Macbeth which is set in Scotland mixes with craft, prophecy and murder. Shakes pear is a universal playwright. He wrote 37 plays 154 sonnets 2 long narrative poems. In the present play the three witches represent darkness, chaos and conflict while their role is as agents and witness. They represent treason and impending doom at the time of Shakespear witches were seen as worse than rebels, "the most notorious traitor and rebel that can be. They were not only political traitors but spiritual traitors
because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it” (A. Einstein). Evil is a destruction that causes people to commit unnatural actions of harm. The play is centered on the coexistence of good and evil. The evil of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth is so great that it ultimately destroys both of them. The human soul cannot endure such evil; it destroys the soul. It is incompatible with humanity. In the beginning of the play, Macbeth was presented with three prophecies
Shakespeare's play Macbeth shows the roots of all evil, our own human nature. The play is centered on the coexistence of good and evil. Macbeth, unlike any other Shakespeare play has the protagonist convert to evil. In the beginning of the play, Macbeth is shown as a hero in the Scottish army, that is ironic because Macbeth defeats a traitor and he himself becomes one later. Macbeth knows his place in the world. He is fully capable of distinguishing between right and wrong. Macbeth purposely disregards
In Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”, words and actions have a dichotomic relationship that one would not expect. This is illustrated through the use of the theme, fair is foul and foul is fair. In the English language, the verb to be is used as an equal sign. The word that precedes the verb is defined as being equal to the word that follows the verb; therefore, fair and foul should be synonyms. In ‘Macbeth”, Shakespeare uses this theme to show the coexistence of good and evil that occurs within the same