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Macbeth Engelska 5, Engelska 6, Engelska 7
This study guide will help you analyze William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth. We give you notes on the play, summaries, background information about the Elizabethan era, and in-depth analysis of popular (…)
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Characters in Macbeth Engelska 5, Engelska 6, Engelska 7
In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, we meet numerous characters, but only a handful of them are truly important. The protagonist and tragic hero of the play is Macbeth. When we first meet him, he is a well (…)
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Themes in Macbeth Engelska 5, Engelska 6, Engelska 7
One of the major themes of Macbeth is ambition. In itself, having ambition is often a positive human quality, but Shakespeare’s play tells the story of a man whose lust for power ends up destroying hi (…)
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Act 5, Scene 5: Lady Macbeth dies in Macbeth Engelska 5, Engelska 6, Engelska 7
The setting of Act 5, Scene 5 in Macbeth is one of chaos. Outside Macbeth’s castle, the army led by Malcolm is about to attack, and inside the castle, Macbeth receives the news that Lady Macbeth is de (…)
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Scenes in detail of Macbeth Engelska 5, Engelska 6, Engelska 7
In the following, we give you a detailed analysis of selected scenes of Shakespeare's Macbeth. The scenes have been chosen according to their popularity and general importance to the overall plot of t (…)
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Act 5, Scene 1: Lady Macbeth sleepwalks | Macbeth Engelska 5, Engelska 6, Engelska 7
Act 5, Scene 1 is set at night in the Macbeths’ castle. A doctor and a gentlewoman (a lady-in-waiting to the Queen) observe Lady Macbeth sleepwalking. In this scene, we meet a very different Lady Macb (…)
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Act 4, Scene 1: the second prophecy | Macbeth Engelska 5, Engelska 6, Engelska 7
In Act 4, Scene 1, Macbeth seeks out the three witches to get some answers to what troubles him about their original prophecy, which was delivered in Act 1, Scene 3. However, before Macbeth enters the (…)
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Act 3, Scene 4: the banquet in Macbeth Engelska 5, Engelska 6, Engelska 7
Act 3, Scene 4 of Shakespeare's Macbeth is referred to as “the banquet scene”. Here, the consequences of Macbeth’s murder of King Duncan start to show. Macbeth and his wife throw a banquet - a fea (…)
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Act 1, Scene 4: Malcolm the heir | Macbeth Engelska 5, Engelska 6, Engelska 7
In Act 1, Scene 4 of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, King Duncan comes across as a naive ruler. The former thane of Cawdor has just been executed for treason after joining a rebellion against the King. Duncan (…)
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Act 2, Scene 1: the floating dagger | Macbeth Engelska 5, Engelska 6, Engelska 7
Act 2, Scene 1 is set in Macbeth’s castle where King Duncan is spending the night. Banquo is there, too, with his son, Fleance. He seems nervous, which is indicated by the fact that he gives Fleance h (…)