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Dana MacDuff's birth name is DanaJohnMacDuff.
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Malcolm pretends to be a greedy, lustful, and evil man.
Heroes are often mirrors of the culture and time in which they were created, and they reflect the values of that culture and time.
Macbeth's desire for power.
To see if Macduff is truly loyal to
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.
The answer below is completely wrong. Compare the bloody sergeant's speech in Act I Scene 2 with the conversation in Act V Scene 2. In Act I the soldier is all compliments about Macbeth, who he treats as a hero. In Act V, the soldiers have no respect for Macbeth at all.
Both plays included the character Macbeth
Macbeth has been crowned king- a glorious position- but he feels empty and worthless because of his actions. -apex
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Audiences during Shakespeare's time considered witches and curses to be real and much scarier than todays audiences would.
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Lady Macbeth talks Macbeth into killing Duncan ( apex ) just took the quiz
Lacking development or progressive movement
the flighty purpose never is o'ertook/ unless the deed go with it
stop being so indecisive and take immediate action.
he is prepared to die and regrets that he will not grow old gracefully.
She is mentally unhinged due to the guilt she feels for the murders.
(Apex Learning) A musical based on a book about a popular band.
Apex 1.2.7 Quiz) They fear they will be murdered.
