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991 wordsAuthority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself" (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin), this quote applies to the play, Macbeth. In the play, Macbeth kills the respected King Duncan so that he can be king. However, during his rule, Macbeth demonstrates that he is incapable of mastering the power and responsibilities of being a king. His drive for power and maintaining his power is the source of his downfall. Macbeth is not meant to have authority beyond Thane of Cawdor. When Macbeth is king, he doe...
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Scene Iii Lines Law Of The Gods
1,294 wordsAntigone, written by Sophocles, is written two dimensionally. The basic plot is about a young woman, Antigone, who is trying to bury her dead brother Creon. Her uncle the king, is preventing her from doing so. On a deeper level, using a familiar story, Sophocles sheds light on physics and nomos: the law of the gods against the law of man. In scene II, Haimon, son of Creon, is trying to reason with his stubborn father. Pleading rhetorically with his father to rethink his stubborn laws and trying ...
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4,924 words^OTHELLO: ACT I Shakespeare's story of jealousy, betrayal, and murder begins on a street in Venice in the middle of the night. Roderigo has just learned that Desdemona, the woman loves, has eloped with Othello, a Moorish general hired to lead the Venetian army against the Turks. Roderigo is angry at Iago, the young Venetian hes been paying to play matchmaker- for him and Desdemona. But Iago has other problems. Hes furious with Othello for having chosen Michael Cassio as his Lieutenant instead of...
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2,624 wordsDelusion can often lead to unhappiness. Comment on how characters you have studied in a text this semester have deluded themselves and other. What was the outcome of this delusion? In William Shakespeare's play text Macbeth, we are shown delusion can often lead to unhappiness. Many of the characters in the play deluded themselves and others along the way. A deluded Macbeth destroys his entire kingdom by deluding others around him as well as himself, and eventually in a moment of tragic realizati...
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1,013 wordsJohn Patrick Zachary English take home test Thursday, November 16, 2000 Hamlet insane? ? ? Debatable Shakespeare s tragic hero, Hamlet, and his sanity can arguably be discussed. Many portions of the play supports his loss of control in his actions, while other parts uphold his ability of dramatic art. The issue can be discussed both ways and altogether provide significant support to either theory. There are indications from Hamlet throughout the play of his mind s well being. Such as his relatio...
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982 wordsComment on Hamlets madness. Do you think it was altogether assumed or can you offer evidence to suggest that Hamlet was not always in complete control of his action? Shakespeare's tragic hero, Hamlet, and his sanity can arguably be discussed. Many portions of the play supports his loss of control in his actions, while other parts uphold his ability of dramatic art. The issue can be discussed both ways and altogether provide significant support to either theory. There are indications from Hamlet ...
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9,104 wordsWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: THE AUTHOR AND HIS TIMES Macbeth was first performed in 1606, three years after James I succeeded Elizabeth I on the English throne. By that time, William Shakespeare was the most popular playwright in England, and his company, which had been called the Chamberlains Men under Queen Elizabeth, was renamed the Kings Men. You can see from the subject and content of Macbeth that Shakespeare was writing to please the new king. At the time James became James I of England, he was a...
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4,211 wordsMacbeth Macbeth? MACBETH Macbeth is a character of powerful contradictions. He is a man who, for the sake of his ambition, is willing to murder his king and his best friend. At the same time, he has a conscience that is so strong that just the thought of his crimes torments him. In fact, even before he commits his crimes the thought of them makes him miserable. Is Macbeth a horrible monster or is he a sensitive man- a victim of witches and his own ambitions? Or is he both? If he is both, how can...
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Iv Scene Iii Act Iv Scene
7,499 wordsWILLIAMSHAKESPEARES MACBETH by Calyx Chaste THE AUTHOR AND HIS TIMES (SMACAUTH) Macbeth was first performed in 1606, three years after James I succeeded Elizabeth I on the English throne. By that time, William Shakespeare was the most popular playwright in England, and his company, which had been called the Chamberlains Men under Queen Elizabeth, was renamed the Kings Men. You can see from the subject and content of Macbeth that Shakespeare was writing to please the new king. At the time James b...
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