Act 3 of Macbeth serves mainly to...what?
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It doesn't introduce the climax, as most of that happens in Act IV with the MacDuff/Malcolm scene. It doesn't introduce important new characters, as pretty much everyone has been introduced already. It doesn't resolve the central conflicts, since that's what happens at the end.\n\nSo it's B, expose his mounting troubles.
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Could you let me know what your question is? I know Shakespeare fairly well.
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This is everything that I have on "Macbeth".\n\nMacbeth by William Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.elook.org/literature/shakespeare/macbeth/\n\nAn Introduction to Macbeth \nThe Symbolic Pattern\n\nhttp://www.eastdonsc.vic.edu.au/home/pgardner/teaching/Macbeth_notes.html\n\nI have found 12 summaries for you to look at, click the link below. I have included a short extract to give you a taste of what the reviews have to offer and they’re FREE..!!!\n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=251\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=Macbeth\n\nhttp://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xMacbeth.html\n\nhttp://www.clicknotes.com/\n\nAn analysis of the play by Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.theatrehistory.com/british/macbeth001.html\n\nProtagonist \n\nMacbeth as the personification of greed and resulting evil. He kills the king to seize the throne for himself and continues to murder to protect himself from discovery. \n\nAntagonist \n\nHis conscience and guilt, which are his undoing (and the forces of good at work) \n\nhttp://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmMacbeth04.asp\n\nMacbeth Literary Analysis\n\nhttp://www.freeessays.cc/db/42/sra201.shtml\n\nEnjoying "Macbeth", by William Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.pathguy.com/macbeth.htm\n\nMacbeth Symbolism, take inspiration from this essay and beware of plagiarism.\n\nhttp://www.freeessays.cc/db/42/sra216.shtml\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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A bunch of books, plays, etc. from England are usually read and discussed in English literature.  You can pretty much guarantee that Shakespeare will be read.
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King Lear is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.   The whole play is about lack of compromise.  \n\nGoneril poisoned her sister Regan and then killed herself.  These sites should be quite helpful to you.  Best of luck with your work.
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1. At the end of which Act...? Act III? Romeo of course does not wish to leave Verona, but he must in order to survive. Both are miserably unhappy. As Juliet learns she must be wed to Paris, she becomes angry and rebels against her father. In the end, she feels like everyone has turned on her--even the Nurse. She goes to seek help from the only person she trusts--Friar Lawrence. Not sure that this answers your question, though.\n\n2. Romeo feels responsible for Mercutio's death because Mercutio was stabbed under his arm (Act III, Scene i). He was trying to prevent Mercutio and Tybalt from fighting, as he has recently married Juliet (Tybalt's cousin). His guilt and rage over this accident lead him to attack and kill Tybalt, which ultimately leads to his banishment from Verona.\n\n3. Shakespeare uses the images of darkness and light quite frequently. When Romeo first meets Juliet, he compares her to a star in the sky or a jewel in the ear of an African (Act I, Scene v). He also compares her to a dove amidst crows. Later, on the balcony, he compares her to the sun (Act II, Scene ii). Juliet hopes that when Romeo dies, he will become the stars in the sky, so that "all the world will fall in love with night." (not sure of the exact spot but I think it's Act III, Scene ii).
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Have you read the play?  It might be easier to answer if you have!  We can't do your homework for you!  But, here are some questions to get you thinking . . . \n\nWhat COULDN'T Hamlet make up his mind about?  And why was this tragic?  \n\nThese seem like simple, or even stupid, questions, but answering them will give you a place to start . . .
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1. Conflict shown between Montagues and Capulets.  The Price of Padua bans all fighting.  Romeo crashes a Capulet party, sees Juliet, and forgets all about some other woman he was in love with before.  Later he climbs up on Juliet's balcony and finds out she loves him back.  They kiss.\n\n2. Romeo and Juliet decide to get married and find a willing priest to marry them.  Romeo and Tybalt (Juliet's brother) get into an argument and Mercutio (Romeo's friend) gets in the way.  Tybalt kills Mercutio and Romeo kills Tybalt.  Juliet hears of this news and is upset.  Romeo is banished by the Prince and must flee Padua.\n\n3.  In order to flee Padua to be with Romeo (now her husband) Juliet takes poison to feign death.  Juliet's nurse is supposed to tell Romeo but she is harassed by Romeo's friends, gets angry, and doesn't give anyone the message.  Romeo thinks Juliet is really dead, visits her crypt, takes some poison, and drinks.  He dies.  Juliet wakes up, sees Romeo dead, takes his dagger, and kills herself.  Everyone else find them lying together and is very sorry.\n\nUpdate:  Both the Montagues and the Capulets are rival noble families in Padua (Italy).  They are not of different social classes, they're just mad at each other.
