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    How Shakespeare Uses Literary Devices to Achieve the Moral in Macbeth In William Shakespeare’s play‚ “Macbeth”‚ one dominant moral is made clear to the audience‚ do not tempt fate‚ let nature take its course. Some of the ways that Shakespeare achieves this is through the development of conflicts in the plot and also through dialogue‚ vivid imagery and metaphors created by the atmosphere in the play. The characters develop in the early acts to identify the protagonist and antagonists to the audience

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    to gullet)‚ and fixed his head upon our battlements” He was portrayed as a totally respectable‚ gallant‚ selfless hero – which was‚ of course‚ how he started off in the play. After the scene in which the sergeant is talking‚ Macbeth comes across three witches‚ who tell him wonderful and dreamlike prophecies – “All hail Macbeth! That shalt be king thereafter” (Act 1 Scene 3). Because this is an unlikely (although very likeable) idea‚ Macbeth does not fully believe the witches – but still fantasises

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    reality from illusion is essential for sanity and human survival. There are many ways in which illusions cause Macbeth’s downfall throughout the play. At the beginning of the play‚ Macbeth is visited by the three witches‚ illusions that Banquo told him not to trust‚ who tell Macbeth the three prophecies about him becoming Thane of Glamis‚ Thane of Cawdor‚ and King. Macbeth does not believe these

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    its early days‚ areas featured included biology‚ physics‚ economics‚ history and literature and the likes‚ with lecturers from around the world ‚ and its focus has gradually changed. You can’t miss some of the lecture series such as savouring the Three Kingdoms by Yi Zhongtian ‚ the Secrets of Dream of Red Chamber by Liu Xinwu ‚ ho‚one last point what I highly recommend is the series “Looking back at Founding Ceremony” which told the story of progress of China and presented the formation of national

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    over the other Aegaeon islands through military force. Thylos soon discovered the plan of Revan and confronted Revan‚ during the middle of the night. During this confrontation Revan and his guards fought thylos which led to the death of two out of three guards and Revan; the third guard escaped. Thylos then quickly left the

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    A typical women is one who helps her husband and encourages him to do the right thing. In this case‚ Lady Macbeth is very different she is encouraging her husband to do the wrong thing so she can become the queen. The witches plant the seed when they tell him “that shalt be king hereafter‚” and Lady Macbeth than waters it. In this story we see that Lady Macbeth is power hungry‚ and very clever. The witches are similar to Lady Macbeth because they influence her to do such bad deeds to get the crown

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    that it were done" (Act I‚ Scene 7)‚ this discourse is a captivating bit of stage brain science. The structure of the lines exactly echoes the swings from clarity to mental unsettling influence that describe Macbeth all through the play. There are three false cautions: "I see thee still . . . I see thee yet . . . I see thee still!" Between each of these alerts comes a snapshot of reprieve in which Macbeth offers to the universe of the physical faculties: "Craftsmanship thou not . . . sensible to feeling

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    ghost does not talk‚ only scares them. The first time the ghost speaks is to hamlet. In Macbeth‚ there are many more supernatural encounters. There are about four different encounters total. The first is at the very beginning‚ there is a scene with three witches. They’re around a cauldron doing a spell‚ the witches have many scenes‚ including when Macbeth goes back to them and asks of his future‚ and he drinks the broth they boiled in their cauldron. And he goes into a hallucinogenic quarrel. They

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    Everlost‚ by Neal Shusterman is in my opinion a horror. Most of the story took part in everlost a sort of limbo that is halfway between life and death. There are two or maybe three main characters in Everlost depending on how you look at it. They are at least Nick and Allie‚ and maybe Mary. Nick and Allie meet Mary the self proclaimed queen of Everlost‚ and Nick falls in love with Mary and wants to stay. However Allie wants to leave everlost and stars to against warnings from Mary learn the Criminal

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    In the first scenes of Macbeth‚ Shakespeare arouses our interest in Macbeth by contrasting the ideas of good and evil involving his character. In the first scene‚ we are introduced to three witches who foresee what is about to happen ‘when the battle’s lost‚ and won”. To add to their image and idea of magic‚ Shakespeare uses rhyme for their dialogue‚ to create a spell like rhythm and sound. Shakespeare then introduces us to the character Macbeth for the first time‚ when the witches mention his name

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