Ambition In Macbeth

Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s best known plays. There are all sorts of reasons for this but perhaps tha main one is that the basic story still strikes modern audiences. It is a bloodthirsty tale of ambition, and the evils we will go to in order to get what we want.
The play is considered very unlucky – actors were told that they shouldn’t even say the word ‘Macbeth’ if they aren’t on the stage performing it; hence why people talk about ‘the Scottish play’ or ‘The Comedy of Glamis’. One reason for keeping it quiet is that some people thought that Shakespeare didn’t just include witches as characters in the play, but that he actually wrote real magic spells in some of the lines. Beause of this, the play was cursed – legend has it that an

She is obviously a very lonely, sad and angry woman as she quotes how she stayes in bed all day cawing ‘noooo’ at the wall, still sitting in her yellowing wedding dress. The wording used in ‘the dress yellowing’ is a lot harder hitting than just saying ‘the dress getting old an dirty’, shes thought about this. You can revive something that is just yellowing, you can give it a new life, but is that what she wants? This poem traces the emotional history of Havisham – beloved, bastard, spinster, corpse. Line 10-12 ‘Some nights better,the lost body over me, my fluent tongue in its mouth in its ear then down till I suddenly bite awake.’ This is showing us how she is letting herself feel love and maybe even sexual desires in her dreams, but then wakes abruptly. The language used in Havisham is rather aggressive and there is a lot of imagery so you are able to visualise most of the poem in your head, giving it extra impact on the reader. ‘a red balloon bursting in my face’ is this her heart? Has she finally had enough of it all and her heart just

This poem is a frenzy of emotion. Alternate lines rhyme and there is no clear defined structure. The poem describes the gas attack in the trenches and pulsates with a sense of horrow and outrage. Wilfred Owen is against the way the government tells people to fight and why the government promotes such a patriotic view on war. He wrote this poem whilst he was in a psychiatric ward, he was in shell shock; this would have affected him greatly, and could have influenced and worsened the idea of war in the poem. The poem captures the feelings of men in the trenches, alliteration can reflect the twisting agony (S4, L 2 and 3). The poem is written in iambicpentameter and has a natural flow, like a heartbeat; there is no clearly defined structure though. Dulce et Decorum Est also has it’s dobuts and uncertainties as the future of the soldiers is unclear and can be