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Destiny/Fate

Destiny/Fate was well used in the play Macbeth by Shakespeare. for example in act one of the play 3 witch sisiter appear before Macbeth and his friend Banquo and tell them "All hail, Macbeth, the future king!" (Act 1, Scene 3, page 3). A scene later Macbeth kills King Duncan and becomes king just like the witches said he would. Later on in the play the head witch Hecate gets the witch sisiters to trick Macbeth into thinking he is invisable and can not be kill. to do so when Macbeth comes to them for answer the show him several appartitons. the first one tells him "Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff. Beware thane of Fife." (Act 4, scene 1, page 4). the Second apperation revels to Macbeth that "Be violent, bold, and firm. Laugh at the power of other men, because nobody born from a woman will ever harm Macbeth."

(Act 4, scene 1, page 4). towards the end of the play believes he can not die because every man is born from a woman and that Macduff is no threat to him that his mind get blown away when he had no idea Macduff mother had to have a c-section for him do be born. maby he should of head the apparitions warnings better because in the end he was slain by the same person he was warned about.

In that short clip of the movie "Troy" Achilles's mother warned him that if he went to war he would get all the fame and glory he wanted but never come home agian. If he sayed he would be happly married have kids and then grandkids and die of old age. unfortunatly achilles chose to go to war and was killed by the trojan prince named Paris.

In Macbeths case eventhough witches told him is fate and not his mother the outcome was somewhat the same. what the play does not tell the audience is that eventhough Macbeth was told he would become king he did have a choice kill or not kill king Duncan. Macbeth decided to kill the king and take his place which led to his down fall like when Achilles died chasing after fame and glory.

Ambition

Ambition is the one theme that is the moslty used theme in Macbeth from what i can see. for instenes "Brave Macbeth, laughing at Luck, chopped his way through to Macdonwald, who didn’t even have time to say good-bye or shake hands before Macbeth split him open from his navel to his jawbone and stuck his head on our castle walls." (Act 1, Scene 2) in this you can see that Macbeths ambition to kill the enemy is great and also his ambtion to serve his king is also great untill he meets the 3 witches. after that his ambition becomes evil for exmaple "That’s comforting. They can be killed, it’s true. So be cheerful. Before the bat flies through the castle, and before the dung beetle makes his little humming noise to tell us it’s nighttime, a dreadful deed will be done." (Act 3, Scene 2, Page 2) and from that you can see that Macbeths ambition changes from good to bad because now his ambition will lead him to kill his best friend just to stay as king.

Alexander the Great's ambition about taking over the known world at the time knew no bounds. he had so much ambition that he beleived that he could control the whole world and he did. Unfortunatly the last batle he had was at a city where no king could ever take and that battle is also where he died.

Macbeth's Ambition is rather the same as Alexander but not in a good way. before he killed the king and was still loyal when an enemy chalenge King Duncan Macbeth put all his ambition into taking out the treat for the king. When Mabeth became king that change instead of using his ambition agienst his enemys he used it at his friends and allies in the belief htat they knew what he did was was planning to kill him.

Appearance V.S Reality

In "Macbeth" the theme Appearance v.s Reality is presented a few times through out the play for example in act 2 Macbeth said, "Is this a dagger I see in front of me, with its handle pointing toward my hand? (to the dagger) Come, let me hold you. (he grabs at the air in front of him without touching anything) I don’t have you but I can still see you. Fateful apparition" (Act 2, Scene 1, page 2) as you can see Macbeth see's a dagger similer to his own but with blood on it floating in front of him. When he tries to reach for it moves but that is what he is seeing in reality there is nothing there. another example of the theme would be "(to the GHOST) Go! And get out of my sight! Stay in your grave. There’s no marrow in your bones, and your blood is cold. You’re staring at me with eyes that have no power to see." (Act 3, Scene 4, Page 6) form what we can tell Macbeth sees the ghost of Banquo and is telling him to begon and in reality nothing is thier and everyone in the room thinks he going crazy.

Toward the end of the "Tell Tale heart" short story you can see even though the guy killed the old man and barried him in the floor boards. To him he can still hear the heart beat of the old man. and while he was talking to the cops it the noise grew louder even though in reality there was no noise.

In Macbeth there is actuallly a similer moment where Macbeth see's the ghost of Banquo at his dinner party with the other nobles. and during everything Macbeth starts talking to the ghost telling it to go away. but in reality there's no ghost and everyone is starting to think he is crazy.

Conclusion

Shakespeare used these themes very well in Macbeth and was able to show them so that the reader/Audience could easily point them out. even though the theme Apperance v.s Reality is not used much in movied or books (not from what I have Read) like Destiny/Fate or Ambition but for Shakespeare to use this theme was a good change as plays/Storys go.

"Tell Tale Heart" by Edger Allen Poe:

but the noise steadily increased. Oh God! what could I do? I foamed---I Raved---I Swore! I swung the chair upon which i had been sitting, and granted it upon the boards, but the noise arose over all continually it grew---louder---louder---louder!

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Macbeth themes by,

Matthew L. Bush

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