/ Or have we eaten on the insane root/ that takes the reason prisoner? (1.2.84-86)” This shows that he is not sure if he is delusional and seeing things. While Macbeth believes the witches are real and wish to know more about his prophecy. He said to the witches, “Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more. (1.3.71)” Banquo also doubts the intension of the witches, he believes that evil always tells one part of the truth in order to earn one’s trust and lead him to destruction.
The situation taking place during this quote is that Calpurnia was having a dream that Caesar was being murdered. After that happened she did not want him to leave the house, even though it was to get crowned emperor of Rome. Before the quote he told his servant to “Go tell the priests... interpretation of the results.” He wanted to know if the priests wanted him to stay home as well. Calpurnia had gotten him to decide to stay home. When the servant came back he told Caesar that the priests did not want him to to go out.
Outline. The written task is about “How could a text be read and interpreted differently by two different readers based on Act 5 Scene I of the play “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare”. This Scene shows the hallucinations Lady Macbeth has after influencing her husband Macbeth to kill the King, Duncan. This task corresponds to the part 4 of the course, which covers the detailed study of a text. I was interested in studying this because it caught my attention the way Lady Macbeth and her husband were punished for committing treason from Shakespeare point of view, but from a modern point of view we can read the scene differently.
Explore the presentation of the theme of kingship in Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’. In the play ‘Macbeth’ there are many examples of kingship, whether that is a good King or a bad King. There are four different Kings in this play Duncan, Edward the confessor, Macbeth and Malcolm, each of them have their own traits each very different then the next. Duncan is humble and generous, Edward has his own special traits that are individual, Macbeth is a heartless and somewhat of a coldblooded killer, and Malcolm is very similar to his father Duncan. We start of with the first King, Duncan, our first sign of humbleness come in at Act 1 scene 2 “So well thy words become thee as thy wounds; they smack of honour both.
Hamlet’s Madness In the play Hamlet, by Shakespeare, the main character Hamlet, battles with struggles during the play. He goes through changes of his father’s death, his mother’s re-marriage to her dead husband’s brother, seeing a ghost of his father, the girl he loves having a father who makes her believe that she can’t love him, and living through is step-father trying to have him killed. In the play, it is thought that he goes mad due to all the lost love of Ophelia and the pressures that he is presented with throughout. Moreover, during all of this, he is also claimed mad because of the way he acts and talks around the king and general public. However, this is not the only type of type of play or drama in which the main character acts crazy or mad in order to enact revenge upon someone to avenge someone or just to purely gain revenge for some personal purpose.
Macbeth, who was the main character of William Shakespeare play, and Gilgamesh who is the main character in A Verse Narrative Gilgamesh are the two main characters. They can be related in several ways, and one of them can be that both were kings in some point of their stories. The difference between Gilgamesh and Macbeth though was that they lived their stories in a reversed order. The start of Gilgamesh story was that he was known to be a tyrant king that his people were getting sick of but on the other hand Macbeth started as a military official that was considered a hero but as the story progressed evilness in him grew. Macbeth killed the real king to become king and slowly lost his good side to his evilness and sought to kill his closest friends kids in order to withhold power and the kingdom.
Many feel that from all of Machiavelli’s passages Macbeth would best fit into the category “Of those who by their crime come to be prince.” But it is the category “Of new princedoms acquired by the aid of others and by good fortune that helps best describe Macbeth. One of the most controversial topics in Macbeth is whether Macbeth’s actions were based on fate or freewill. This topic is slightly addressed in Machiavelli’s passage. The Duke of Valentino is quite similar to Macbeth they are both willing to do anything for the thrown. In Machiavelli’s passage he writes about people who have become king through “the aid of others/ good fortune” He shows that some people’s need for power is so intense that they would be willing to do just about anything to gain that power, even if it meant killing many people.
April 15, 2013 OTHELLO Extra Credit Response According to Aristotle’s six elements of drama, Othello was the tragic hero whose weakness for having faith in those who he thinks tell the truth (Iago) allows him to be manipulated and blinded his jealousy that Iago created as an illusion. This downfall of his led to the death of Desdemona. Othello’s lack for evidence, such as proof of the handkerchief, allowed tragedy to occur in the play. Seeing the play Othello live rather than reading it from a book allowed me to understand the writing and meaning of Shakespeare. Watching Othello, I already knew the underlined themes and symbolism, etc.
Vincentio and Angelo arise a threat of death upon Claudio on several occasions throughout the play, “So, fare you well; to the hopeful execution do I leave you of your commissions.”. Angelo, also agreeing that if he was to commit the same crime as Claudio, he would expect himself to be put to death, “Let mine own judgement pattern out my death”. It could be argued to be a tragic play as people are grieving about the threat of Claudio’s death, “It greives me for the death of Claudio; But there’s no remedy.”. The threat of death in the play also provides the play with another feature of the tragedy genre, stichomythia, for example, when Vincentio says to Claudio – “Be absolute for death”. Another feature of tragedy play is the presence of a tragic hero.
From the moment the witches planted the idea in Macbeth’s mind, there was nothing stopping him from becoming king. Macbeth was determined and ready to grab what he wanted, even if it was for the wrong reasons, and involving the most heinous of crimes. “If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me without my stir.” Shakespeare used two main writing techniques to depict ambition in this play; the structural feature of dialogue and the language feature of imagery. Since Macbeth was written as a play, what Shakespeare wrote was made up of only dialogue in script form as well as stage directions on the side. He did brilliantly in using the dialogue to portray what characters were feeling and thinking.