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…that the state of mind of Lady Macbeth walking in her sleep has been communicated to you by a skilful accumulation of imagined sensory impressions; the words of Macbeth on hearing of his wife's death strike us as if, given the sequence of events, these words were…

…, based on the satiric Nikolay Gogol story, displayed a thorough understanding of what was popular in Western music combined with his "dry" humor. Not surprisingly, Shostakovich's undoubtedly finer second opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (later…

…throughout the history of literature, Shakespeare's Macbeth, Othello, and even Oedipus Rex. Essentially, a tragic hero is an inherently noble character of great standing who suffers from a fatal flaw, be it pride, ambition or lust. The combination of this fatal…

…destruction the ultimate result. Hermann's overweening desire to rise in the world by acquiring money causes him to lose not only his winnings and his patrimony, but finally his mind. Unlike Macbeth, who also sells his soul out of greedy ambition, Hermann…

…in their decisions as Lear chooses to be; their behavior echoes his. In their choices, Cornwall and Regan remind the audience of Macbeth and his wife. Cornwall and Regan present a ruling couple,--perhaps even more ruthless, but just as ambitious as the Macbeths--willing…

…, or at least accounts for, the inadequate roles of women. In this, we see that the heroines are silenced by the marriages at the ends of the plays, that the bravery of Emilia and of Desdemona is helpless to prevent their deaths, that Lady Macbeth evaporates…

…"And you all know that Security is mortals' chiefest enemy." -Hecate in "Macbeth" By William Shakespeare For thousands of years, since the beginning of civilization, societies have striven to secure their homes by any means possible. Even Romulus…

…the authority of a king), and is wise. For example, he manages to keep track of the suspicious Hamlet. The fact that he is a king suspected of murder makes him comparable to Macbeth whose scheming wife and muse accompanies him, whereas Claudius doesn't have anyone…

…in the way that Shakespeare's later characters, such as Macbeth or Hamlet, are. Such critics argue that Richard does not possess a complex human psychology but instead recalls a stock character from early medieval drama. Like the "Vice" character of medieval…

…. In Shakespeare's Macbeth the entire order of all things has a religious flavor to it, so that Macbeth's sinful ambition to change the political order disturbs the very atmosphere itself. By the time of Milton's Paradise Lost, this kind of political conservatism…