To What Perspective are The Witches responsible for Macbeth's Attitudes and Behaviour

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Greed and Ambition, Until Which Point can we consider them something good?

By Juan Pablo Cáceres Vásquez

Shakespeare’s developed many stories into excellent dramatization for the Elizabethan stage. He knew how to entertain and absorb the audience with dynamic plots and the clever use of imagery, and versatile characters. Macbeth is an action packed, psychological thriller that has not lost impact in nearly four hundred years.

All of Shakespeare’s plays have a stylistic device that makes them unique and specials. The use of alliteration, similes, metaphor, etc., makes each play unique and magnificent.

Foreshadowing is one of the most present and important literary devices in the play, this can be observed when the witches set the tone in act I, scene 1 with a storm and the predictions that Macbeth’s life will become so confused he will find it difficult to differentiate between right and wrong, “Fair is foul, and foul is fare:”. I can also say that the opening of the play with thunder and lighting when the witches entered, sets the mood of the play, the reader and mainly the audience can predict how the rest of the play is going to be. How? You can ask to yourself how is the play is going to be? Comedy? Tragedy?

Another stylistic feature of Shakespeare’s plays is the use of Blank Verse, which resembles the natural rhythm of spoken English. Macbeth is not the exception and with the omission of a few scenes the whole play is written in Blank Verse, but the basis of this essay is going to be one of the themes treated by the author on the play rather than the stylistic devices of the writer’s plays.

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Macbeth, as in every tragedy, describes the life of a good man, who by influence of others and by his own imperfections turns into darkness and ambition, killing other people. Throughout the play, Macbeth in order to get more power and later on to get the crown of Scotland goes loosing his humanity until the point of perpetrate any kind of dishonourable acts just to get what he wants (power). And that desire for power is in which I am going to base my essay.

Greed; in my opinion, is the cornerstone of the entire play, it is resembled in ...

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