how do we know that macbeth is  a villain?
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By reading the book and working it out, but then again maybe he isn't, we may just think that he is because of what we are told about him!
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Dynamic = artistically dramatic? Artistically dramatic in Shakespeare's plays usually means "conflict between two good choices". When one good comes into conflict with another good, this kind of conflict is (artistically) tragic because no matter what the eventual choice is, good will suffer. There can never be one right answer when good conflicts with good. What are the two 'goods' that come into conflict in Juliet? (1) It is good that she falls in love spontaneously with Romeo when she does not know who he is. Spontaneous (or romantic) love is always a great good in art and poetry. (2) This good comes into conflict with her sense of loyalty to her family when she learns Romeo is a Montague, the enemy of her family. Being loyal to her family is good in the play since Shakespeare never tells us what the original quarrel was that caused the feud. Hence, we cannot assume one is wrong and the other is right. \nIf this helps, please use you own words for your paper. Using my words will constitute cheating.
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macbeth or atticus\ntom started atticus with mark\nand he started macbeth all by himself
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LONDON (Reuters) - A 400-year-old painting previously believed to be that of a woman has been found to portray the male patron and friend of William Shakespeare, its owner said on Tuesday. \n\n\n  \nThe picture of the Earl of Southampton, featuring a figure with long, black curly hair, pursed red lips, an earring and a slender right hand, has prompted speculation in British media that Shakespeare was gay. \n\n"He is wearing perfectly fashionable male attire of the day, but the earring and the hair are effeminate and unusual for the 1590s," the painting's owner Alec Cobbe told Reuters. \n\nHe said that his family had assumed for centuries that the picture was of a Lady Norton. \n\nBut after discovering links between his own family and the Southamptons and a striking resemblance between the portrait and other representations of the 3rd Earl of Southampton, Cobbe was convinced that it is Shakespeare's friend and frequent host. \n\nScholars have long argued that Southampton was the handsome young man in his late teens to whom an early sequence of Shakespeare's sonnets was addressed. \n\nThe painting is dated to around 1590, when Shakespeare was writing early sonnets including one to the "master-mistress of my passion." \n\n"It certainly illustrates that sonnet (number 20) very vividly. We are looking at the subject of the sonnet, I'm sure," said Cobbe. \n\nAlastair Laing, the National Trust's adviser on art, first suggested to Cobbe that the picture was of a male. \n\n"I was cataloguing this collection and realized that this was a young man with long hair, which one or two dandies of the time affected in this manner," he told Reuters. \n\nHe is also convinced that the picture is of Southampton, although he argued that the man was not necessarily affecting a female appearance, as a modern observer may assume. \n\n"This is a man but he is not a cross-dresser," Laing said. \n\n"He is not wearing lipstick -- some pigments just stand the passage of time better than others, giving this appearance. It is dangerous to assume anything about this man's character from this portrait." \n\nBritish newspapers have played up the significance of the discovery (news - web sites), with the mass circulation tabloid Sun headlining its story "Shakesqueer." \n\nBut even if the discovery of the portrait is much ado about nothing, it has proved effective publicity for the painting, which is now on show at Cobbe's stately home at Hatchlands Park in southern England.
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The references to Hamlet.  According to A.C. Bradley's theory of Hamlet, Hamlet's heroic characteristic was his powers of observation.  I picked up on the similarites between the movie "V for Vendetta" and Hamlet after V repeatedly says that the female character is "very observant".  \n\nBoth V and the female character were "reborn" in their own way.  V was reborn through the flames of the medical experiment facility.  The female Character was reborn after her UNREAL experience, but became a new person after she came to the conclusion that she should not be afraid. \n\n This is very similar to Hamlet, where Hamlet's fater the former king rose from the dead and from Purgatory.  Purgatory is similar hell, because Hamlet's fater complains of the Horrors that he must experience during the daytime.  Hamlet through out the play is liveing an UNREAL life.  He is constanlty hiding his thoughts and intentions from everyone he knows just as the female character does from the facist society that she lives in.  Hamlet is reborn by realizing that "readyness is all", meaning that the world is waiting for you and you need to live in the moment.\n\nHamlet's father came from a Hell-like place just as V did.  Hamlet avioded conflict at all costs and had the "Heart of a Poet" just as the female character did.\n\nMany countries banned the play Hamlet, because it was about overthrowing a king.  This is similar to what that rediculous NY Times reporter said about the movie.
