Essays 31 - 60
me in the day of success, and I have learned by the perfectest report they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burned ...
home and sees his wife. He tells her of the prophesy and she immediately sees that the way for him to get the crown is to kill the...
is "at once his greatest strength and his destructive weakness" (Bloom). Despite this, readers and playgoers dont respond with amb...
easy" (III.iv.159,165-166). And its as he tries to persuade her to rethink her marriage that Polonius, who is eavesdropping behind...
rest of the play. Major images in the play (clothes, light/darkness, sleep) Clothes: There are several instances throughout the ...
or question, is that this is his castle, and it is a fitting backdrop for his awful crime. In addition, the fact that the castle ...
ignore Lady Macbeths continual rants and her role in all of it. Just as the man who is "henpecked" claims that his wife drives him...
we see him. At a military camp of King Duncans, a soldier is brought in who tells of the battle in which he was injured, and in wh...
of the consequences of ones choices" (What is Choice?). This is a very important aspect of choice for if someone chooses poorly, c...
Macbeth was elected King in preference to Duncans own son, who was considered...
term in their prophetic greeting of Macbeth. The first witch hails Macbeth as "Thane of Glamis," the second as "Thane of Cawdor an...
harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined ...
will be the real winner in the scheme. Macbeth talks to himself about his desire to murder. He is tortured by it, thinks...
is perhaps the worst mistake he could have made. He was not a man of murder, or a man who lusted after power. But, his wife was bo...
begins to see things. Macbeth imagines that he sees a bloody dagger floating before him. This serves to show the state of mi...
the person seeking power truly does see how things can be improved if people listen to them. For example, in the simple of situati...
with Macbeth as Malcolm states, "Come, go we to the king; our power is ready;/ Our lack is nothing but our leave; Macbeth/ Is ripe...
that sounds like ritualistic chanting: FIRST WITCH. When shall we three meet again? / In thunder, lightning, or in rain? SECOND ...
of fairness, arguing that because Macbeth suffers the most he is paying for his sins, it does not make sense because Lady Macbeth ...
We can see that he is panicking because he has killed a man and there is blood on him that he cannot wash off. Even though his wif...
the fact that they make predictions. Unlike the psychic hotline, the sisters seem to single him out. It does not appear as if he w...
King Duncan naming his loyal lieutenant Macbeth Thane of Cawdor in recognition for his faithful service. But a fateful meeting wi...
Macbeth says only "We will speak further" (I, v, 71). The next time we see Macbeth he has a long soliloquy in which he enumerates...
soldier, but hes also immediately associated in our minds with the spilling of blood. But blood also means the blood connection b...
depression. She always expresses herself in terms of a mothers physical nurturing, poignantly showing how she believes to have fa...
They have made themselves, and that their fitness now / Does unmake you. I have given suck and know / How tender tis to love the ...
your tongue: look like the innocent flower,/ But be the serpent undert" (Shakespeare I v). This is a very powerful example of how ...
surely not do anything to hurry it along, stating, "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir" (Shaks...
the characters and how they all go about trying to define the night and day while engaged in various activities. In the...
say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate" (Shakespeare ...