Shakespeare's Macbeth Act 4 scene 3.
_______________________________________________________________________ Based on Act 4 Scene 3. (a) What comment does the scene make on leadership? (b) How relevant would this be to a contemporary audience? Refer to very specific examples from the text, and use examples of leadership from our world today. _______________________________________________________________________ (a) Shakespeare's Macbeth relates the story of a noble thane caught as a potential "victim of circumstance" in a relentless struggle with his vaulting ambition. External factors, namely the three witches and Lady Macbeth pose as reasons accounting for the downfall of the great and loyal thane of Cawdor. The longest scene in the play takes the audience's attention away from Macbeth, diverting it to Macduff with Malcolm in England. Act four: scene three opens with an air of heavy dramatic tension that sets the stage. Malcolm entertains Macduff, playing a pivotal game that tests his integrity, in the hope of separating the spies and the traitors from the loyal and sincere. In Malcolm's fear that Macduff may be on Macbeth's side he pretends he is even more depraved than Macbeth, illustrating he should not ascend the throne. Macduff's integrity is obvious in his refusal to accept Malcolm's account of himself - "Fit to govern - No, not fit to live." Malcolm outlines his vices before he paints a
Realisation of a Shakespeare text- the role of the witches in Macbeth 1.1 and 1.3.
Coursework: Realisation of a Shakespeare text- the role of the witches in Macbeth 1.1 and 1.3 William Shakespeare wrote Macbeth during the Tudor period (1500's). The theatre was greatly entertaining and exceedingly popular at this time. James I who reigned then had a tremendous fascination for witches and it was thought Shakespeare supposedly wrote this particular play for him. Witches play a significant role in tragic drama like Macbeth. Although they do not tell him lies they allow him to be captured by evil and deceive himself. Shakespeare used witches in this play because the presence of supernatural in it is exciting and thrilling. Therefore people are interested and enjoy Macbeth. The audience would have expected the witches to be ugly and withered looking, to cast spells and vanish form the stage. Witches at this time were blamed for accidents, misfortunes and disasters of all kinds. Hundreds of thousands of women were executed for this. In scene one the witches are in an open place discussing where they will meet again. They speak of Macbeth, the reader thinks of what he could have to do with these strange creatures. The witches use poetic language and use paradoxes such as, "fair is foul, foul is fair/Hover through this fog and filthy air" The plot develops in scene three. The witches meet again but this time with Macbeth and Banquo as well. The witches tell them
The Character of MacBeth.
The Character of MacBeth Macbeth is presented as a mature man of definitely established character, successful in certain fields of activity and enjoying an enviable reputation. We must not conclude, there, that all his volitions and actions are predictable; Macbeth's character, like any other man's at a given moment, is what is being made out of potentialities plus environment, and no one, not even Macbeth himself, can know all his inordinate self-love whose actions are discovered to be-and no doubt have been for a long time- determined mainly by an inordinate desire for some temporal or mutable good. Macbeth is actuated in his conduct mainly by an inordinate desire for worldly honors; his delight lies primarily in buying golden opinions from all sorts of people. But we must not, therefore, deny him an entirely human complexity of motives. For example, his fighting in Duncan's service is magnificent and courageous, and his evident joy in it is traceable in art to the natural pleasure which accompanies the explosive expenditure of prodigious physical energy and the euphoria which follows. He also rejoices no doubt in the success which crowns his efforts in battle - and so on. He may even conceived of the proper motive which should energize back of his great deed: The service and the loyalty I owe, In doing it, pays itself. But while he destroys the
Macbeth Original writing
MACBETH ORIGINAL WRITING ASSIGNMENT. FRIDAY 13 OCTOBER MACBETH BEFORE DUNCAN'S MURDER I cannot believe it; my own wife is trying to turn me against my king. I do not know why but I feel a little awkward, and a tiny sensation inside of me wanted to go through with my wife's plans to kill King Duncan. I do not want to kill King Duncan, I respect him too much. I should not have sent her that letter about the prophecies from the witches while I was returning from war. From then on, she has been annoying me so much about that letter. I told my wife that King Duncan rewarded me, for my effort in the war against Norway. He me gave the title of Thane of Cawdor, after sentencing the old Thane of Cawdor to death for treason against the king and Scotland. So I cannot just go and kill him. After all, I am sheltering the king in my castle but I am also the host. I am supposed to protect him from danger, yet I am the one who is going to make him feel pain, with daggers three times the length of my own hand. Kings are messengers of god, are they not? If I killed him what would happen to me? What if I cannot enter Heaven when I die? I will be sent to Hell, for an infinite life of torture and pain. My little sensation inside of me is my ambition for power. I want to kill the king and take on his role, but should I? Someone is coming. FRIDAY 13 OCTOBER LADY MACBETH BEFORE DUNCAN'S
The Puppetmasters in repect to Shakespeares Macbeth and Othello the Moor of Venice.
