Changes in Relationships Throughout “Macbeth” by Shakespeare and “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” by Tennessee Williams

Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a play in which the main character, Macbeth, makes horrible choices, including murder, to become and remain a powerful ruler. Three witches tell him his fate: he will become the Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, and the king. Because Macbeth believes in the supernatural, he takes matters into his own hands with becoming king. He personally murders the current king and hires people to murder several others.

"This dead like butcher and his fiend like queen" is this a fair description of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth?

Macbeth

Macbeth is a play about a Scottish general (Macbeth) who receives a prophacy from three witches that states that one day, he wil become the king of Scotland. This makes Macbeth power hungry so he decides to murder the current king of Scotland, Duncan. As people grow more and more suspicious of who killed Duncan, Macbeth is forced to commit more murders in order to protect himself from being exposed. This leads to him becoming filled with paranoia and guilt, which ultimately is his major downfall. Shakespeare wrote this play in 1606 to make people realize that excessive ambition can have terrible consequences. Both the play and the movie incorporate murders into telling the story of Macbeth, but they do so in different ways.

in blood, stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er.”

From the start of the play it seems already as if Macbeth is under the

‘Macbeth’ is a play by William Shakespeare that shows a protagonist going from bad to worse throughout the play. Shakespeare wrote this play, taking in mind current affairs at the time of 1603-1606. This is the time when a Scottish king, James I was given the English crown. This king was obsessed with witches, so Shakespeare brought this theme strongly into the play. It also brings the theme of treachery towards the King. This pleased King James and also pleased him about showing the line of Stuart Kings, James descendants, in Act 4, Scene 1.

The theme of mateship is also explored fluently in the play, which contributes a big stage for each character for fully expended. We see the loyalties that each character

In this quote she is saying that she should give out her weak, does whatever man does and become evil. She thinks that she is manful and strong, but actually she is not, she become sleeplessness and nervous. Therefore Lady Macbeth tricks by the three witches and herself.

In the play, we see many of the aspects of relationships that we have talked about in class, or the lack there of, like the importance of communication in close relationships. We discussed

Lady Macbeth is the wife of the main character, Macbeth in the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare. During

Many of the characters that are in this Shakespearean story fill this play with various forms of love and relationships. Not only do the relationships within this

Lady Macbeth as the Driving Force Behind the Murder of Duncan in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

In this quote she is saying that she should give out her weak, does whatever man does and become evil. She thinks that she is manful and strong, but actually she is not, she become sleeplessness and nervous. Therefore Lady Macbeth tricks by the three witches and herself.

Lady Macbeth, being the only other one in the room who knows at this point what has happened, tries to excuse her husband’s actions. Not only does this scene ad more to the guilty conscience of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, but it sets many of the people of the country into unrest and suspicion over their king(later called “tyrant”)’s actions. At this point in the play, people such as Macduff start to piece together the puzzle and figure out that Macbeth has done all the killing but has attempted to blame it on others.