Essays on Macbeth

In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the main character and his wife both desire success. They took extreme risks to accomplish what they wanted. While their savage process to get the most power and become King and Queen is successful at first, it rapidly falls into pieces. Macbeth…

In the extract, coming as it does towards the end of the play, Shakespeare portrays the guilt through the despair and lack of purpose in Macbeth’s life seen in his silent response towards his wife, Lady Macbeth’s death. This creates a contrast to the beginning…

Anne Rice exclaims, “The evil of one murder is infinite and my guilt is like my beauty – eternal. I cannot be forgiven for there is no one to forgive me for all I’ve done.” Most people would never consider killing another person for their…

Macbeth Ambition can be defined as striving for some kind of achievement or distinction and requires desire and motivation to achieve it. If you let ambition take you over however, you can become obsessed with it and it can lead to destructive behaviors. This is…

Influence is a great and undermining device against the individuals who are powerless. It can influence one’s choices among great and insidious, covering judgment and jading the inner voice. It assumes the basic job of a ghastly lowlife, an undetectable peril to the hero in…

Shakespeare’s plays are ageless and action-packed, intense tragedies that are considered as relics in the field of Literature and Theatre. Some of them include Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, etc. The greatest challenge faced by the theatre artists and directors is to articulate and execute…

Ideas associated with witchcraft and witches themselves are inherently connected with femininity in a twisted form. Specifically, aspects of motherhood play a massive part in perceptions of the witch, especially the ways in which a mother can become controlling and abnormal (‘abnormal’ being generally perceived…

The 2018 publication of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth authored by The Three Witches Publication Company details the dark consequence of over-ambition. Ambition is something we all have, it is a characteristic embedded into the fabric of human free will. Ambition engenders drive and aspiration for individuals,…

Shakespeare’s plays, Henry V (1599) and Macbeth (1623) have similar, yet different, plots. The play Henry V revolves around a young man (Henry V) who has recently been crowned King of England following his father’s (King Henry the IV) death. The issue is that the…

We all have our own individual preconceived notions of what we believe to be or what makes a good or bad King. William Shakespeare has lived through 33 wars and war is consistent topic in his plays. In times of war, I believe that Shakespeare…