to also kill the whole Macduff family‚ shows that Macbeth was addicted to power and would do anything to gain power no matter who he killed to get

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    The Bully In Macbeth

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    future had instored for him he was gonna be king. Also they told him he is untouchable by saying that no man born of a woman can harm him. And that gave him great confidence. HA but the bully did not know that Macduff the good guy was coming back to scotland to ruin him. But the other murder bullys know that they have left incomplete work. And was scared to tell there leader MB so he assembled his men to fight malcom. He was showing power over the people they were so

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    Macbeth Act 1 Summary

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    way. Macbeth talks about it with his wife. 3‚5 A deserted place Threee witches‚ Hecate The threw itches meet Hecate (queen of witches)‚ She tells them to meet with macbeth the text day and do put on a more dramatic ahow fo him. 3‚6 Somewhere in Scotland Lennox‚ another Lord Lennox and an unamed Lord discuss the state of affairs; Malcolm is in England‚ Amcduff ahs gone to join him; and the English king is raising an army to fight against

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    Symbolism In Macbeth

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    Symbolisms in Macbeth the Movie The Tragedy of Macbeth was written in 1606 AD by William Shakespeare. Roman Polanski directed this movie; and it was released on October 13th‚ 1971. The rating for this movie on IMDb is 7.5 out of 10. According to Steve Biodrowski‚ the 1971 film version which was taken from Shakespeare’s text downplays the violence. The director takes a unique path in his movie‚ and the result is one of the best Shakespearian adaptations. In the movie‚ symbolism plays an important

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    Lady Macbeth Insane

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    us several perfect examples of just such characters. However‚ one of these characters seems a touch more unstable‚ considerably more insane‚ than any other figure conceived by the playwright. The woman in question is Lady Macbeth‚ fallen queen of Scotland; of all the tragic characters portrayed in Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ Lady Macbeth is perhaps the single most tormented and increasingly unstable. Lady Macbeth fulfills her role among the nobility and is well respected like Macbeth. King Duncan calls

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    Hidden consequences Page 1 In the play Macbeth‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ Macbeth’s decisions are heavily influenced by Lady Macbeth and the witches. Lady Macbeth encourages Macbeth to kill Duncan‚ and the witches predict Macbeth’s future life by showing him. Therefore the decisions that the other characters make are crucial because they really shape out the life of Macbeth during and after he obtains the throne. The advice he takes will eventually

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    place throughout the play. The majority of the murders are considered dishonorable violent murders. The reason as to why so many murders take place is all because Macbeth wants to become a king of many powers. The murder of King Duncan (King of Scotland) is dishonorable‚ because the witches in the beginning of the story mentioned Duncan would one day take place on the thrown. Macbeth of course did not want anything to take his power away from him. So Macbeth had to murder Duncan when the time was

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    for his own downfall. Throughout the play‚ the witches have played a very significant role of influencing Macbeth to think and act evilly. Initially‚ Macbeth was a good man‚ a good soldier who is fiercely loyal to King Duncan and to his country‚ Scotland.

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    like regret‚ anger‚ envy‚ and frustration he still went through with his plan because the throne was what he wanted and he was already too far in to give up now. Later after Macbeth killed Banquo‚ Banquo’s son fled Scotland giving Macbeth the power to finally be named King of Scotland. While being in power nothing ran as smoothly as he planned because all he could think of is what he had done and what he had to do to keep being able to be king. It wasn’t over yet. Not only now did he have to worry

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