Comparative Analysis of the Tragedy of Characters Creon in Sophocles' "Antigone" and Macbeth in William Shakespeare's "Macbeth"
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A 5 page paper which considers the tragic elements of these characters by examining conflicts between father and child, good king/person and bad king/person, male and female. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Paper Title: Comparative Analysis of the Tragedy of Characters Creon in Sophocles' "Antigone" and Macbeth in William Shakespeare's "Macbeth"

Compare and Contrast: The Characters of Seneca's Oedipus and Macbeth
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5 pages in length. Seneca's Oedipus is a quite more violent and gruesome version than that of the play by Sophocles. By comparing the characters in Macbeth and Seneca's Oedipus, one can see what the playwright is able to create in terms of manipulating the audience and how the characters are used in this way. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Paper Title: Compare and Contrast: The Characters of Seneca's Oedipus and Macbeth

Compare Clytamaenestra From Aeschylus’ Trilogy, “The Oresteia” With William Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth
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A 6 page paper which compares the treacherous antagonist Clytamaenestra, who is featured in “Agamemnon’ & “The Libation Bearers,” and as a ghost in “The Eumenides” of Aeschylus’ trilogy, “The Oresteia” with William Shakespeare’s ambitious antagonist, Lady Macbeth, to determine if Shakespeare used Aeschylus’ female character as a model. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Paper Title: Compare Clytamaenestra From Aeschylus’ Trilogy, “The Oresteia” With William Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth

Comparing the Uses of the Supernatural in Shakespeare’s Comedies and Tragedies
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This 7 page report discusses the ways in which in much of Shakespeare’s work, the supernatural -- in the form of ghosts, fairies, strange creatures, and unnatural weather phenomena -- exist as much as a character in the play as any of the flesh and blood characters. In several of Shakespeare’s other works, the function of the supernatural is a more subtle occurrence but one that has an even more profound impact on the plays’ characters and the outcomes of events. This paper looks at the different applications in Shakespeare’s romances compared to tragedies. Plays discussed are: “Macbeth,” “Antony and Cleopatra,” “The Winter’s Tale,” and “The Tempest.” No secondary sources.
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Paper Title: Comparing the Uses of the Supernatural in Shakespeare’s Comedies and Tragedies

Comparison of a Chaucer's A Pardoner's Tale and Shakespeare's Macbeth
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This 5 page paper compares and contrasts these two infamous works. Common themes are discussed with an emphasis on death. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Paper Title: Comparison of a Chaucer's A Pardoner's Tale and Shakespeare's Macbeth

CRITICAL ESSAY ON THE ROLE OF THE SUPERNATURAL IN SHAKESPEARE’S MACBETH
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This 10 page paper discusses the problematic nature of Macbeth's belief in the supernatural and the manipulation that occurs due to his superstitions. Quotes cited from text, examples given to support thesis. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Paper Title: CRITICAL ESSAY ON THE ROLE OF THE SUPERNATURAL IN SHAKESPEARE’S MACBETH

Critiquing Shakespeare's Macbeth
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This 5 page paper provides three literary critiques of Shakespeare's Macbeth, as well as a tutorial on writing a critique based on the thesis: William Shakespeare, in Macbeth, balances the evil of the murder of the King with the acknowledgment of the difference between good and evil, making the reader more sympathetic to the crime. A tutorial critique of the critiques is included. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Paper Title: Critiquing Shakespeare's Macbeth

Dark Keys to Shakespearean Conflict
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(10 pp) In any tragedy, it is tension or conflict which keeps the play moving. Modern jargon would call it "spin" and "counterspin." In this discussion we will compare the sources of conflict in two plays, Othello and Macbeth. Iago and Lady Macbeth are our major obsessives,the first prompted by an apparent frustration with being passed over in military command, yet disguising a darker personal agenda, and the second, Lady Macbeth with a compulsive need for power and title.
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Paper Title: Dark Keys to Shakespearean Conflict

Destiny's Hand
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There are many instances in life where it may feel as though destiny has leaned down and taken a hand. It is sometimes a small thing, however, it can - and often is - life changing. This 5 page paper asserts that in Shakespeare's Macbeth, the witches are a life changing influence upon Macbeth. In the movie, Chinatown, the character of Noah Cross shapes the destiny of Jake Gittes and in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Tom Doniphon steps in to change the future of Rause Stoddard. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Paper Title: Destiny's Hand

Doctor Faustus and MacBeth
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A 10 page paper which examines how the character of Doctor Faustus is not a character we can sympathize with or even pity, unlike Macbeth whom we can pity and have sympathy for. No additional sources cited.
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Paper Title: Doctor Faustus and MacBeth