Examples Of Bloodlust In Macbeth

Playwright, William Shakespeare, In Act 4 scene 1 of Macbeth, reveals a new personality of bloodlust, and showing how he is too trusting from sight of the apparitions in this scene. Shakespeare’s purpose in this scene is to put on display how horrific actions such as murder can drastically change a person. He establishes a malicious tone in order to exhibit to the audience how Macbeth has become a blood hungry tyrant, and will stop at nothing to keep the crown, which would brew Shakespeare’s audience at this time, since they could connect to this tyrant as being like their own tyrannical king. In Act 4 scene 1 of Macbeth, Shakespeare conveys the tone of malevolence by his use of diction, and the contrasts created by macbeth’s dialogue from previous Acts. In this scene, maliciousness can …show more content…
This can be detected by the line Macbeth says in Act 1 scene 7 when Macbeth adds, “We will proceed no further in this business” (1.7.31). This line exhibits how Macbeth was doubting the plan of lady Macbeth, and could not imagine murdering Duncan or rather anybody. However, he then responds in his soliloquy in Act 4 with, “From this moment/ The very firstlings of my heart shall be/ The firstlings of my hand” (4.1.152-154). Further analysis suggests that this scene completely juxtaposes to what he believed in earlier, and continues to convey how murder has changed this once powerful man. Since Macbeth has not been like this earlier, it makes this scene excessive with Malice, and creates an alarmed audience to see this transition from hero to tyrant. Another point in this soliloquy is when macbeth says, “And even now,/ To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and/ done:” (4.1.154-156). This dialogue emanates malice, for that it engulfs Macbeth into being tyrannical, and the degeneration of his once heroic