To what extent would you go to satisfy your deepest and darkest desires? William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, encapsulates Macbeth’s rise to power and subsequently shows his downfall as a result of inordinate greed and ambition. While the play uses various techniques to centralize the play around ideas of greed/ambition to show how the lust for power can bring ruin, it progressively helps the reader to […]

Macbeth explores the nature of evil by the gradual change in the environment and the people within the play. Various factors of individuals, society and politics and supernatural themes contribute to the nature of evil. Individuals and Supernatural influences cause Macbeth to become king of Scotland and his reign affects social and political factors. Macbeth was a Scottish general and Thane of Glamis, a loyal, […]

A tragedy is often thought of as a sad, pitiful event. The factors used to label an event as tragic are the consequences and the lasting effects. For example, the consequences of one or more deaths can be seen as a tragedy. And tragedies are often remembered long after the event, clearly impacting the future for those involved. Many people interpret events such as a […]

Comparing Jack and Macbeth Jack is an authoritative boy whose leadership attributes was used to manipulate the others rather than provide order. He wants complete control, by using his superiority and savage-Like ways. When the tribe was created, It works out of fear, but It Is this tribe that prevails. When Jack can no longer control his urge for leadership, the tribe Is created, which […]

Macbeth is probably the best known of William Shakespeare’s plays. It is the shortest of his tomes. The story goes like this, Macbeth and his friend win a battle for the King, stumble upon three witches in a cave who tell Macbeth his future. He learns the first prophecy is true before he leaves the company of the witches. He tells his wife the story […]

Macbeth is a tragic story by William Shakespeare. Macbeth has been first performed in 1606. It dramatizes the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. It has been adapted to film, television, novel, opera, and other media. Macbeth by William Shakespeare is a famous story that much English literature student had analyzed for their college […]

Mac-nipulation In William Shakespeare’s play “Macbeth”, manipulation is a very effective device. The main character Macbeth is a puppet controlled by the words coming from the three witches and Lady Macbeth. The four troublemakers provide Macbeth with the motivation and confidence he needs to kill Duncan and perform other dark actions. Macbeth is very ambitious; there’s no doubt about this. However, there is no sign […]

The major theme of ambition continues to be explored by Shakespeare through the presentation of Lady Macbeth’s perspective upon the dangerous quality, in regards to what she believes Macbeth must require to make effective ambitious decisions. My evidence from Act 1 Scene 5 of the play ‘Macbeth’ which strongly suggests this point is: ‘thou wouldst be great; art not without ambition, but without the illness […]

Literary devices employed by Shakespeare in Macbeth’s words in Act 4 Scene 1 of the play Macbeth Symbolism: the apparitions’ appearances each symbolise something, the first, a bloody head in a helmet, symbolises Macbeth and his inevitable death. The second, a bloody child, symbolises Macduff, who had been “untimely ripp’d” (born of a C-section), and the third, a child with a crown and a tree. […]