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Julius Caesar Characters guide studies each character's role and motivation in this play.\n\nJulius Caesar: The victorious leader of Rome, it is the fear that he may become King and revoke the privileges of men like Cassius that leads to his death at the hands of Cassius, Brutus and their fellow conspirators. \n\nThe threat that Caesar was moving away from the ideals of the Roman republic towards an Empire ruled directly by himself is the chief reason so many senators, aristocrats and even Caesar's friend Brutus, conspired to kill him.\n\nIntroduced early in the play as a great (and arguably arrogant) leader who fears nothing, Caesar is warned by Artemidorus, The Soothsayer and wife (Calphurnia) alike not to go to the Senate on the "ides of March" the very day he is assassinated. \n\nCaesar later returns in the play as a ghost which haunts Brutus in Act V. Easily flattered by Decius Brutus (not to be confused with Brutus), Caesar appears to us as a man almost guided not so much by his own will but what he believes are the expectations his people have of "Caesar." This is why he is reluctant to show fear, Caesar, as he frequently refers to himself in the third person, fears nothing and can show no sign of weakness or indeed mortality...\n\nNote: The "ides of March" is the fifteenth of March (See Act II, Scene I, Line 58).\n\nOctavius Caesar: The adopted son of Caesar, Octavius by history, ultimately became ruler of the Roman Empire following his defeat of Mark Antony in Egypt (See Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra). In this play, Octavius with Mark Antony and Lepidus (The Second Triumvirate), destroy the forces of Brutus and Cassius on the Plains of Philippi, which results in the death of both these conspirators (Act V).\n\nMarcus Antonius (Mark Antony): One of the Triumvirs (leaders) who rule Rome following Caesar's assassination. Mark Antony (Marcus Antonius) is famous in this play for his speech, which turns the Romans against Brutus following his group's assassination of Caesar. Famous for the immortal lines "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;" (Act III, Scene II, Line 79), Mark Antony with fellow Triumvirs, Octavius and Lepidus later defeat Brutus and Cassius on the Plains of Philippi in Act V.\n\nM. Aemilius Lepidus: The last of the Triumvirs, this old man holds little real power and is used in Mark Antony's own words as a loyal, trusted man "Meet [fit] to be sent on errands:" (Act IV, Scene I, Line 13). \n\nCicero: A well-known orator (public speaker) and Senator, Cicero is killed by the Triumvirs (Mark Antony, Octavius and Lepidus) following Caesar's assassination.\n\nPublius: A Senator who travels with Caesar to the Senate House the day Caesar is killed, he witnesses Caesar's assassination. Though deeply "confounded" or confused and shaken by the assassination of Caesar (Act III, Scene I, Line 86), he is used by Brutus to tell the citizens of Rome that Caesar aside, no one else will be hurt (Act III, Scene I, Lines 89-91).\n\nPopilius Lena: The Senator who terrifies Cassius by telling Cassius that he hopes his "enterprise [assassination attempt] today may thrive" or be successful just as Caesar goes into the Senate house on the "ides of March" (Act III, Scene I, Line 13).\n\nMarcus Brutus: The most complex character in this play, Brutus is one of the men who assassinate Caesar in the Senate. Brutus is complex, because he does not kill Caesar for greed, envy nor to preserve his social position like so many of the other conspirators against Caesar. This Brutus makes very clear in his speech in Act III, Scene II (Lines 12-76), when he explains his actions as being for the good of Rome. \n\nUnlike the other conspirators, Brutus is in fact a dear friend of Caesar's but kills his beloved friend not for who he is, but what he could become as a King. It is for this reason that when Brutus dies by su
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.elook.org/literature/shakespeare/macbeth/\n\nAn Introduction to Macbeth \n\nThe Symbolic Pattern\n\nhttp://www.eastdonsc.vic.edu.au/home/pgardner/teaching/Macbeth_notes.html\n\nI have found 13 summaries for you to look at, click the link below. I have included a short extract to give you a taste of what the reviews have to offer and they’re FREE..!!!\n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=251\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=Macbeth\n\nhttp://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xMacbeth.html\n\nhttp://www.clicknotes.com/\n\nhttp://www.schoolbytes.com/summary.php?id=422\n\nAn analysis of the play by Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.theatrehistory.com/british/macbeth001.html\n\nProtagonist \n\nMacbeth as the personification of greed and resulting evil. He kills the king to seize the throne for himself and continues to murder to protect himself from discovery. \n\nAntagonist \n\nHis conscience and guilt, which are his undoing (and the forces of good at work) \n\nhttp://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmMacbeth04.asp\n\nMacbeth Literary Analysis\n\nhttp://www.freeessays.cc/db/42/sra201.shtml\n\nEnjoying "Macbeth", by William Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.pathguy.com/macbeth.htm\n\nMacbeth Symbolism, take inspiration from this essay and beware of plagiarism.