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    The Tragedy Of Macbeth

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    The Tragedy of Macbeth The Tragedy of Macbeth includes the characters Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Banquo, Fleance, Duncan, Donalbain, Malcolm, Macduff, Lady MAcduff, 3 witches and Ross. The story begins with three witches plotting to meet with Macbeth a scottish general. Duncan king of Scotland awaits news of the battle against the Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth and Banquo meet the witches in a dark heath who prophesied Macbeth becoming the King of England and Banquo having a line of kings, but would not become

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    imminent threat to Macbeth. Macduff, a noble and strong character turns away and starts walking to England. Meanwhile his wife and son have noticed his disappearance and are dumbfounded by the quick exit. On the other side of town Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are planning a sinister attack on King Duncan. Macduff knew that Lady Macbeth and Macbeth were the ones planning on killing King Duncan and taking over the throne. Macbeth wasn’t the main pursuer of this, more like Lady Macbeth encouraging him to

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    Shakespeare’s, Macbeth, highlights the restoration and establishment of order. This establishment is seen within three key characters within the play: King Duncan, Malcolm, and Macduff. The play opens under the original reign of King Duncan, a great ruler to his people and all of Scotland. Holding the highest position of power, King Duncan holds a strong hand of order amongst all his loyal subjects. This reign of order did not last long into the play before his murder at the hands of Macbeth. Macbeth is the

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    In the play Macbeth, power is shown from the beginning of the play until the end. For one of the characters, that has this demonstration to not let go of that is struggles between keeping and letting go of power is Macbeth himself. Macbeth seeks power over others in ways of showing desperation and anxiety for that power to not be taken away because the way he consumes it is by not only being the king of Scotland, but by killing those who are next in line for the throne, such as the witches prophecy

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    In Macbeth, William Shakespeare writes about a lad whose life starts going downhill after he meets three sister witches on a deserted moor who can predict the future. Macbeth is a thane in Scotland who has supported and fought for King Duncan. The kinds rewards Macbeth with a new title, Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, are disappointed that Macbeth has not been crowned King of Scotland and plan to murder Duncan due to his unsettling decision to crown his own son, Malcolm, king

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    witches and supernatural beings do exist. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Macbeth demonstrates to the audience that he has a lot of ambition and is driven to power. Macbeth is easily threatened and seems gullible shown by his actions of how he gets paranoid and does whatever it takes to keep his power safe. Although Macbeth does many of the actions to get where he was, he could not do it without Lady Macbeths persuasive arguments. Macbeth let Lady Macbeth tell him what to do which led to the downfall of their

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    all of the facts about Macbeth solely based on Shakespeare 's play? Shakespeare took great liberties with the material in Raphael Holinshed’s series called, Holinshed’s Chronicles, altering it to suit his dramatic purposes (McGraw, 306). Most of the information in the play, The Tragedy of Macbeth is based off of Holinshed’s books, therefore, Macbeth is portrayed extremely different in the play than he actually was in reality. Macbeth was born in c. 1005 at Alba, Scotland. His parent’s names’ are

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    crucial decision Macbeth made during his journey and several of his actions will backfire on him. The downfall of Macbeth begins because of his greedy and obsessive ambition to become a king thus changing his life ironically from a bright future to a tragic end. Macbeth’s wife, lady Macbeth, and the three witches becomes a catalyst that play an important role in convincing and manipulating him to kill Duncan the reigning king of Scotland to fulfil his desires to become king. ‘Macbeth’ is a tragic play

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    The real story of Macbeth is hidden between the shadows of the Shakespeare's version of Tragedy of Macbeth. There is large discrepancy between the real version of Macbeth and Shakespeare’s embellished version. William Shakespeare’s Macbeth tells of a tragic story of the life of the King of Scotland and his uprisings and declination of power. However, the real story of Macbeth tells the story of a brilliant Scottish king. It is believed that Shakespeare rearranged the plot of the story to flatter

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    Shakespeare is the author of a play titled The Tragedy of MacBeth which took place in Scotland. In the story, the main character MacBeth was starving for the throne of Scotland. Therefore, this allowed MacBeth to plot, scheme, and commit malevolent actions to make his ambition complete. To begin with, MacBeth is a Scottish Nobleman as well as a very courageous warrior. He was also a very particular character about what his goals were in life. MacBeth was a very status seeking man willing to do anything

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