Macbeth Essay
Throughout Shakespeare's play Macbeth a full examination of his characters, Lady Mabeth and Macbeths portrayal leads to a more sympathetic view of them. The play does not portray Macbeth simply as a cold blooded murderer but rather as a tortured soul attempting to deal with the atrocities surrounding him. Lady Macbeth represses the better side of her nature and the pressure of this awareness and her guilt leads to sleepwalking, near - madness and death.Macbeth entered the play as a man of honour, respected by his fellow soldiers and showed great bravery and physical strength, fighting under King Duncan. "Disdaining fortune with his brandished steel...smoked with bloody execution...carved out his passage...fixed his head upon our battlement" from this quote we can image Macbeths heroic qualities: courage, bravery and fearlessness. While Macbeth is in battle, the Thane Of Cawdor is found to be a traitor and executed. King Duncan hears of Macbeths bravery and grants him the Thane's title. "No more that Thane Of Cawdor shall deceive......Go pronounce his present death and with his former title greet Macbeth." This leads us to believe that Macbeth is in no way a traitor and that he is brave enough to deserve such a distinguishe
Lady Macbeth is depicted as being much worse than her husband. No one should feel any acts of sympathy towards these weak people overpowered by evil and love. "Yet all in the end, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth only gained one thing. Love is a powerful force and people act irrationally when under its spell. When he looks at his hands he says "I am afraid to think what I have done. Macbeth plans the murder of Banquo without Lady MacBeth's knowledge because he does not need her now. In the end she cannot live with herself. It is clear to feel some sympathy towards Macbeth and Lady Macbeth with evil taking over them yet clearly they brought it upon themselves. Lady Macbeth has no knowledge of this, and would not have done so herself. "You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting with most admired disorder. "All the perfume of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. He doesn't blame her for his evil doings, yet she is the one who initially put this drive on Macbeth. Before any of the murderous activity occurs, Macbeth does not experience small ambitious premonitions he is directly told by mysterious, dark figures that the prophecies are "ordained" to happen.
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