Question

Can somebody help me with my paper about Macbeth? (attached)

Answer 1

"be" should be he. just a small typo at the moment. i'm reading the rest now

Answer 2

"Lady Macbeth, on the other hand, slowly deteriorates to the point where she is so wracked by guilt that it expresses itself in her unconscious, driving her to sleepwalking."
On the other hand should be moved to the beginning of the sentence.

I think the term you are looking after is called a "foil." You can goggle what a foil is.

"Lady Macbeth deteriorates to the point where she roams the castle at night, clutching a candle for light and obsessively dry-washing her hands in order to rid them of imagined blood: “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!” (V.ii.70). She displays regret at the amount of bloodshed the death of Duncan produced when she questions, “Yet who would have though that the old man/To have had so much blood in him?” (V.ii.70). The doctor present during this scene explains her affliction by claiming that “unnatural deeds/Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds/To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets” (V.ii.71). At night, when Lady Macbeth’s subconscious is in control, she demonstrates her emotional turmoil and ‘discharges her secrets.’ "

The paper needs to explain after these quotes why these quotes relate to the argument. Additionally, did you quote something from the play at the end (discharges her secrets)?

That's all I could see after a quick read through.

Answer 3

Well done! I liked your sentence construction and choice of words very much. Here is what I can contribute:

Power is not a tool, it is itself an object of desire. Macbeth wants to become a king because of his hunger for power. The 'tool' that you are talking about must be something like the darkness in us(i cant think of the perfect word for this right now). Macbeth makes use of the darkness hidden deep inside him, to attain power, and that is his desire.

Well, actually I dont think that Macbeth ignores the predictions of the witches initially. It is Banquo who does that. He still talks to himself about those witches prophecy("Glamis, and Cawdor, The Greatest one is still behind "Act I scene 3). He even writes a letter to his wife, revealing his ambitions to her. His mind is all set to become the king, but realizes that it would be not so easy when his son is named the next king. He takes the king to his home. Only when the time of murder is about to come, he begins to feel the graveness of what he has decided to do. He tells his wife that he wouldnt be able to do it. The prediction of the witches had always been on his mind.

"She does not outwardly demonstrate any regret, only thinking about the benefits of her plan." why should she show regret? Maybe I have got this wrong, but pls say.
I have not read after Act III, so forgive me.

Answer 4

thank you both! Boblankin, what do mean about the foil? which part are you referring to?

Answer 5

Ah, the whole idea about the characters mirroring each other.