Book Analysis

Macbeth is probably the best known of William Shakespeare’s plays. It is the shortest of his tomes. The story goes like this, Macbeth and his friend win a battle for the King, stumble upon three witches in a cave who tell Macbeth his future. He …

Shakespeare and other people during that time believed in the supernatural and were very weary about it. They wrote books on witches, demons, and eventually held trials for witches. Shakespeare incorporated their beliefs into Macbeth. In Macbeth, the supernatural is a force guiding Macbeth’s actions …

Further into this, Shakespeare continues to explore the theme of ambition in Macbeth by further presenting Macbeth’s eagerness and uncontrollable desire for the third prophecy of him becoming king. A line to prove this from Act 1 Scene 3 from Shakespeare’s play ‘Macbeth’ is: ‘(aside) …

To what extent would you go to satisfy your deepest and darkest desires? William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, encapsulates Macbeth’s rise to power and subsequently shows his downfall as a result of inordinate greed and ambition. While the play uses various techniques to centralize the play …

Equivocation is the practice of deliberately deceiving a listener without explicitly lying, either by using ambiguously misleading language or by withholding crucial information. What is the significance of equivocation in Macbeth? Macbeth is a play about subterfuge and trickery. Macbeth, his wife, and the three …

“Partners in crime” is what comes to mind when you think about Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s relationship. In the beginning of the story, the two look out for each other. However, what begins as a very sturdy coalition ends in complete disorder. In the beginning, …

Macbeth is a tragic story by William Shakespeare. Macbeth has been first performed in 1606. It dramatizes the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. It has been adapted to film, television, novel, opera, and …

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, is a play about two young star crossed lovers, whose love was destined for doom from the beginning due to the hatred between the two families, Montagues and Capulets. The themes of love and hate are very important in …

William Shakespeare once said, “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves” and that “essentially every single decision one makes , no matter how minuscule, will always have an impact in one’s life. Fate isn’t real; Fate is a term …

The renowned love story of Romeo and Juliet, originally composed by William Shakespeare in 1597, has been transformed into a modern-day story to shed a contemporary perspective on the universal themes of love and hatred, two prominent themes that are seen in the original play. …