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☆☆☆☆☆Macbeth.
The Three Witches say, "fair is foul and foul is fair" in the play MacBeth by Shakespeare.
TO test macduffs loyalty
Rewriting a sentence from a text in your own words
This is a question that might be found on a test in school. When asked what idea best supports the author's argument, the answer will be one that best shows something that supports the point the author is making.
what is ironic about the ending of act 111
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For an accurate translation, it would be best to use it in a sentence.
He has a tragic flaw that leads to his downfall. That is the answer
Macbeth's desire for power.
They have a flaw that will ultimately lead to their undoing.
A tragedy is a play where things end badly for the main character or characters. We don't feel this to be tragic unless we like the main character or characters in some way and feel sorry for them. Shakespeare's play Timon of Athens is supposed to be a tragedy but yet is one of Shakespeare's least successful plays because the character is so unlikeable we cannot feel sorry for him when disaster overtakes him. Shakespeare also wrote characters to whom bad things happen into his comedies, such as Malvolio in Twelfth Night. What happens to Malvolio is bad but not that bad and we don't feel sorry for him because he has a bad characteristic, a flaw, of being stuck up and arrogant, which makes him hard to like. Timon and Malvolio are not tragic because although bad things happen to them, we rather think they deserve it and don't feel sorry for them. Macbeth, we feel, deserves what he gets (killing children is the ultimate crime), but we still feel sorry for him because at the start, he was a war hero and an honourable man. We know that, left to his own devices, he would never have killed Duncan, and it was that one act which changed him from a likeable hero into a monster. It's an act he regrets almost immediately ("Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!") but which he can never undo.
Macbeth has been crowned king- a glorious position- but he feels empty and worthless because of his actions. -apex
a young men tries to go home to his wife and family after a long war b
the flighty purpose never is o'ertook/ unless the deed go with it
An arrogant businessman loses his money and his freedom when he is sent to jail after his auto company fails to do proper safety inspections
An arrogant businessman loses his money and his freedom when he is sent to jail after his auto company fails to do proper safety inspections
Clever tricks or deceptions
