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This 15 page paper explores the play Macbeth in detail, with attention to characters, setting, plot, its main idea, allusions and symbolism. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. The Lust for Power: Macbeth Research Compiled for The Paper
Store, Inc. by K. Von Huben 12/2010 Please Introduction Macbeth is one of Shakespeares shortest plays, and possibly his darkest.
It is concerned with power, ambition, and the exercise of pure evil. This paper examines the characters, setting, plot and main idea, and discusses the way Shakespeare uses allusions and
symbolism to advance his story. Discussion According to Aristotle, who wrote about drama thousands of years ago in the Poetics, said there are six basic elements to tragedy: "Every Tragedy
... must have six parts, which parts determine its quality-namely, Plot, Characters, Diction, Thought, Spectacle, Melody" (McManus). Plot is the single most important element of tragedy; it is the story
that must be told. Well start with it, although characterization is almost equally important. In this particular play, its difficult to separate them, since only characters with the psychological makeup
of Macbeth and his Lady would be able to carry out the horrible things they do to advance the plot. There is something of importance here that should be mentioned,
and that is the fact that to audiences of Shakespeares day, the supernatural elements in the play were believed to be quite real. They would have believed in the witches
as witches, not as stage effects or figments of Macbeths imagination. The reality of these supernatural creatures means that Macbeths "decision to deal with the forces of evil belonged to
life and not to fairy tale" (Kermode 1307). So when Macbeth struck a deal with the witches, it was a real pact, a deliberate decision on his part to turn
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