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Shakespeare explored the dark side of the human psyche in Macbeth. He explores our capacity for violence and evil. Macbeth is a tragedy: a kind of play in which human actions have inevitable consequences, in which the characters’ bad deeds, errors, mistakes, and crimes are never forgiven or rectified. In the beginning of the play, the character Macbeth meets three weird sisters. Each sister tells Macbeth a prophecy that will later come true. The first sister says, “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to…

Macbeth expresses guilt shortly after killing the king and after hiring murderers. His remorse makes him a more human character and makes his downfall more tragic. Macbeth is introduced in the play as a warrior hero, whose fame on the battlefield wins him great honor from the king at the beginning he is a loyal person, a human that has feelings, basically he still having conscience and because of his good actions he receive the name of Thane of Cawdor. But the ambition started when the witches…

"fools," "frets" and "idiot," are not used by accident (77). Shakespeare exemplifies Macbeth’s feeling of having no purpose in those words. Macbeth demonstrates that life itself is meaningless and that he is tired of doing everything to become king of Scotland. After committing mass murders, Macbeth finds that the only things his life as king has given him are mistrust and paranoia. Macbeth finally understands that no matter what he does, like any human being he is mortal and that the life he…

that time, and people, including Shakespeare believed in this order. As Macbeth’s acts out his desires and disrupts nature of its order, Macbeth is faced with God’s punishment; his conscience torn between his innate honour and his ambition of ruling Scotland. Not only does he face divine retribution but he is also haunted by his guilty imaginations. Through phonetic lines and literary devices, Shakespeare exposes the audience to the weight of Macbeth’s sins as he is forced to fight against…

Throughout the story Macbeth went on a tragic downfall, murdering his friends and the people he loved. He went from a loyal Thane to murderous king who had one goal of maintaining the crown. Although Macbeth was the one to go on a drastic downfall, Macbeth is not the one responsible for this it. Lady Macbeth is to blame for Macbeth’s downfall. Lady Macbeth starts to manipulate Macbeth by convincing him he is not manly. After the three witches prophecy, Macbeth has written his wife…

The relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth changed across the course of the entire play. There is no definitive way to say which was stronger as it would depend what your comparing the attribute of strength to and the time of comparison. Macbeth was a soldier and a war hero at the beginning of the play and Lady Macbeth was just a housewife so in terms of physical strength it could be assumed Macbeth was in the lead and stayed consistently in the lead for the remainder of the play. If…

recognized from the actions he decides to take. Macbeth loses his glory, and becomes a corrupt man. As the tale of Macbeth progresses, Macbeth consistently makes poor decisions that darken his reputation of a glorious warrior who fights for the people of Scotland. To a certain extent, Macbeth acknowledges the thin ice he is standing on, however, Macbeth considers himself invincible as king-believing the prophecy of the witches that…

True Colors of Lady Macbeth Lady Macbeth represents the color red.This color is associated with determination, blood, and her evil ambitions. Macbeth. "If we should fail? /Lady M. We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place And we'll not fail." (Act 1,line 59-61). The quote above shows that if Lady Macbeth wants something failure is not an option.She isn’t someone that settles down with whatever the circumstances might bring, she is determined to fight hard for what she wants. She…

Now that Macbeth’s drive for the most power possible, he starts to devold a terrible mindset by making bad choices and wrong actions which shows that power can and might lead to corruption. During the various acts Macbeth goes against his wills and murders King Duncan. He does this to be become the king. This then connects to corruption in the power. During the part where Macduff is chatting to Lennox about Duncan's death, he says “O horror, horror, horror!” This represents the fear that…

The question people often ask after seeing Shakespeare’s Macbeth is why Macbeth falls into such depths of evil. It almost seems as if Macbeth is a pawn of fate, with influences his choices, like the witches and his wife pushing him towards murder and evil. However, in reality, Macbeth is not a pawn of fate. Although, he freely chooses to let fateful factors influence him to murder and then chooses to keep on murdering. Although the witches and Lady Macbeth influenced Macbeth, he ultimately acts…