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1 day ago · Summary: In Macbeth, greed plays a crucial role as it drives the main characters, especially Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, to commit heinous acts to gain power.Macbeth's insatiable desire for the ...
4 days ago · Themes: power, ambition, loyalty (to Duncan) Analysis: - Macbeth is presented as as fierce and accomplished warrior and this is the first time we hear of him - audience positioned to feel curious - The rebels were winning the battle, until 'brave Macbeth' began fighting; Shakespeare's use of contrast between the eerie witch scene and ...
4 days ago · Macbeth is so shaken by the murder that he brings the bloody daggers with him, and Lady Macbeth takes them from him, to place them with the sleeping grooms. . . . A knocking at the castle gate frightens Macbeth, and his wife comes to lead him away, so that they can wash the blood from their hands. quotes :
2 days ago · World authority on Shakespeare. Editor of The Complete... Professor of English Language and Literature, 1958–78; Director, Shakespeare Institute, 1961–78, University of Birmingham, England. General Editor, The New Penguin Shakespeare and the Penguin Shakespeare...
1 day ago · In Macbeth, the shortest and most compressed of Shakespeare's tragedies, uncontrollable ambition incites Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, to murder the rightful king and usurp the throne until their own guilt destroys them in turn.
Interpretation: Macbeth realises, in failing to kill Fleance, he has allowed evil and poisonous thoughts to grow against his reign as king. Macbeth also understands that within human nature is the threat of evil corrupting someone's soul. Analysis: Macbeth initially describes Fleance as a "worm", suggesting something that is small and helpless.
5 days ago · Macbeth begins in glory, being lauded and lionized for his valor in battle but, succumbing to the malevolent presence of deceptive satanic power, he loses all sense of goodness and truth, until, forsaking the Gospel and embracing suicidal nihilism, he is willing to lay down the lives of his friends and countrymen on the altar erected to his own ...
