Important Quotes From Macbeth

Th’st est Rough’st Draft’est In Macbeth, William Shakespeare writes about a Scottish general who rises to power after learning of his prophecy from three witches. Instead of focusing on the rise to power, Shakespeare instead details the insanity and paranoia that plagued the Macbeths due to their ambition. TH Shakespeare uses symbols of witches, blood, and sleep to represent the greed and guilt Macbeth feels throughout the text to convey the message that greed and guilt are a result of unchecked ambition. TS Macbeth’s greed begins to show it’s hideous face once the three witches tempt him with a prophecy of great fortune.

When you think of bravery you often think of a powerful superhero or a person with a courageous and positive impact on the lives of many. Although this may be correct in most cases, bravery is not necessarily 100% all positive. Bravery is doing something that on may be afraid to do. Macbeth’s greatest strength and his greatest weakness are in his bravery.

“They knew very well why he hadn’t: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood” (Golding 31).

Every character in Macbeth has their own unique personalities and traits that differ them from the other characters in the novel. For example, Macduff has several inner and outer traits that represent himself as a character and dictates how he acts and looks. Judging from his actions and what other characters say about him we can infer what he could look like and what he would wear. When Macduff fled to England to try to convince Malcolm to return to Scotland and assist him, he is told that they should just sit around and cry their hearts out but Macduff says, “Let us rather hold fast the mortal sword and, like good men, bestride our downfall’n birthdom.”

Who is the “tougher” character from William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, Macbeth or Lady Macbeth? Toughness is the ability to solve and complete challenges. This includes mindset, planning or making a decision, having the will and strong mind to do something that is not only physical but mental. Lady Macbeth is tougher than Macbeth. Nevertheless, some feel Macbeth is tougher than Lady Macbeth because Macbeth demonstrates toughness as he is physically strong and fit with more experience.

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires”(I, 4, 52-53) This is exactly what the stars did in Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Macbeth wanted Happiness in his life but to get that he used moral sacrifices that led to his demise and no purpose of living. This is demonstrated in the dagger speech and the Tomorrow speech that will be discussed showing his ambition for power and happiness to his demise.

This significant quote is said by Macbeth to Lady Macbeth shortly after the murder of Banquo. Macbeth realizes he has a large amount of blood on his hands from murdering others and compares it to being in a pool of blood. He believes he is so far into this bloody path that it would be troublesome to turn back and rather he continues to kill people (III. iv. 136-138).

In this day and age people define masculinity as a strong person with no fear and having all the power, destroying everyone who comes in the way of gaining power or taking their power away. In Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, the author develops the definition of being masculine as a strong person and also by manipulating others. To start with, in Macbeth, all the characters act masculine, but the strongest character that acts is Lady Macbeth because she is a person that manipulates her husband in many ways. Lady Macbeth embodies the ideals of masculinity because she manipulates her husband to kill the king , she is ambitious, and she thinks that she is a man.

The play Macbeth by William Shakespeare seems to suggest that evil deeds have a way of rebounding back on the people who perpetrate them. In Act 1 Macbeth is described as a brave and noble man as he has won the victory for Scotland, said by King Duncan: ‘‘what he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won’’ (1.2.67). In Macbeth’s soliloquy we got a glimpse of his real personality. His personality differed from what we initially thought of him, and what the other characters in the play knew about him. Suggesting that he had a flaw that could possibly over comes all of his saneness.

Trust can build or destroy relationships between people. Similar to glass, once a relationship is broken by distrust it can never be put perfectly back together. In both Shakespeare's Macbeth and "The Social Network" directed by David Fincher, trust is seen as a negative trait. Many characters put their trust in the protagonists, Macbeth and Mark Zuckerburg, only to be betrayed in return. Both Macbeth and Mark betray their significant other, those of a higher authority and their best friend.

The Gasoline of Bullying To the Flame Of Greed In The “Tragedy of Macbeth” , the play shows how by one persons greed can lead to another persons downfall into a life of a bully to get what they want at any and every cause. By holding on to the need for greed the flame for more brute and bullying force comes into play. The first signs of the beginning for the greed and bullying started in the first Act , Scene 5 , when Lady Macbeth gets a letter from Macbeth himself, describing the prophesying of the witches.

At the beginning of the passage, Macbeth contains confidence because of the words of the witches. Macbeth states, "Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,

To be loyal to the king is to have integrity, to show this in a tragedy such as William Shakespeare’s Scottish play Macbeth, the use of literary devices is mandatory. Shakespeare showcases a variety in character and plot development; he manipulates this ability he possesses to dissolve the character’s integrity within the play. The overall thematic message of the play is ‘Disloyalty to the king means to lose integrity, and to lose integrity is to be destroyed.’ Macbeth shows his integrity in Act one, Scene two. Shakespeare proves Macbeth possesses integrity in Act one, Scene two. Macbeth’s integrity becomes undone in Act two, Scene two, consequently, the complete destruction of his honour is delivered in a killing blow in Act Five, Scene eight.

"The mind I sway by, and the heart I bear, / Shall never sag with doubt, nor shake with fear" (V. iii. 9-10 Shakespeare). This quote by Macbeth is a hypocrisy to the way he lived his life and attained his power. Macbeth was often uncertain of the courses he should take to shape his destiny as well as of the actions he had taken that construct his past. Through regret, corruption, lies, and the never-ending desire to ensure power, Macbeth became insane and blinded to reality by greed and fear. However, Macbeth did not start out a ruthlessly evil and morally corrupted man. It should be noted that decisions corrupted Macbeth and transcended him from an honorable and well-respected man to a feared and hated tyrant; not fate. One might argue that

1. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair," is stated in line 10 by the witches in the opening of the play. The significance of this paradox is that it sets us up for the doubleness of the play. It means what is fair to the witches is foul to man.