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    In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is a characters with a noticeable development for beginning to end. Lady Macbeth is not only Macbeth’s husband, she’s also his voice of reason throughout the play. She has an active speaking role and presence, however after the third act, there is a break in Lady Macbeth’s character. She does not appear again until the fifth act. During this gap, there is an evident change in Lady Macbeth’s character. She becomes insane. Shakespeare leaves no explanation to

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    narrative of Macbeth, but also in the process of Shakespeare’s interpretation of character development. The face of this statement lies in the appearance and denouement within the writer’s antagonistic character, Macbeth. We see an honored warrior hero in the exposition of the play who later is established as a narcissistic psychopath. In Act 1, Scene 3 the quote “The Thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me in borrowed robes?” reflects

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    Macbeth’s Character Change Throughout the play Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, many characters personalities changed. In particular Macbeth’s. Macbeth was humble and kind at the beginning of the play but then somehow towards the end of the play he became a cruel ruler. Lady Macbeth, was the cause of many of these changes, but she is not all to blame. Macbeth became to full of himself and started thinking he was better than everyone. Macbeth went crazy, killing people left and right, including

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    is enough, but for others, all the money in the world cannot purchase eternal happiness. Macbeth was once content with the life that he was living. What more could one want than to be an honourable and a recognizable soldier of the king’s army? Until the witches present to him the life-changing prophecies; the chance to be King of Scotland. Suddenly, life changes for Macbeth. The witches open doors that Macbeth had once never thought about. He begins to consider evil thoughts to fulfil the witches’

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    determined shapes their outlook on life, and how they approach it on a daily basis.William Shakespeare's Macbeth is a classic tragedy, where opportunities reveal themselves to Macbeth, combined with his vaulting ambition, begins his descent into evil. This ambition is driven by the Witches prophecies to him, his manipulative wife, and him ignoring his conscience. If it were not for these deadly mistakes, Macbeth would not have turned into, the bloodthirsty,

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    Macbeth Act IV Scene I In the specific scene, Macbeth faces his past, present, and future. He is visited by three apparitions that were conjured up by the three witches. The scene takes place in a cave, which according to greek mythology represented a confusion between reality and falsehood (novelguide.com). Macbeth throughout the play struggles between what is real and untrue. This inner battle quickly leads to his tragic demise in the end of the play. Beginning with the imaginary dagger floating

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    In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, there are many themes that teach a lesson but guilt is a significant one. Macbeth has many issues due to his internal conflict. Macbeth has many purposely build up the subject of blame and heart in his play. Macbeth has different feelings of guilt that play a role in Macbeth’s fatal decisions. Guilt has overcome the way Macbeth’s actions have changed throughout. Guilt plays a very large role in Macbeth’s burden. The actions that endured Macbeth to blame the activities

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    Macbeth is a complex story of a great and popular king, named Duncan, who is murdered brutally by a horrid, vicious Tyrant called Macbeth, who was considered one of Duncan's closest and most loyal friends. This tyrant brings havoc and devastation to the once almighty land of Scotland. Macbeth is an intricate character and has many different personality changes throughout the play. Shakespeare created Macbeth as a character who would capture

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    Macbeth In this world, there are some people who let what others say affect their decisions and choices. Sometimes that could be a good thing others looking out for you, giving their opinion to better yours; but in this play there were no good intentions about anything. This kind of encouragement to do a certain thing was purely out of selfishness and hate towards someone. Even though Macbeth initially decides not to kill the king, his wife instills in such motives that he changes his mind and finalizes

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    ambition” (1.5). Macbeth is a play by Shakespeare that tells the story about how Macbeth is told that he will acquire the throne. The play revolves around the action of how Macbeth obtains the throne and what happens to him throughout his reign. Throughout Macbeth power is desired but it also comes with grave consequences, in the play when power is gained it also leads to corruption. Firstly, throughout acts one and two Macbeth demonstrates the beginning signs of his corruption. When Macbeth overhears that

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