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    this difference. This drives Elain a couple years from then to paint a whole series that makes fun of Mrs. Smeath to exact some revenge on her for thinking she deserved to be treated in that cruel manner. This series was very popular and helped her gain some credibility in the art

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    INTRODUCTION TO MACBETH William Shakespeare was born to a wealthy family in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon‚ England. He married and had several children but died in 1616 at the age of 52. Shakespeare authored thirty-seven plays and 154 sonnets. The legacy of this body of work is immense. A number of Shakespeare’s plays seem to have transcended even the category of brilliance‚ becoming so influential as to affect profoundly the course of Western literature and culture ever after. Shakespeare’s shortest

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    Using the art of rhetoric‚ Lady Macbeth persuaded Macbeth to kill King Duncan and a few other characters. Anytime Macbeth had a doubt in his mind‚ she would easily manipulate him with her words. The words Lady Macbeth told her husband partly set the tragic events of this play in motion. In scene I act VII of “Macbeth”‚ Lady Macbeth specifically uses Pathos‚ Ethos‚ and Logos in order to get the response that she wants. The scene starts out with Macbeth pondering about whether their plan to murder

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    Shakespeare cleverly creates sorrow for Lady Macbeth and Lady Macduff through various techniques such as order of their scenes‚ their company on stage and most importantly by their circumstances. In the case of Lady Macbeth we know her from the start of the play while in the case of Lady Macduff we are introduced to her with no prior knowledge only in Act 4 scene 2. Moreover with the use of dramatic irony Shakespeare lets the audience know certain events about to happen which naturally influence

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    E MACBETH – William Shakespeare 1 (i) “Shakespeare’s Macbeth invites us to look into the world of a man driven on by ruthless ambition and tortured by regret.” Write a response to this view of the play‚ Macbeth‚ supporting the points you make by reference to the text. Mark ex 60 by reference to the criteria for assessment using the following breakdown of marks. P18 C18 L 18 M 6 60 marks A+ B C D E- 100% 60 – 51 42 33 24 23 – 0 30% 18 – 16 13 10 8 7 – 0 10% 6 – 5 4

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    The statement ’Macbeth was basically a good man led into evil ways’ is one I agree with‚ to a certain extent. His evilness certainly progressed throughout the play‚ but his influences from the witches and Lady Macbeth and degree of goodness at the start is debatable. I shall also discuss the reasons for his destruction‚ which ties in the plays themes - for example ambition‚ order and disorder and guilt and conscience. The play opens with a scene of disorder - lightning and a coven of witches. This

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    Macbeth by William Shakespeare illustrates throughout the course of the novel how the dominance in a relationship can change. Lady Macbeth is an ambitious character who initially portrays the role of a leading spouse over Macbeth but as the play progresses we witness an incredible shift in the orientation of power. The beginning involves an uncertain Macbeth who struggles to come in terms with the prophecy of the three witches. Macbeths indecisive nature proves to be an opportunity for the success

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    Do you have the power to let power go? Most would say yes‚ but how does one truly know unless they are put in a predicament with real life consequences to their decisions. Most people hold a firm grasp to power because they fear of what would happen to them if they were indeed‚ powerless. This notorious human characteristic is fully explored in William Shakespeare’s play‚ Macbeth‚ a story of the destructive consequences a deep ambition for power can lead to. Macbeth’s paranoid sense of ambition‚

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    Macbeth relate to our society by him being told that he was going to become King. So he went and killed anyone that was getting in the way of that goal and basically went mad. And look where that got him? He wound up dying at the end. It could relate to modern day when you think about the lengths we go to get things done. So when you see someone who really wants to pass a test‚ they go sneak into the teacher’s office and steal the answers. Or if you want to go out with someone who’s already taken

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    In the play As You Like It by William Shakespeareshakespeare develops characterization for Rosalind in Act 4‚ Scene 1. He develops characterization by his word choices. Rosalind is the daughter of the banished Duke Senior. She stayed with his uncle‚ Duke Fredrick‚ and was also banished. Rosalind and Celia made an escape with Touchstone to find the Forest of Arden to find Rosalind’s banished father. Rosalind is characterized as curious‚ self-opinionated and forgiving. In this essay you will learn

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