On August 20th, 2015, Patrick Nabarro, a celebrated review writer, published his ranking of all Shakespeare plays on his personal website. Among all Shakespeare plays, Macbeth is one of the top three, which Nabarro described as:
A thick, pungent, uncanny atmosphere hovers over this profoundly wise and timeless essay on the wilful corruption of a man’s soul. The beauty of the play is how it conjures ‘evil’ out of roots so unlikely, so banal (but therein lies the genius), as phantasmic predictions, an ambitious wife, a hasty act, and a growing sense of weariness and malaise, all conspire against Macbeth (pnabarro.wordpress.com).
The rise and fall of Macbeth is so dramatic and so fascinating that it reminds me of a similar cartoon I profoundly …show more content…
Forster defined dynamic characters as roles who change over the course. On the contrary, static characters involve no change throughout a story (Forster, Aspect of the Novel). During his rise and fall, Macbeth is presented as a dynamic character. On contrast, Scar is a static character who didn’t change at all. The tragedy of Macbeth represents the degeneration of a hero. It displays how crazy a person be to seize power. At the beginning of the story, Macbeth is a man who’s upright and kind. He wouldn’t kill any innocent people for his own …show more content…
“Foul is fair, and fair is foul” can be interpreted in many different means, but the essential messages underlie these interpretations are unanimous. They can be concluded as the following: “what seems good can turn out bad, and one should never believe one’s eyes because the semblance of things could be deceitful.” Taking Macbeth as an example, he fundamentally demonstrates the spirit of “foul is fair and fair is foul”. He, as Lady Macbeth urges, become a person who “look like the innocent flower, / but be the serpent under't (1.5.65-66).” His hypocrisy is shown through two events: the death of King Duncan and the death of Banquo. After he kills King Duncan, he pretends to be exceedingly desperate and distressed because of King Duncan’s death (2.3.68-71). His deceitful appearance enables him to escape suspicion successfully. During his murder of Banquo, he told all Scottish
A thick, pungent, uncanny atmosphere hovers over this profoundly wise and timeless essay on the wilful corruption of a man’s soul. The beauty of the play is how it conjures ‘evil’ out of roots so unlikely, so banal (but therein lies the genius), as phantasmic predictions, an ambitious wife, a hasty act, and a growing sense of weariness and malaise, all conspire against Macbeth (pnabarro.wordpress.com).
The rise and fall of Macbeth is so dramatic and so fascinating that it reminds me of a similar cartoon I profoundly …show more content…
Forster defined dynamic characters as roles who change over the course. On the contrary, static characters involve no change throughout a story (Forster, Aspect of the Novel). During his rise and fall, Macbeth is presented as a dynamic character. On contrast, Scar is a static character who didn’t change at all. The tragedy of Macbeth represents the degeneration of a hero. It displays how crazy a person be to seize power. At the beginning of the story, Macbeth is a man who’s upright and kind. He wouldn’t kill any innocent people for his own …show more content…
“Foul is fair, and fair is foul” can be interpreted in many different means, but the essential messages underlie these interpretations are unanimous. They can be concluded as the following: “what seems good can turn out bad, and one should never believe one’s eyes because the semblance of things could be deceitful.” Taking Macbeth as an example, he fundamentally demonstrates the spirit of “foul is fair and fair is foul”. He, as Lady Macbeth urges, become a person who “look like the innocent flower, / but be the serpent under't (1.5.65-66).” His hypocrisy is shown through two events: the death of King Duncan and the death of Banquo. After he kills King Duncan, he pretends to be exceedingly desperate and distressed because of King Duncan’s death (2.3.68-71). His deceitful appearance enables him to escape suspicion successfully. During his murder of Banquo, he told all Scottish