The Paradox In Macbeth

The famous playwright named William Shakespeare if known for tragedies and comedies to reveal life in a different point of view. He has written many famous plays like, Hamlet, a Mid-Summer Nights Dream and the Tragedy of Macbeth. A tragedy is a staid play that has motivation that leads to death. A comedy is a less tragic play that involves less gruesome death and a lighter ending. One of his most famous tragedies was the “Tragedy of Macbeth”. In the tragedy of Macbeth the playwright, William Shakespeare uses paradox, struggle, and fate to express that good versus evil ultimately leads to tragedy and death.
Shakespeare uses paradox to describe how two opposites work when put together to portray the meaning of good versus evil. A character from the play the Tragedy of Macbeth, the old man uses a paradox “that would be, make good of bad and friends of foes” to portray the meaning of good versus evil.(II,IV, 41) It would be like saying to make a bad situation better and become friends to your enemies. The old man is speaking to Ross and Macduff, from the play about the king of Scotland’s sons fleeing …show more content…
He uses paradox to foreshadow events and to not only show the idea of good versus evil but how good and evil go together. Making two opposites that seem impossible, to be possible. Another main idea is the thought of struggle or conflict. Shakespeare uses conflict to show the violence and the hatred in good versus evil in the play. This concept is used in most stories to give the idea of mystery and heartache and loss. To explain an idea. Lastly, he uses the certain concept of fate to tell the true meaning of one’s life and time. In addition, that fate is inescapable. In the play the tragedy of Macbeth, William Shakespeare uses these three elements, paradox, struggle and fate to give true meaning to the concept of good versus