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- 491: Joseph Conrad Heart Of Darknes
- ... is also contrasted with the blackness of the natives whose lives must be destroyed for its sake. (Gillon-25) Many other authors use the theme of light and dark, especially Shakespeare, whom Conrad admired. In Macbeth, for example, much of the play is filled with the struggle between light and darkness. The darkness symbolizes Macbeth, who asks for darkness to hide his desires in Act I, and then darkness shrouds the night of the murder. The light in the first two acts is King Duncan, but the struggle went in ...
- 492: 11th Century Scotland and Witchcraft
- ... certain amulets. A few common phrases, symbols, and signs that we use today are also used in 11th century Scotland. Often such things are often seen in horror movies or pieces of literature, such as Macbeth. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, you are introduced to three witches, in the first scene of act 1, they are described to be ugly beings with no definite determination of gender. While researching it was stated that these three witches ...
- 493: Shakespeare and His Plays
- ... to their evil offspring rather that their good offspring. Antony and Cleopatra with a different type of love, namely, the middle-aged passion of the Roman general Mark Antony for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. In Macbeth, Shakespeare depicts the tragedy of a basically good man, who led on by others, succumbs to ambition. In getting and retaining the Scottish throne, Macbeth dulls his humanity to the point where he becomes capable of committing any enormity. Three other plays of this period suggest a bitterness lacking in these tragedies because the protagonists do not seem to possess ...
- 494: The Queen Of Spades, Pushkin
- ... the protagonist's destruction the ultimate result. Hermann's overweening desire to rise in the world by acquiring money causes him to lose not only his winnings and his patrimony, but finally his mind. Unlike Macbeth, who also sells his soul out of greedy ambition, Hermann is never able to enjoy his success. (It is interesting to note that Hermann has called the countess "old witch" to her face. In MACBETH, the witches predict not only the protagonist's speedy rise to power but also his guilt, his insomnia, and his catastrophic fall.) Through natural or supernatural means, depending on how one chooses to interpret the ...
- 495: "Perfectly Imperfect: The Shakespeare Story"
- ... at the time. In 1603, James I took over the company, and it was renamed the King's Men. In the first ten years of the 17th century, Shakespeare wrote his greatest works. Included were Macbeth, Hamlet, and King Lear. It was those plays that probably caused the King's Men in the Globe Theater to be ranked first of all of the play groups in London. In 1609, the company ... and Cleopatra As You Like It Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet the Prince of Denmark Henry IV (two parts) Henry V Henry VI (three parts) Henry VIII Julius Caesar King John King Lear Love's Labors Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure Much Ado about Nothing Othello Pericles Richard I Richard II Richard III Romeo and Juliet The Comedy of Errors The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor The Taming of the ...
- 496: William Shakespeare
- ... and misjudgment. Antony and Cleopatra (1606) is concerned with the middle-aged passion of Roman general Mark Antony for Egyptian queen Cleopatra. Their love is glorified by some of Shakespeare's most sensuous poetry. In Macbeth (1606), Shakespeare depicts the tragedy of a man who succumbs to ambition. The two comedies of this period are also dark in mood and are sometimes called problem plays because they do not fit into ... Ends Well (1602) and Measure for Measure (1604) both question accepted patterns of morality without offering solutions. These are Shakespeare’s more common plays as we read Othello and King lear in high school. Also Macbeth is one of the most famous books of all time, along with All’s well that End’s well. The fourth period of Shakespeare's work includes his principal romantic tragicomedies. Toward the end of ...
- 497: Dimitri Shostakovich
- ... opera, The Nose, based on the satiric Nikolay Gogol story, displayed a thorough understanding of what was popular in Western music combined with his "dry" humor. Not surprisingly, Shostakovich's undoubtedly finer second opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (later renamed Katerina Izmaylova), marked a stylistic retreat. However, this new Shostakovich was too avant-garde for Stalin. In 1928, Joseph Stalin inaugurated his First Five-Year Plan, an "iron hand ... was looked down upon. Shostakovich remained in good favor for a time, but it has been said that it was Stalin's personal anger at what he heard when he attended a performance of Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District in 1936 that sparked the official condemnation of the opera and of its creator. The focus of the opera was based around murder, conspiracy, and trickery, all of which were the ...
- 498: Hamlet Criticism
- ... up in his own thoughts that he doesn t have the time or ability to carry out his plans efficiently and effectively. Cooleridge contrasts Shakespeare s use of a tragedy in Hamlet to the play MacBeth. Cooleridge shows that Hamlet proceeds in his schemes with the utmost slowness, while MacBeth has a pace that is crowded and moves with breathless rapididty. These two plays with themes of Greed and Revenge are both rooted in the same systems of belief but are carried out in totally ...
- 499: William Shakespeare's Life
- ... to their evil offspring rather that their good offspring. Antony and Cleopatra with a different type of love, namely, the middle-aged passion of the Roman general Mark Antony for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. In Macbeth, Shakespeare depicts the tragedy of a basically good man, who led on by others, succumbs to ambition. In getting and retaining the Scottish throne, Macbeth dulls his humanity to the point where he becomes capable of committing any enormity. Three other plays of this period suggest a bitterness lacking in these tragedies because the protagonists do not seem to possess ...
- 500: Magic
- ... relating to Shakespeare’s plays did not have numbers of verses so I couldn’t find the concordance was telling me. Luckily the Magic Poems of and Spells had an excerpt from William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, act 4, scene 1, which was related to magic. This poem or excerpt was a sort of recipe or spell used by witches and warlocks. I kind of liked this, because it was kind of ...
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