King Lear - Parrellelism In King Lear
.... into a rage, disowns Cordelia, and divides her share of the kingdom between her two unworthy sisters. Such folly and injustice is encountered by Gloucester in the secondary plot.
\"O villain, villain! His very opinion in the
letter. Abhorred villain, unnatural, detested, brut-
ish villain; worse than brutish! Go, sirrah, seek
him. I\'ll apprehend him. Abominable villain! Where
is he?\" (I.ii.80-84)
Gloucester fooled by his wick bastard son, Edmund, attacks Edgar and leaves Edmund to his evi .....
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King Lear - The Role Of The Fool
.... to help Lear to feel a bit better about what is going on by putting a humorous spin on the words he is saying. The Fool uses poetry and song to get his view across to Lear. In act one, this is visible in numerous ways. For example, in scene four the Fool sings:
Then they for sudden joy did weep,
And I for sorrow sung,
That such a King should play bo-peep
And go the fools among.
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Guy De Maupassants The Necklac
.... apartment, dress in cheap dresses, and fend for herself. Only then did she realize how good her life really had been.
So ten years later she sees her friend, whom she borrowed the necklace from and decides to tell her the truth. It was then that I had to laugh. The necklace was a fake! It serves her right. Had she just sat back and realized that life is what you make of it, not what it makes of you, all this could have been avoided. Mathilde was so caught up in status and vanity that she created .....
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Macbeth
.... more of a great! He doesn’t seem to need to know how? Or why? Or even how do you know? Which suggests that he may already have had these ambitions he doesn’t seem to question the witches as if he already thought it out minuet by minuet and he doesn’t need any more answers.
I also believe that Lady Macbeth shared the same ambitions as her husband because when Macbeth tells her of the witches prophesies she also doesn’t questions whatthe witches say which can suggest she is a witch or that she also has .....
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Macbeth - Authority
.... to be wrenched with an unlineal hand,
No son of mine succeeding (act III, scene 1, lines 60-64).
Macbeth feeling this way convinces a pair of men to kill Banquo and his son Fleance. By having Banquo and Fleance murdered, Macbeth believes that it will prevent Banquo\'s sons from becoming king. Macbeth also hires the murderers to kill Macduff\'s family. This demonstrates Macbeth\'s obsession because it indicates that Macbeth values his power over his friends. His obsession with power ca .....
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Macbeth - Blood
.... Macbeth starts this off when she asks the spirits to \"make thick my blood,\". What she is saying by this, is that she wants to make herself insensitive and remorseless for the deeds which she is about to commit. Lady Macbeth knows that the evidence of blood is a treacherous symbol, and knows it will deflect the guilt from her and Macbeth to the servants when she says \"smear the sleepy grooms with blood.\", and \"If he do bleed, I\'ll gild the faces of the grooms withal, for it must seem their guilt.\"
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Macbeth - Blood As An Image In Macbeth
.... blood pertaining to guilt. MacBeth says this in Act 2, Scene 3, Line 60, \"Will all great Neptune\'s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?\" This is an example of blood representing guilt, because MacBeth wishes he could just wash his guilt away.
Again, blood is referred to again when in Act 2, Scene 3, Lines 123-134 Malcolm and Donaldbain are discussing what to do and Malcolm says in Line 128, \"There\'s daggers in men\'s smiles, the nearer in blood, the nearer bloody.\" Meaning that their closest .....
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Macbeth - Blood Imagery In Macbeth
.... in the air before him. He describes it, "And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, / Which was not so before. There’s no such thing: / It is the bloody business which informs / Thus to mine eyes."
The blood imagery in this passage obviously refers to treason, ambition, and murder. This is a stark contrast to what blood meant earlier in the play. Blood, once seen as a positive value, is now associated with evil. This imagery also shows the beginning of Macbeth’s character transformation from .....
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Macbeth - Blood In Macbeth
.... world Lady Macbeth sees opportunity. The only problem she finds wrong with herself is that she is a woman; she wishes that her weak female body change, \"unsex me her, / and fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full/ of direst cruelty!\" With this change she wants her blood to become thick, thick blood would help Lady Macbeth become strong and let her kill without regret, \"make thick my blood, / stop up th’ access and passage to remorse.\" Macbeth soon finds out what the word blood is to him.
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Macbeth - Character Changes In Macbeth
.... \"My noble partner\". King Duncan cannot reward him enough for all he has done. \"More is thy due than more than all can pay.\" Macbeth is made Thane of Cawdor, but begins to be tempted by his own \"vaulting ambition\" to become king.
Another characteristic of Macbeth is his striving ambition and curious nature, which leads him and his partner Banquo to the witches who give him a prophecy. Banquo realises that there must be a trick hidden in the witches\' prophecies but Macbeth refuses to accept th .....
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Macbeth - Characters In The First Three Acts
.... that might stand in the way. However, she runs out of energy to supress her conscience and commits suicide.
A foundation reputation for Macbeth is fashioned before he comes on to the stage. The Sergeant who has fought on his side harps about Macbeth’s valour in war, "But all’s too weak | For brave Macbeth – well he deserves that name"(Act I, scene II). We then hear from Ross, who consistently speaks of Macbeth’s courage in battle, "The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict | …Poin .....
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Macbeth - Charting His Downfall
.... as ‘a man on whom I built an absolute trust’. This parallels Macbeth, who he trusts, when he betrays him. Duncan pronounces his son as the prince of Cumberland and the heir to the throne. This throws Macbeth’s mind into even more confusion, as this is a ‘step which (he) must o’er-leap. He also, in the soliloquy, knows that his thoughts are evil, and he does not want good to see them.
"Stars, hide your fires, // Let not light see my black and deep desires."
In the third soliloquy Macbeth .....
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Macbeth - Downfall Of A Hero
.... to help her in her quest for the throne.
Lady Macbeth requests that the, \"sprits that tend on mortal thoughts,\" to unsex her, and fill her with the \"direst cruelty…\" (I, v.). The supernatural world will aid her in the hardening of her heart and make it possible for her to carry out her malicious plan. Lady Macbeth wishes to throw out her morality for the sake of gaining a title. With the help of invisible sprits, she wants to make herself able to commit a heinous act of murder to make her dreams .....
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Macbeth - Downfall Of Lady Macbeth
.... of evil thoughts. This is evident by the context in which she states that she would sacrifice the life of her own infant, if it were her wish or order to do so: "…Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn As you have done this…" [I.vii.57-59]. So enraged and overpowered by evil, that her purity and innocence (which is part of a woman) had all but depleted, and consequently she also lost her will to control herself and her sanity (sanity-later on i .....
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Macbeth - Downfall Of Macbeth
.... saying that Banquo\'s children will be kings. Throughout the whole play dark supernatural powers trick and deceive Macbeth. In Act IV the apparitions playing with words convince him to continue to walk along the bloody path by advising him to be \"bloody, bold, and resolute\" and to \"have no fear.\" These predictions give Macbeth confidence to murder more victims, so that he has got absolutely no hope left for retaining any virtues and opportunity of remedy.
After the witches awaken Macbeth\'s desir .....
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