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We play ourselves, we experience the results of others playing themselves also.  Everyone has free will.\n\nYes, we are somewhat like actors on a stage as Shakespeare and others have said.\n\nBut this is not all there is.  This is only a beginning.\n\nThe play ends differently for different actors.\n\nhttp://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-7dNzZV06cpnGmuKQRUwj0WV6Ig--?cq=1&p=1
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Act I, Scene I:\nFirst, while ending a meeting, the witches agree to reconvene “when the battle’s lost and won” (Line 4). Then they warn the audience that “fair is foul, and foul is fair” (Line 12).\nIn Scene II, the nobleman Ross informs King Duncan that a trusted lord, the thane of Cawdor, is a traitor who conspired with the enemy. In other words, the fair Cawdor is foul.\n.......When the witches predict that Macbeth will become king and that Banquo will beget a line of kings, both men react by speaking contradictions reflecting caution and confusion. Banquo says in Act I, Scene III:  \nOftentimes, to win us to our harm, \nThe instruments of darkness tell us truths, \nWin us with honest trifles, to betray's \nIn deepest consequence.\n\nFrom: In Macbeth True Is False and Fair Is Foul\nBy Michael J. Cummings © 2006\nThere are more paradoxes listed in the essay.\nhttp://cummingsstudyguides.net/xMacbeth.html
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It's been a while since I analyzed that. I'll just have to go off the cuff here. Darkness seems to be a common setting for the Capulet party at night, the sneaking around between major scenes, going to see the Friar, inside the family tombs, etc. Darkness itself does not necessarily mean evil in this play, but more of the fact that due to miscommunication and violent grudges, people keep acting while being left mentally "in the dark" as to what other options would be available. Darkness may also serve as a sort of foreshadowing of a sad and dark ending to this tragedy.
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I'm not going to tell you what to write, because that would be cheating, but I can give you ideas.\nSomething I always saw as good was how Shakespeare would begin some of his plays.  Basically telling the audience what was going to happen, in case they got too distracted to finish watching.\nSince you know the characters begin with one of them and relate all the other characters through them.  {Jem was the son of Atticus, who defended Tom in the rape trial, just with a little more detail}\nHope this helps! :)
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Julius Caesar should have stopped at Act 3... but personal opinions aside... have you read Act 5?\n\nHave you read about all the bodies dropping onto their swords?  Does this surprise you?  Does this change your opinion of the men who thought they were killing Caesar to save their country?\n\nNot gonna do your homework for you.  If you're confused, try asking better questions.
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First, I would have acted quickly.  Hamlet hems and haws and does basically nothing for a long time.  And that antic disposition?  What's the point of pretending you're insane?  What, really, did that buy him in the end?\n\nHere's what I would have done.\n\n1. I wouldn't have changed the way I acted--especially acting insane.\n2. I would have tried to verify what the ghost said.  Specifically, \na: Where was the uncle when Hamlet's father was killed?\nb: Where was the king's guards (the "Switzers" referred to when Laertes barges in on the king later in the play)\nc: Where might the uncle have found such poison?  (In Shakespeare's world this may not have been hard... Romeo sure finds poison easily enough)\n\nThe play Hamlet devises is a clever choice, but he more or less ruins the effectiveness of the play as a test by acting out during the performance.  It becomes impossible to tell wether Hamlet's uncle is reacting to the matter of the play (as Hamlet supposes) or to the bizare behavior of Hamlet himself.  Again, the antic disposition only brings Hamlet problems (and we are left to wonder whether it's all an act or if he really is insane).
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Well I honsetly think that you should read Romeo and Juilet. It is one of the best from Shakespear. I know that sometimes Shakespear is hard to read because it is in old english, but I have become good at deicphering Shakespear so...\n1. In act 3, the tension between the 2 familes comes to a climax. Romeo and Tybalt fight and Tybalt and Mercutio die. \n2. Romeo tires to ignore Tybalt because he doesnt want to be in trouble. Ironically, thats what happens. Also he doesnt want to disgrace Juliet. \n3. Romeo is angry about the fight because first, he killed Tyablt and he is banished from the city. That means he will never see his beloved Juliet again. \n4. The nurse is cruel to Juliet because she wants her to get over Romeo and his departure. The nurse always knew what would happen if Romeo and Juliet were to marry.\n5. Well the nurse and the friar arrange to have Romeo sneak into Juliets room for one last night together. \n6. Juliet believes that Romeo will die\n7. Lady Capulet says that she needs to continue to mourn her cousins death, although that is not what she is really mourning. Lady Capulet also thinks that Juliet needs to move on with life.\n8. Romeos departure\n9. I dont know that reason. \n10. Juliet is devistated and does not want to marry. She refuses to and her father disowns her. \n11. To go to Friar Lawernce and figure out a plan\n12. To drink potion that would make her sleep deelpy and long enough to convince people that she is dead. Once she is placed in the tomb, she will run to whereever Romeo is staying.
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Are you working on anything else beside Macbeth
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It's a while since I read Romeo and Juliet. If you would like to explain what happens in Act 2 Scene 2 then I might be able to help...