William Shakespeare's Macbeth

William Shakespeare's Macbeth

In Macbeth, look at the following scenes: Act one, scenes one, two and

three, Act two, scene two, Act four, scene one and Act five, scenes

three, six and seven.

What did Macbeth's character, words and actions show about changes in

his character? Why are these scenes important to the plot and

structure of the play and how the themes are presented?

The play Macbeth is about a man whose rise to power and fall are

influenced by his own ambitions, with help from the supernatural.

In the beginning of the play, Macbeth started off as a brave man,

because he fought well in battles, even the King praised him for his

courage. This is shown when the sergeant was explaining what was going

on the battle. He explained that Macbeth had fought well

"For brave Macbeth, well he deserves that name"

They know that he is brave and loyal. However, in the scene before,

three withes were planning to use him to do evil. They must have known

that there was something else to Macbeth than bravery and loyalty;

there was a strong ambitious side that they could prey off.

Those two sides of Macbeth were shown together, the witches' scene

(scene one) was hinting Macbeth's dark ambitious side and his

vulnerability. Straight after that scene was the scene with King

Duncan saying how brave he was. The audience would get mixed messages

there and wouldn't know what to think about Macbeth.

The audience learn more about Macbeth in scene three because he

actually appears in the scene.

It started with the witches telling each other about how they are

going to kill someone's husband because she didn't give her any food.

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...en showing the audience that if they meddle

with witches they will get killed, because in Elizabethan times

witches were blamed for all the bad things in the world, like famine

and illness.

There was also a moral to the story. I think it was 'Don't have ideas

above your status' or something like that, or 'don't trust the devil

because bad things will happen'.

The play 'Macbeth' is believed to be cursed. They might think this

because if the theme of the play happened in real life, it would be

very bad and shocking. They might want to stop the play from being

performed so they don't give any psychotic nutters any ideas to kill

the king (I know that has nothing to do with the essay question, but I

thought I would add it anyway…sorry)

Shakespeare was a brilliant play writer and I thoroughly enjoyed

Macbeth.