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  • Macbeth Unlike Richard
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    Macbeth is the epitome of what the literary world regards a "tragic hero". His admirable qualities are supplanted with greed and hate when he is duped by the three witches. Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches. Yes, it is the first scene from William Shakespeare's Macbeth, a tragic tale of one man's quest for power and his ultimate defeat. The story revolves around our tragic hero, Macbeth, and how an admirable and noble man, so established in society, can fall so greatly. Throughout the p...
  • Tragic Hero
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    Macbeth-Tragic Hero As I finished reading Macbeth by William Shakespeare I realized the true reason that Macbeth is considered a tragic hero. Like all other tragic hero's he had many good things going for him in his life before he messes with self- destructing things and threw it all away. Macbeth had a great marriage, he was Thane of Glam is, the people and the king respected him and he was well liked. He was a generally happy person without much greed or jealousy in his life. This was until ev...
  • Lady Macbeth And Macbeth's Own Ambition
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    Macbeth, in the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, is an example of a tragic hero. A tragedy is drama that has a hero with a flaw that causes his downfall and gives the audience a feeling of catharsis. Macbeth's character degenerates from a noble man toa violent person because of the witches' prophecies, Lady Macbeth, and Macbeth's own ambition. His ambition is the tragic flaw. At the beginning of the play, Macbeth is a noble man who is described as the "brave Macbeth" (I: ii: 18) by the Serge...
  • Macbeth's Situation An Impossible Question
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    The Problem in Macbeth 1. We have already seen that the focus is on Macbeth and his wife, furthermore, we have seen that the crucial problem is the decision and the act, especially in which sense you can consciously and freely choose to do evil, then do it and then be faced with the consequences. The problem is old. Socrates maintained that no one with full insight in what was evil, would of his own freewill do it and that claim had been dominating for almost two millennia. The logical power of ...
  • Macbeth To King Of Scotland
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    Daniel Eve Wednesday 3rd February 1999 English 10 Set 1 B Macbeth What were the relative influences on Macbeth to kill his King There were a number of factors that influenced Macbeth's decision whether to assassinate King Duncan or not. Each of these arguments worked for or against Macbeth's better judgement of the situation. Eventually, a combination of all these factors broke down his conscience through his mental weakness; this led to an unwise decision to kill the King. The consequences of t...
  • Sympathy Towards Macbeth
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    MacBeth Essay We are sympathetic towards MacBeth for various reasons. Reasons like that he never wanted to kill Duncan and the witches predictions were to tempting. Or that his wife almost shamed into doing it to prove to her that he was a man. After hearing those reasons you cannot forget about the pressure he received from Lady MacBeth's degrading insults. If we look at the first reason for sympathy towards MacBeth it shows you that MacBeth was a little interested in what the witches were sayi...
  • Macbeth Vs Othello William Shakespeare
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    Macbeth vs. Othello William Shakespeare is one of the greatest writers of all time; he wrote both novels and plays. Like all Shakespeare heroes, they all possess a tragic flaw that will eventually lead to their downfall. Othello, the main character, is no exception to this and neither was Macbeth. Both plays showed how people are easily influenced by just words... In the story of Othello, Shakespeare dic picts a story of how one man's trust is betrayed and twisted leading towards a tragic ending...
  • Duncan In Your House
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    A Friend's Plea When you have a friend who you know is about to make the biggest mistake of their life you want to stop them right? This is how I feel towards my dear friend Macbeth. Macbeth is in a sticky situation with his wife breathing down his neck to kill his honourable king and with his own conflicting thoughts. To Macbeth you would be making a poor decision by killing Duncan because Duncan has done nothing to you to make him betray him in this sort of way. Macbeth, you should not allow o...

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