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☆☆☆☆☆In Act 1, Lady Macbeth is the planner, the one who is dragging her reluctant husband into committing one murder. But by Act 4, Macbeth commits murder after murder and Lady Macbeth is the reluctant one, nauseated and consumed with guilt by the bloodshed. The roles actually reverse much earlier in the play, when Macbeth kills the grooms. That was not in Lady Macbeth's plan, and she is horrified by it.
Supernatural elements can help advance the plot of a story by creating conflict.
During Shakespeare's time, people believed that witches and powers really existed, so the supernatural elements of his plays were more frightening for his audiences.
Macbeth's desire for power.
It is Macbeth kills the current king and is rewarded by being named king himself. Just took test.
they give away just enough information about the story's events to keep the audience interested in finding out more.
By playing on audiences fears
she calls macbeth weak
"Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still."
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
killing king duncan (:
art thou afeared / to be the same in thine own act and valour / as thou art in desire?
"I am settled and bend up each corporeal agent to this terrible feat." Act 1 Scene 7
Duncan is such a good and popular king; it would be cruel to kill him and make the country sad.
Clever tricks or deceptions
Apex 1.2.7 Quiz) They fear they will be murdered.