\n\nhttp://www.freeessays.cc/db/42/sra216.shtml\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Tybalt's death turns the play to a tragedy.\n\nThings are going great for Romeo. He's just married Juliet, the love of his life. Everything is perfect until about an hour or so after his wedding to Juliet, when he kills Tybalt.\n\nPer the Prince's decree in Act I, Scene i, anyone caught engaging in a civil brawl will be put to death. Romeo should be killed. Instead, Prince Escalus exiles him. Here's where everything starts going wrong.\n\nJuliet gets sad and wants to kill herself. Her daddy wants her to marry Count Paris. Everything sucks. So she goes to see Friar Lawrence, who gives her the potion which will make her appear dead.\n\nUnfortunately, Romeo does not receive the Friar's message that Juliet is just faking her death. He thinks she has really died. He goes to her tomb and quaffs the poison. When Juliet wakes up, she finds Romeo dead. Despite Friar Lawrence's protest, she refuses to leave and stabs herself with the dagger.\n\nThe play is a tragedy because it has an unhappy ending and because the heroes (Romeo and Juliet) are brought down by their fatal flaws (their immaturity and impatience).
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a lot of shakespeares plays are examples. they are plays written in the middle ages (medieval times) that have a hidden moral adn your suposed to learn something from them
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Villain, since apparently that magically gets capitalized and is, therefore, a very important noun. Who knew! I sure didn't. Better alert my English class!
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I can't really say because we read it in play form in my English class and I played Tybalt so I kinda feel like I shouldn't dis him.\n\nI don't have the play right in front of me but I think he's arranged for them to get married but this will later become Wednesday after Juliet apologizes to Capulet for being so against him; he thought it was because of Tybalt's death but it was because Romeo was banished for killing Tybalt.\n\nHe describes her as still beautiful even though she may be dead (which she isn't). He says something about the color of roses not being gone from her lips or something like that.\n\nThe agony Romeo and Juliet's death caused their families was tremendous and showed their families that fighting was not the answer to things. The loss of one's only child is not worth the dumb excuse of fighting between families.\n\nShakespeare never gave anyone birthdates in the play since it didn't really matter, but we can estimate that Romeo was about 17 or 18 from accounts of historians who examined the play with great care.
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No one has any idea. Shakespeare's biography is really quite obscure. We know next-to-nothing about his life. We DO know, however, that he wasn't a member of the Italian nobility and didn't die a suicide when he was a teenager.
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in this play,the mob were prbably fickle minded.they cud be easily instigated by anyone at any moment like brutus jusified    killing caesar.they easily believed him & the very next moment they were aroused against brutus by antony.it was the mob who were ultimately responsible 4 the downfall of brutus and cassius and hence is there significance.
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I think what Shakespeare was trying to do, was to give the viewer/reader a sense of the characters in the play. Macduff plays an important part later on the play, so it's important that we see the character closely. The play is not ALL based on Macbeth, in fact it's about Macbeth's rise and fall, which occurs by the influence of other characters in the play such as his wife, Lady Macbeth, the 3 witches including Hecate..even King Duncan influences him into believing he can be king himself (complicated story). Look i can write a whole essay as to why Macduff is important in the play...have you read the whole play? do you know the end? maybe if you read the end then you'd know why introducing Macduff's character is important..so sorry for the long answer =/
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Weapon's of Shakespeare's Macbeth's time would have included swords, spears, adze, ball and chain, gaff, war hammer, whip, bow and arrow, crossbows, mace, clubs and cudgels, flail, lances, pikes, trebuchet, catapults, battering rams, daggers and different kinds of knives.  Body armour was quite important.  \n\nHope this helps.
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MacBeth was only written in English, there is no such thing as an "Elizabethean" version. \n\nYou can't translate English into English!