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    the twists and turns the tunnel might have‚ it finally ends abruptly‚ and light‚ that is to say truth and virtue‚ prevails. That is what seems to happen in the plays Macbeth‚ by William Shakespeare‚ and The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller. Abigail Williams is a main character in The Crucible who seems to follow the advice that Lady Macbeth gave his husband regarding how to lie. Abigail actually look[s] like the innocent flower‚ for she is a young girl whom nobody seems to mistrust‚ and everybody refers

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    MACBETH Act 1 Sc. I/The Witches/Character study of Macbeth • Charles lamb while speaking about the witches describes them as ‘…creatures to whom man or woman plotting some dire mischief might resort for occasional consultation. ….From the moment that their eyes first met Macbeth he is spellbound. That meeting sways his destiny. He can never break the fascination. These witches can hurt the body (refer to the Sailors of the “tiger’

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    Lady Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s greatest and most intriguing female characters. She is evil‚ loving and witch-like all at the same time. However‚ during the play we see her in two different ways. At the time when we first meet her‚ she is a brutally violent‚ power wanting witch‚ and later on she turns to a shameful suicidal grieving woman. At the beginning of MacbethLady Macbeth is very vicious. She thinks nothing of killing King Duncan. She has no sense of what is wrong and right‚ and

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    relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth change throughout the play? In this essay I am going to talk about the dramatic and rapid changes of the relationship between husband and wife‚ Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. In the beginning of the play the couple share a loving and strong bond; however this contrast to the end of the play as the relationship which once was a strong is weakened as the couple no longer have importance in each other’s life. At the beginning of the play Macbeth displays his love

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    Lady Macbeth: A Wife in Support of Her Husband One of the main characters in MacbethLady Macbeth‚ has been an object of intense criticism. Although sometimes regarded as cruel and vile‚ evidence exists that Shakespeare did not intend for her to be judged so harshly. By evaluating her character in relation to her actions‚ her overall relationship with Macbeth‚ and her death‚ we can see that Shakespeare quite possibly wanted Lady Macbeth to be judged in association with the actions of Macbeth

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    The invited reading of Shakespeare’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ depicting gender roles By Kaylah Karwan William Shakespeare ‘permeates almost all aspects of our society‚’ and speaks ‘to us through his plays’ by commenting ‘on his life and culture as well as our own’ (Sir George Williams University‚ 2000). This is no different in his acclaimed play Macbeth‚ which tells the story of nobleman Macbeth and his wife‚ Lady Macbeth who plot and murder the king of Scotland in order to obtain the throne‚ exposing “human

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    and Macbeth. In the scene from Richard II‚ Act 3 Scene 2‚ Richard is informed of the deaths of Bushy‚ Green and the Earl of Wiltshire‚ whereupon he begins a monologue discussing death. In the scene from Macbeth‚ Act 5 Scene 5‚ Macbeth is informed by a messenger about the movement of the army from the Birnam Woods‚ which he responds to with anger towards the messenger‚ before having an internal battle about what to do‚ and what to believe. One of the ways the two kings‚ Richard II and Macbeth‚ differ

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    see this in Macbeth in Scene 1 of Act 2. As Macbeth thinks about the three witches prophecy‚ he begins to urge for it to become true. Thinking of the himself becoming king was so strong that it pushed Macbeth to murder King Duncan. In Act 2 Scene 1 it says‚ “...the bell invites me. Hear it not‚ Duncan; for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.” In this scene we can see Macbeth actually acting upon his deepest and darkest urges. It was the promise of power that drove Macbeth to kill King

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    Lady Macbeth is the mastermind in the death of Duncan in the play ‘Macbeth’. She pushed Macbeth into killing Duncan. Lady macbeth is married to the main character Macbeth and when she received a letter from Macbeth informing her of what the witches told him‚ she begins to think of a plan to kill Duncan. Macbeth is a loyal guy and when he heard the witches tell him their vision‚ he was willing to bypass the idea of it and continue being just the Thane of Glamis. However‚ Lady Macbeth pushes and persuades

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    Is Lady Macbeth’s character stronger than Macbeth’s – Discuss Lady Macbeth is an ambitious and ruthless woman who desires power and status. She appears stronger and more callous than Macbeth as she manipulates him to assassinate Duncan. However‚ as the bloodshed continues‚ her guilty conscience becomes more affected than Macbeth’s. Unlike Macbeth‚ who grows insensitive to the murders that he has committed‚ she descends into madness and (apparently) commits suicide as she becomes less capable to

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