Airica Rushing English 316 Shakespeare April 10, 2003 THE PUPPETMASTERS A puppet master is always in complete control of the puppet. In time, the master soon speaks for the puppet, acts for the puppet, and eventually feels for the puppet. Often in Shakespearian tragedy this analogy is critical to its very plot and theme, and therefore many of Shakespeare's characters are well developed as well as complex. This type of manipulative situation arises in both Shakespeare's Macbeth and Othello the Moor of Venice. Such is the case with Othello's Iago and Lady Macbeth each enter the battlefields of passion as they emotionally claw their way through their sinister ways. There exists in Lady Macbeth a revelation of one of Shakespeare's most fearsome women. Lady Macbeth portrays a domineering, selfish character that uses cruelty as a guise. She forces herself to become cruel in order to convince Macbeth to further his ambition stating to herself "Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here" (I, IV, 40-41). At this point, she wishes that she were not a woman so that she can commit the murder herself. Lady Macbeth continues to charge her husband further in saying "When you durst do it/ then you were a man/ and to be more than what you were, you would be so much more a man" (I, vii, 49-50). Whereby, essentially she irks him by challenging his masculinity.
Do you consider that Malcolm possesses the necessary qualities and skills to be a good monarch?
Kingship (Malcolm) Do you consider that he possesses the necessary qualities and skills to be a good monarch? To be a good king, God must pick you. In Elizabethan times, everyone believed that to be a king, you had to be blessed by the Right of Kings - which comes from God. The Elizabethans followed many orders, this being one of them. The murder of a king is far worse than any other kind of crime as you destroy God's order ad also the structure of society. "Confusion now hath made his master piece. Most sacrilegious murder hath broken ope The Lord's anointed temple." The kings were measured on how great they were, this makes it possible for us to compare Duncan, Macbeth and Malcolm. This is the test, which Malcolm provides in Act 4 Scene 3. This play was written for King James 1 in memory of King Edward. King Edward has powers unlimited and could cure - these qualities were supposed to be inherited by the next kings to come. I believe that Malcolm had these skills (as portrayed in Act 4 Scene 3). He also was witty and sharp to think of a test for Macduff. Duncan was a righteous king - he was picked by God, and whoever he picked next would be righteous too. This was Malcolm, not Macbeth. The public would have agreed with Malcolm taking the throne and not Macbeth as God had picked Duncan, and then he picked Malcolm. Another good point about Duncan and then Malcolm to
Shakespeare seems to suggest that Duncan's acquiescent and innocent nature and Macbeth's extreme violence make ineffective leaders. An ideal leader on the other hand, has a balance between the "king-becoming graces" and necessary violence.
Shakespeare seems to suggest that Duncan's acquiescent and innocent nature and Macbeth's extreme violence make ineffective leaders. An ideal leader on the other hand, has a balance between the "king-becoming graces" and necessary violence. Duncan, the beloved and respected king of Scotland whom Macbeth murders in order to become king is the model of a virtuous and benevolent ruler. His death symbolizes the destruction of the great chain of being (http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/macbeth/canalysis.html). He however is not an effective leader. His over trusting and gullible nature prevents him of seeing what was bound to happen. His tendency to make snap decisions is his hamartia, which leads to his downfall. After he is informed of Macbeth's victory in battle he rewards him with the title, "thane of Cawdor" without realizing that he is an ambitious person who is willing to destroy anything on his path to get what he desires. Macbeth started out as a good leader and seemed to be worthy of the title, "thane of Cawdor." According to the bloody sergeant, he bravely fought against Macdonwald, the rebel and the Norwegians. He was referred to as "valiant cousin" and "worthy gentleman" (1.2 24). During act 2 however, Macbeth looses his values as a good leader and becomes a ruthless murderer, going on a massive killing spree. A true king, according to Malcolm should be able to