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How Does Everyone Make Mistakes In Macbeth

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A common phrase is "everyone makes mistakes." How this phrase is debunked usually is that justification is more important. However, justification and sympathy aren't directly correlated and both are possible to achieve simultaneously in a juggle of understanding the good and bad. In William Shakespeare's written play Macbeth, the main character is Macbeth who, in historical context, commits the worst crime thinkable—killing a king. What prohibits his immediate punishment is secrecy and tactfulness but his ultimate downfall isn't the crime but the sympathy he lacks. Macbeth deserves sympathy because he's wrongly influenced, he shows emotional remorse, and he is ultimately led to proper punishment anyway.

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Who first initiates the idea of Macbeth becoming king to the reader were the three witches who randomly appear to Macbeth and Banquo. They introduce the prophecy to Macbeth by chanting, "all hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!" (Act 1, Scene 3). The witches purposely call Macbeth this, clearly leading him to think of what this could mean and how it could be implemented Without them, it's very much likely that Macbeth would not even have thought to take power from the king as he did. Obviously, Macbeth begins, after the witches' prophecy, to actually consider this and his wife, Lady Macbeth, desperately tries to persuade him into killing Duncan. Endlessly, Lady Macbeth tries to use different persuasion methods to convince Macbeth; however, the seemingly successful method is threatening an already-ambitious man's masculinity. Lady Macbeth challenges Macbeth by arguing, "What beast was't, then, that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you …show more content…

Right after he murders the king, Macbeth immediately feels guilty when he goes to tell his wife. He shows obvious nervousness and anxiety when coming back to see Lady Macbeth and even when she welcomes him and asks him to mask the evidence, he says, "I’ll go no more: I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on ’t again I dare not" (Act 2, Scene 2). This evidence is very powerful because Lady Macbeth shows extreme pride in her husband for going through with the murder; and yet, as she commends him, Macbeth is solemn and full of disbelief. Not only does Macbeth feel bad for what he did, but shows lack of extraneous emotion towards his wife, even in her highest of praises—a foreshadowing of what's to come. Additionally, with the gradual loss of emotion through Macbeth's guilt and grief, he shows the zenith of his own lack of morality; he doesn't react whatsoever when his own wife dies. As Macbeth transgresses moral codes of all kinds and murders even more people, he shows an especially numb side of him when Lady Macbeth's death is told to him and he responds, "she should have died hereafter" (Act 5, Scene 5). Though a cold-hearted and ignorant response may establish itself as corrupt, it's really a sign of a total lack of care. Macbeth has undeniably shifted in emotional responsivity as in the beginning, he showed immediate guilt and fear to a death; but now, feels indifference and ignorance to death, even to that of which would

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