Analysis Of Macbeth

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Emily Kloth Block 6 Tuesday January 14, 2014 Winter Packet `Act 1- The three weird witches meet and they are planning on when they are going to meet again to talk to Macbeth. In the next scene King Duncan talks to the injured captain about the battle against the invaders, who are under the command of Macdonwald. The captain tell King Duncan how he saved Malcolm and Macbeth was very violent and fought with great force. Then the Captain is taken away by the servants then Ross enters and he tells Duncan that Cawdor has been beaten and the Norway army retreated. Then King Duncan comes to the decision to kill Cawdor and then Macbeth will "become Cawdor". Then Duncan sends out Ross to go tell Macbeth about what had happened at this time. In scene three the witches approach Banquo and Macbeth when they were on their way to Forres. The witches inform Macbeth and Banquo about what had happened in the kings court and they tell him he is the Thane of Cawdor and Glamis and that Macbeth will eventually become king. Then Banquo is told riddles that his children will be royal and he will not. After the witches disappear then Ross and Angus come up to them and Ross informs Macbeth the news which he just heard. Then Macbeth contemplates whether he will have to spill blood to become king, then when he is done they all continue to Forres. Then Duncan finds out that Cawdor dies because his son killed him. Then Ross, Angus, Banquo and Macbeth arrive. Then Malcolm becomes the heir to Duncans throne and Macbeth has Duncan dine at his castle that night so he rides to tell his wife. When Macbeth gets home he tells his wife the news and she starts to plot the murder of Duncan and Macbeth fallows. Then Duncan and the Scottish lords arrive and they are tak... ... middle of paper ... ...ows about the witches visions and is willing to go down with a fight. Then the war starts. He goes into the war thinking he's invincible and Macduff looks for him trying to avenge his families death. Then Siward and Malcolm take over Macbeth's castle and Siward's son is dead. Then Macduff comes into the room with only the head of the dead Macbeth. Then he says that Duncan's son Malcolm is now the king of Scotland. Then he is then crowned in Scone as the new reigning King of Scotland. Lady Macbeth is a very 'crazy' character. She is blood thirsty and she will do anything she possibly can to gain power even if it means forever being cursed. Lady Macbeth is the farmer who planted the seed in Macbeth's head to become murderous and after that you couldn't stop him. She enters around the fifth scene of act 1 and her first impression is to kill her husband's best friend.

