Power Hungry Characters

1. Power Hungry Characters www.josephhaworth.com Richard – Richard III Claudius – Hamlet Lady Macbeth - Macbeth Cassius – Julius Caesar www.notexactlyrocketscience.wordpress.com ... http://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/520a/richard.jpeg http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2720110592/nm0001394

2. Richard III • An incredibly evil man who kills anyone standing in his way to become King • Very manipulative • Physically disabled • Very determined to get his way http://www.impawards.com/1995/posters/richard_iii_ver3.jpg

3. Richard III “The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight. Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh., What do I fear? Myself? There’s none else by. Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I. Is there a murderer here? No. Yes, I am. Then fly! What, from myself? Great reason. Why: Lest I revenge. Myself upon myself? lack, I love myself. Wherefore? For any good That I myself have done unto myself? O no, alas, I rather hate myself For hateful deeds committed by myself. I am a villain.” http://shelflove.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/richardiii.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Garrick_as_Richard_III.jpg

4. Claudius • Killed his own brother, King Hamlet, to be King (poisoned him) • Lord Hamlet hates him • A very secretive man, no one knows of the murder he committed • Marries the Queen, Lord Hamlet’s mother • Manipulative and conniving http://www.astor-theatre.com/images/hamlet/claudius.gif

5. Claudius GHOST- ”Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts— O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!—won to his shameful lust The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen. O Hamlet, what a falling off was there! From me, whose love was of that dignity That it went hand in hand even with the vow I made to her in marriage, and to decline Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor To those of mine. But virtue, as it never will be moved, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven, So lust, though to a radiant angel linked, Will sate itself in a celestial bed And prey on garbage. But soft! Methinks I scent the morning air. Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard, My custom always of the afternoon, Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole With juice of cursed hereon in a vial, And in the porches of my ears did pour The leprous distilment, whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man That swift as quicksilver it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body And with a sudden vigor doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood. So did it mine. And a most instant tatter barked about, Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust All my smooth body. Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's handOf life, of crown, of queen at once dispatched, Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/02.20.97/gifs/jacobi-9708.jpg

6. Lady Macbeth • Lusts for power and position • Convinces her husband to kill Duncan for the crown • She is the stronger person in her marriage • The guilt of causing bloodshed causes her to go insane • The guilt she feels for her crime ends up having her commit suicide http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_k_MySp2fR8c/SKWeUcKwurI/AAAAAAAABKg/OET8rgMs9G8/S600/Elena+Baramova+-+Lady+Macbeth+2007.jpg

7. Lady Macbeth “The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood, Stop up th’access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between Th’ effect and it. Come to my woman’s breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature’s mischief. Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry ‘Hold, hold!” –Lady Macbeth www.shakespearenj.org/.../Lady-M-floor-web.jpg “Out, damned spot; out, I say. One, two,—why, then ’tis time to do’t. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier and afeard? What need we fear who knows it when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?”– Lady Macbeth

8. Cassius • Was once a true friend of Caesar’s • Became very manipulative and plotted against him • Convinces Brutus that Caesar has become too powerful and must die • Cassius ends up persuading Brutus to stab Caesar at the Capitol www.josephhaworth.com/in_character_photos.htm

9. Cassius “There’s a bargain made. Now I know you Casca. I have moved already some certain of the noblest-minded Romans to undergo with me an enterprise of honorab;e-dangerous consequence. And I do know this they stay for me in Pompey’s porch. For now, this fearful night, there is no stir or walking in the streets, and complexion of element in favor’s like the work we have in hand, most bloody, fiery, and terrible.” -Cassius • “Well, Brutus, thou art noble. Yet I see Thy honorable mettle may be wrought From that it is disposed. Therefore it is meet That noble minds keep ever with their likes, For who so firm that cannot be seduced? Caesar doth bear me hard, but he loves Brutus. If I were Brutus now and he were Cassius, He should not humor me. I will this night, In several hands, in at his windows throw, As if they came from several citizens, Writings all tending to the great opinion That Rome holds of his name, wherein obscurely Caesar's ambition shall be glancèd at. And after this let Caesar seat him sure, For we will shake him, or worse days endure” -Cassius www.ycs.nt.ca/.../images/ancientRome_Full.jpg

10. Works Cited • "Julius Caeser: Entire Play." The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. 28 May 2009 <http://shakespeare.mit.edu/julius_caesar/full.html>. • SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides. 28 May 2009 <http://www.sparknotes.com>. • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. 28 May 2009 <http://shakespeare.mit.edu/>.