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…The Many Meanings of Blood Blood is a very essential fluid in the human body. It has been called the river of life, which clearly emphasizes its importance in nature. In The Tragedy of Macbeth, blood emerges in the text from scene to scene. William…

…Soliloquies in Macbeth Shakespeare Even though people in retributive justice feel satisfaction, the perpetrator can also suffer. William Shakespeare’s powerful Macbeth shows the deterioration of an honourable…

…True Lies Shakespeare's Macbeth is saturated with thought-provoking situations and enigmas. Many of these enigmas are contradictions or overlapping puzzles. Equivocations, or things said alongside their opposites, occur often in the play…

…The Motif of Babies and Children Throughout Shakespeare’s literature similar themes reoccur frequently. One theme which is evident throughout Macbeth is the use of parental and child references. Shakespeare associates children and babies…

…A "ravell'd sleave" is a tangled skein of thread or yarn. Macbeth uses it as a metaphor for the kind of frustration we experience when we have so many problems that we can't see the end to any of them. In such a case, we often say that we want…

…that "that will be ere the set of the sun"(line 5). The witches proceed to discuss where they will meet, and decide that they will meet "upon the " (line 7). The third witch then prophesies that they will meet Macbeth there. They leave with one final chorus: "Fair is foul…

…Out Damned Spot! Shakespeare screams imagery! Shakespeare uses imagery of blood and sleep to create an atmosphere of horror, during the killing of Duncan, which contributes to our sense of Macbeth’s growing insanity. Eventually Lady Macbeth…

…to the to total defeat and death.The plays Hamlet and Macbeth have many of the characteristics of a tragedy.The characters Hamlet and Macbeth are the tragic heros in the plays.Hamlet and Macbeth are well known tragedies and the main character in each play is a tragic…

…Macbeth is a play that has many different reoccurring motifs. Among these motifs are supernatural occurrences, paradoxes, manhood and atmosphere or weather. Although there are many different motifs, clearly the supernatural and weather are dominant…

…that it gives impetus to the already existent inward movements: to the sense of failure in Brutus, to the stifling workings of conscience in Macbeth, to suspicion in Hamlet. That is by no means to say that we are at any point allowed to feel that the supernatural has…