Use Of Metaphors In Macbeth
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Macbeth is the story of how an ordinary war hero becomes king and later goes chaotic with power. The story starts off in Scotland when Macbeth and Banquo meet some witches who predict their futures, telling Macbeth that he will be Thane of Cawdor, and the king of Scotland. Ross; one of the king’s lords, delivers the news that Macbeth has become the new Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth now believes that he will become king. To achieve this, Macbeth invites King Duncan over for a dinner.
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Macbeth Literary Analysis
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Macbeth rejects conformation to traditional gender roles in its portrayal of Lady Macbeth’s relationship with her husband, her morals and their effect on her actions, and her hunger for power. Her regard for Macbeth is one of low respect and beratement, an uncommon and most likely socially unacceptable attitude for a wife to have towards her spouse at the time. She often ignores morality and acts for the benefit of her husband, and subsequently herself. She is also very power-hungry and lets nothing stand in the way of her success. Lady Macbeth was a character which challenged expectations of women and feminism when it was written in the seventeenth century.
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Lady Macbeth's Deception
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The play Macbeth by William Shakespeare starts off with a noble warrior Named Macbeth that is titled thane of Glamis by his own uncle, King Duncan. Macbeth is awarded thane of Cawdor due to the switching sides of the original title holder who is hanged for treason. Macbeth who is deceived by his wife kills the king in a plot for power and they put the blame on the guards by laying bloody daggers next to them. Macbeth begins to lose himself as the play goes on. He kills his best friend Banquo and Macduff’s wife and kids. Lady Macbeth kills herself as she goes crazy from all the killings and then that is when Macbeth completely loses himself. Macbeth is told by the witches that he cannot be killed by any one of women born. Macduff and Malcolm, heir to the throne who fled Scotland think of a plan to kill Macbeth. Macbeth faces Macduff and Malcolm’s army alone as he is labeled a tyrant and is abandoned by everyone. He faces the army fearlessly as he cannot killed by any one of woman born but fails to realize that Macduff was born of C-section leading to his downfall and Macbeth is Beheaded. Malcolm becomes the new king. Lady Macbeth's deception had a dramatic effect on the play leading to a dramatic change in many lives. The three main points that will be discussed are how Lady Macbeth becomes deceived; how Lady Macbeth deceives others and the results from Lady Macbeth deceiving others. Lady Macbeth, was simply minded and became easily deceived.
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After the death of King Duncan, Macbeth starts to hallucinate and go crazy. This event is all explained in his speech about the dagger that he used to kill King Duncan with, which is supposedly right in front of him but it is actually just all in his head, “Is this a dagger which i see before me...that summons thee to Heaven or to Hell.” (Act 2, scene 1, Lines 32-64) Macbeth starts to gain control at this point but everyone starts to figure out that Macbeth has killed the King and many others to mask what he has done. The most important scene of the play comes toward the end of the play when Macduff decapitates Macbeth and then he proceeds to Malcolm to discuss how much of a monster Macbeth has become. Finally they are all free from his tyranny, this scene confirms that everyone knew how much of a wrongdoer he had
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Lady Macbeth, one of the main characters in the play Macbeth, is an example of a character that throughout the course of the play has had a change of heart of some sorts. Lady Macbeth's conscience, which seems to have never appeared or mattered to her before, suddenly becomes an uncontrollable part of her psychological state of being. Murder, which she deemed as such a small inconsequential act, later causes her to lose sleep and finally to take her own life. In the beginning of the play, when Lady Macbeth is first introduced she is already plotting Duncan's murder. She even wishes that she were not a woman so that she could do it herself saying in Act I, Scene 5, "Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here."
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Free Essays - The Manipulative Lady Macbeth
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Lady Macbeth was a small but very important part of the play Macbeth. She is always on the side of Macbeth telling him what she thinks he should do. When Macbeth was off at war, and told lady Macbeth that the witches greeted him as Thane of Cawdor, and King of Scotland before he received those titles, she was probably scheming no how to fulfill those before he returned home. Once home, they had King Duncan stay at Dunsinane. Lady Macbeth then b-tches at her husband and ridicules his masculinity in order to make him commit murder (Friedlander). Macbeth reluctantly murders Duncan, even though he wanted to wait and have it all play out without killing anyone. When he went to the well to wash off his hands he speaks of his remorse, and lady Macbeth finds out that he did not implicate the guards, so she tells him to go do it. But he wont, so she insults him more, and goes to do it herself.
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Macbeth Analytical Essay
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Known as one of the darkest and most powerful of tragedies written by William Shakespeare, Macbeth is a story about a brave Scottish general who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches and carries out his ambitious plans to become king. While William Shakespeare wrote Macbeth, he was focused on the supernatural to not only interest the reader but to also highlight the concept of the play. The Elizabethan Era, the time in which Shakespeare was born, was a time in which people almost universally believed in the presence and power of the unseen. Not only the common people, but also the king shared in this belief because it was an age in which witches were known to be at work. According to yourdictionary, supernatural is something that is extraordinary
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What Is The Effect Of Act 2 Of Macbeth
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Act 2 starts in Macbeth's castle with Macbeth, Fleance, and Banquo talking. When they are done talking and Macbeth is alone he sees an imaginary dagger. In scene 2 of Act 2, after Macbeth finishes killing King Duncan he brings the daggers back with him to the meeting place between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth. He and Lady Macbeth talk and he admits that he is scared of looking at the murder scene so Lady Macbeth goes and puts the daggers back at the scene. Then they hear knocking. In scene three at the door a porter let’s in the people knocking, but he is drunk and goes on a rant before he answers the door. After that they discover the murder of King Duncan. When they start talking about the murder and the dead servants, Macbeth admits to killing the servants. A little after that, the princes Donalbain and Malcolm flee the scene out of fear of dying themselves. In scene four Macbeth is declared King and the princes get the suspicion of everyone else who think that the princes killed their father.
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Maggin analyses the relationship between Macbeth and his wife how they differ from each other and their involvement in the most treacherous moment of the play Duncan’s murder, questioning who is the mind behind it. If it was Macbeth or Lady Macbeth. In the excerpt he defends the character Lady Macbeth stating that all she has done was for devotion to her husband and because of her guiding passion, and also that she only gets involved in Duncan’s murder because of her worries for Macbeth. Lady Macbeth does not have the same petulance that Macbeth has and her mistake was her participation in taking care of Macbeth’s hopes and aspirations. Macbeth is the centre, the moving spirit. Since the beginning he showed to be a man delighting in blood even before treachery has assumed his mind. When the witches said he was going to become king, they did not say anything about the methods, he instantly applies them:
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Analysis Of Macbeth

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