This lesson examines motifs in Williams Shakespeare's ''Macbeth''. The motifs are used to emphasize the play's major themes and to depict the...
Unlike Macbeth, who acts without thinking, Hamlet might wait too long, which also has consequences. Death “To be or not to be, that is the question.” Hamlet’s obsession with understanding death is brought on by the tremendous grief he feels after his father dies. In his famous speech...
Doors: Thomas De Quincey, “On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth” De Quincey’s essay concerns the scene in Macbeth in which Macbeth and his wife, having just carried out the murder of Duncan, are startled by a porter knocking loudly at the gate. De Quincey argues that the dramatic ...