Writers Essays

It is clear at the beginning of the play that Macbeth starts out as a good man. He is brave and well loved and trusted by the King, who calls him “worthy gentleman, valiant cousin!” (2, 2, 24) He is also a good husband, the first thing he does when …

This scene is vitally important for the setting for the rest of the play; the characters really show themselves to the audience. I wrote this scene to show many different feelings such as fear and boldness in the characters. This can be hard to portray. This scene is probably one …

Although the play is named ‘Macbeth’, Lady Macbeth seems to have the most major role and is probably the most well known character, not just in this piece of Shakespeare’s writing, but in all of his plays. In this essay, the way in which Shakespeare shapes the perception of Lady …

Sonnets are fourteen-line poems. They originated in 15th century Italy and first became popular in England in the 16th century. Many English poets, including Milton, Keats, Wordsworth, Hopkins and Wilfred Owen, have used the form since the early Elizabethan period. Sonnets are so popular purely because the briefness of them …

Sylvia Plath wrote the bell jar shortly written after her suicide; Esther Greenwood takes her burden of being the representative of Plath in an unreliable narrator’s point of view autobiography. Ted Hughes, the British poet who was known as much for his doomed marriage to the American poet Sylvia Plath …

Sylvia Plath was one of the leading poets of her time. She was born in Boston and later moved to England where she met and married a leading English poet Ted Hughes. Both her and Hughes were unhappy in their relationship. This lead Plath to become suicidal and paranoid, which …

Macbeth is a play densely packed with imagery. Images of blood, sleep, disease, darkness, animals and clothing abound. Explore the use of this imagery and comment on its relevance to the themes of the play and the dramatic presentation of characters and settings. Imagery in Macbeth can be categorised into …

As part of my GCSE English “Macbeth” coursework, I had to analyse how Lady Macbeth persuaded Macbeth to murder Duncan, with a detailed reference to Act 1 Scenes 5, 6 and 7 and Act II scene 1. Also, I needed to consider the events and themes of the play so …

Macbeth is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is a story of deception, where trusted comrades are betrayed in the story of a complex assassination. Two of the main characters, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, share commonalities and differences that combine to create the tension and ambitious greed needed to …

Lady Macbeth, at the beginning of the play, is an evil and ruthless character, who wants only power and control for herself and plans on using Macbeth to gain it. However, near the end, before she dies, she changes greatly to a vulnerable, child-like character who has become mentally unstable …