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- 1671: Othello - Iago
- ... device by coldness and delay'. Even when flaws start to appear in his plan he still goes on with it. 'The moor may unfold me to him- there stand I in much peril'. This, in effect, undermines his own success- because he does not know when to stop, he cannot see his own destruction coming. Throughout the play the imagery of a spider drawing his net to catch his prey is ...
- 1672: Macbeth - Tragedy Or Satire
- ... Tragedy is not an imitation of men, but of action and life. It is by men's actions that they acquire happiness or sadness. Aristotle stated, in response to Plato, that tragedy produces a healthful effect on the human character through a katharsis, a "proper purgation" of "pity and terror." A successful tragedy, then, exploits and appeals at the start to two basic emotions: fear and pity. Tragedy deals with the ...
- 1673: Macbeth - Tragedy
- ... on Macbeth within this play. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the audience sees a gradual breakdown in the character of Macbeth himself, due to the tragic events that unfold during the play. This has a direct effect on the audience’s views and thoughts of Macbeth, thus creating pity and fear within the audience. Macbeth, being a man and a human being himself, is in-clined to some forms of temptation, to ...
- 1674: Macbeth - Tragedy
- ... way, there is also a Reversal of the Situation in that particular action. Macbeth enters the situation beliving that he will triumph over Macduff, but by Macduff revealing his true birth, he produces the opposite effect. Now Macbeth has to accept that fact that he will yield, and in doing so, dies. Another part of the plot is the Scene of Suffering, which is "a destructive or painful action." In the ...
- 1675: Macbeth - Supernatural Forces Cause The Fall Of Man In Macbe
- ... battle for his soul. Literary critic, Charles Lamb quotes, "When we read the incantations of the Witches in Macbeth, though some of the ingredients of their hellish composition savour of the grotesque, yet is the effect upon us other than the most serious and appalling that can be imagined? Do we not feel spell-bound as Macbeth was?" (Lamb). After the witches reveal the fate of Macbeth becoming king, he begins ...
- 1676: Macbeth - Summary
- ... for giving in to his fears, and letting his imagination get the best of him. "Approach thou like a rugged Russian Bear..." there are quite a few similes in this scene, which have no real effect except to provide a few simple images for the reader. Act IV Scene III Context: This scene's purpose is to give the reader a feeling of how much is being built up against Macbeth ...
- 1677: Macbeth - Power Shifts
- ... torment in question of their evil deeds, which has been carefully condensed by Shakespeare into an instance of figurative power. The inquisition of goodness in contrast to evil has created both a psychological and dramatic effect, which results in the query, is the struggle for power worth the evil? A power shift is now detected, between the act of pondering the evil actions, and the act of physically doing these evils ...
- 1678: Macbeth - Lady Macbeth: Feeble-minded?
- ... of a baby. She would have the "nipple pluck’d from his boneless gums/And dashed the brains out" (I-vii, 57-58) if she had promised to do the deed. Her shocking and persuasive effect on Macbeth convinces him that he is "settled," (I-iii, 79). By hearing a woman who seems to be fearless of his anxieties, he is soothed. But even here, however, we begin to catch a ...
- 1679: Macbeth - Lady Macbeth: A Woman Before Her Time
- ... to the toe, top-full/ Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood,/ Stop up the access and passage to remorse,/ That no compunctious visitings of nature/ Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between/ The effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts,/ And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,/ Wherever in your sightless substances/ You wait on natures’s mischief! Come thick night,/ and pall thee in ...
- 1680: Macbeth - Lady Macbeth- Character Changes Throughout The Pla
- ... smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. (I.VII.54-59). Her shocking and persuasive effect on Macbeth convinces him that he is "settled," (I.III.79). By hearing a woman who seems to be fearless of his anxieties, he is soothed. But even here, however, we begin to catch a ...
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