Macbeth - Tragedy Essay

My aim in this essay is to explain what Act 1, scene 7 tells us about the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, and what troubles does Macbeth come across and how does Lady Macbeth persuade him to murder King Duncan.

Macbeth recognizes that the dagger is not real and accepts this. This is his first step into insanity. As he admits, his mind is feverish with excitement and perhaps dread, and he understands that this vision is ominous. His internal conflict has now begun to develop; his ambition is driving him to do something and subconsciously he knows it is not right.

The characters go through a number of changes in feeling through the scene; these changes will be looked at in detail in the main body of the essay. This scene takes place immediately after the murder of Duncan. Meanwhile Lady Macbeth is anxiously wondering whether Macbeth will really do the deed. When he returns, covered in blood and highly strung, she organises how to cover up the murder so that they won't be found out. In this scene we see certain emotions in the characters,

With attention to the murder of King Duncan, Macbeth struggles with the morality of his actions. Before the murder takes place, Macbeth begins to believe that the murder will “be the be-all and the end-all” to his clear conscious and would risk him to eternal damnation (Act I, line 5). Yet, the murder would bring him power over Scotland and he “shalt be kind” as told by the Weird Sisters(Act 1, line 50). Macbeth goes off of his ambition to murder King Duncan. The internal struggle of choosing mortality over motives brought forth an intense shift of loyalty to betrayal. The murder caused for Macbeth to turn on Scotland and only care for his own selfish motives. The betrayal causes for the play to become horrific and have a double meaning. Macbeth must put on a face to hide his murder to become the king. The double meaning is how Macbeth looks like a hero to all of Scotland, but only the people on the inside know of his horrific actions. He had to murder to to get the position of King, but the

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a tragedy in which the main characters are obsessed by the desire for power. Macbeth’s aspiration for power blinds him to the ethical implications of his dreadful acts. The more that Shakespeare’s Macbeth represses his murderous feelings, the more he is haunted by them. By analyzing his hallucinations it is possible to trace his deteriorating mental state and the trajectory of his ultimate fall. Throughout the play Macbeth is never satisfied with himself. He feels the need to keep committing crime in order to keep what he wants most: his kingship. The harder Macbeth tries to change his fate the more he tends to run into his fate. His ambition and struggle for power was Macbeth’s tragic flaw in the play.

This element is key in developing the audience’s view of Macbeth and his reprehensible crimes. This scenes absence teamed with the accidental manner in which Mac commits the plotted murder of Duncan aid in securing a less contemptible opinion of Mac.

After Macbeth saw and heard what the 3 witches said he becomes the Thane of Cawdor because the other one was executed for treason so then he figures that since I'm already the Thane of Glamis and now I'm the Thane of Cawdor maybe the other

When evaluating his decision to kill Duncan, Macbeth changes his mind several times because of his fear of unknown consequences, which is evident when he asks his wife, “if we should fail” (1.7.58)? This fear, coupled with indecisiveness and ambiguity, creates an immense amount of guilt that Macbeth feels over the course of several murders, an example of which is the imaginary dagger that represents his guilty conscious (2.1.49-50). And despite successfully killing Duncan, Macbeth’s manifestations of guilt impair his judgment and dull his ability to reason, such as when he forgets to leave the bloody knives in the king’s chamber or when he rashly kills the king’s

The tragedy seen in this play is the loss of the man that Macbeth could have been, hadn’t he given in to fulfilling his ambition. Shakespeare leads us to see the deterioration in both Macbeth’s character and his morality. Macbeth, being the tragic hero of the play, undergoes some great changes throughout the acts. Macbeth cannot resist his ambition, and this leads him to his downfall. After a lot of deliberating within himself he decides to act on the witches’ prophecies. He freely decides to believe in what the witches

Although William Shakespeare created the play, Macbeth, to be a tragedy, the tragic hero can hardly be considered to be one. For the entirety of one of Shakespeare’s most magnificent works, Macbeth is controlled and manipulated into committing atrocious acts that the witches and his wife desire. He is powerless to their tricks and through their sorcery/cunning words and his own morals (or lack thereof) “sustain[s] the central paradox–the heroic murderer” (Cusick). Despite the fact that he laments the loss of his king, Duncan, he still continues down his path of evil that only has one ending: his death. Although Macbeth gains a few insights on his inner self, his lack of ability to resist manipulation, willingness to kill, combined with his

It is human nature to be intrigued by all things mystical and dangerous. We fear the unknown but seek it nonetheless out of greed. Most of Shakespeare’s works hold an element of the supernatural and the play Macbeth is no exception. In this play we see a contemporary morality that warns of the dangers of trafficking with instruments of darkness; the witches in the play prophesize of Macbeths future as king, and Macbeth blinded by his hunger for power fails to recognize that the witches prophecies are luring him to evil . In act 1 scène 3 we see the effect that the excitement of the prophecies has had on his imagination as he begins to contemplate murdering the king. As Macbeth gets closer to

Duncan’s caused me fear and pity. I was able to image the scene and while I was “inside” of the play at that particular time, I felt fear for what would happen to the king. I just wanted to warm Duncan about what Macbeth and his wife were planning to do against him. “Run, Run!” I wanted to exclaim to Duncan. Regarding to Macbeth, “How can you do this to the king? Or How can you be manipulated by your wife?” were some of the things that I would say to Macbeth. On other hand, the death of Lady Macbeth was an event that touched my heart. Even though, Macbeth made many mistakes in his life, I could not avoid to feel pity when he express the words, “She should have died hereafter…Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player. It is a tale.” Even

Macbeth’s good nature is increasingly defeated by one of his major flaws-ambition. His ambition and desire to become king leads

   The dark aura surrounding Shakespeare's Macbeth is well deserved, as is the darkness shrouding its title character. Although Macbeth is certainly a villainous, evil man based solely on his actions, a fuller examination of his character's portrayal leads to a more sympathetic view of him. 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.

“Macbeth” has continued its suspicious theme in the coming acts. Macbeth is still continuing to be highly pressured by Lady Macbeth over whether or not to kill Duncan. He is torn between having the blood on his hands and trying to live with it or not being king. He can’t get the idea of being king out of his mind and Lady Macbeth is totally consumed with the thought. Macbeth has a dream about a dagger and decides that this is a sign helping him choose on what he should do. Macbeth goes to do the deed and Lady Macbeth hears him cry out thinking that he has failed. When he returns he has blood covering his hands and is somewhat upset. Lady Macbeth was furious because she thought he had been caught. When she realizes that he didn't fail she is pleased with him.