![]() ![]() ![]() Face–Heel Turn: Introduced as a valorous and loyal general to King Duncan, ends as a ruthless Tyrant whose death is celebrated by the people.Lay on, Macduff,Īnd damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!' From that moment on it is a decline from the height of heroism to the lower depths of villainy with the destruction of Macbeth’s very soul.Macbeth: And thou opposed, being of no woman born, They know that his weak point is his over-reaching ambition. ![]() They know that it’s already there, beneath the surface: all they are doing is bringing it to the surface, knowing that he will take the bait. They approach him and tell him things about his immediate future – things that turn out to be true, which makes them believable – and they tell him that he will be king one day. They do not have human characteristics: they are more like machines programmed to create confusion and destruction.Įarly in the play we see the witches talking about the evil things they have just done to human beings and we hear that they are now going to attack this very good man, favourite of the king, and national hero. Macbeth’s most vulnerable point is his ambition. All one can say is that they appear on the stage as the source of evil – the kind of evil that can enter the soul of a good man, attack him at his most vulnerable point and produce the kind of chaos that leads to violence, murder, and war. So it would be pointless to try a character sketch of the witches. At the same time, there is the question as to whether they exist at all or are more like a personification of his ambition to become king, causing him to have the idea that he can if he can bring himself to kill the king. Moreover, although their intervention in Macbeth’s life is the most powerful dramatic device in the play, they do not participate with the human characters in the development of the drama. Their dialogue creates a mesmeric effect on the audience. The human characters speak in Shakespeare’s usual mode of blank verse in iambic pentameter, whereas he gives the witches a strange, eerie incantatory verse in rhyming couplets. Shakespeare distances them from the people in the play by the way they use language. ![]() They appear on the stage as characters and are played by actors, but they are not people. The weird sisters are a wonderful Shakespearean invention. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15. ![]()
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