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☆☆☆☆☆Shakespeare wrote the play Macbeth to be performed for King James I
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.
Macduff. He was born by Caesarian section which apparently doesn't count.
Malcolm pretends to be a greedy, lustful, and evil man.
she is a very cruel and heartless woman
they give away just enough information about the story's events to keep the audience interested in finding out more.
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.
she calls macbeth weak
Macbeth has been crowned king- a glorious position- but he feels empty and worthless because of his actions. -apex
killing king duncan (:
Suspense
"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.
the flighty purpose never is o'ertook/ unless the deed go with it
(Apex Learning) He is sad and regretful about the actions that have led him to battle against his former friends.
Apex 1.2.7 Quiz) They fear they will be murdered.
