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Examples Of Felling In Macbeth

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Macbeth is a very disturbing and dramatic story. Throughout the play, more and more unfortunate events happen to the characters. This plays into the very dark and dreadful feeling of the whole story. The felling also brings dark and even true to life themes within the story.
The first theme is power of ambition. Ambition drives a person to do good things, or in this case, bad things. Lady Macbeth uses her ambition to convince Macbeth to kill Duncan. "But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail"(Mac. 1.7.60-61). Lady Macbeth says to boost Macbeth's ambition to her level to kill Duncan. This proves to be their weakness, and overwhelming ambition started to transition them in the second theme, guilt.
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Throughout the story, it's shown that people like Macbeth and Lady Macbeth hide their true feelings. "Where we are, there's daggers in men's smiles"(Mac. 2.3.135-136). This signifies that Donalbain truly felt that people hide their sinister feelings. Even when they do hide it, eventually someone catches on to it. "Thou hast it now; King Cawdor, Glamis, all as the weird women promised, and I fear thou played'st most foully for't"(Mac. 3.1.1-3). But as seen in the story, Banquo was killed in fear of knowing this information. On the other hand, though, other people have already figured out that Macbeth is hiding his true feelings with scenes such as the dinner scene. This unnatural event plays into the last theme in the …show more content…

Unnatural is centered around events after Duncan's death and the witches. After Duncan's death, it became dark all the time and a few things unnatural happened too. "On Tuesday last, A falcon, towering in her pride of place, was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed"(Mac. 2.4.12-14). This is one example of something thrown off by the death of Duncan. Another unnatural event happening in the story was the witches and their prophecies. "Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him"(Mac. 4.1.12-14). This Is one of the many prophecies but told from an apparition, which is extremely unnatural and is a part of the supernatural. The theme signifies how out of whack nature because of the events in the story. The themes and the story have a very dark aspect and sad feeling to

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