No activity is truly mindless. Whether debated for a long or short period of time, every action is derived from a thought or notion. Therein the true crime lies in the thought process or motive of an action. A crime committed with the desire to improve or protect one’s own pride is selfish and often vain and derived from the desire to be accepted by others. Not every crime can be traced back to selfish intentions. To say “the only Crime is pride”, both a flawed statement and highly unlikely, is to exclude crimes sparked by any other variety of motivations. Often the desire to commit a crime can be driven by the proposition of the emotional gain, sometimes one as frivolous as pure amusement. Though it may be considered pure evil, some people …show more content…
As evil beings, almost everything they do can be looked at as a crime, or a wrong action. Their boss, Hecate, is worse, leading the Witches in their actions. Hecate’s evilness is emphasized when she says “And I, the mistress of your charms, the close contriver of all harms, was never called to bear my part, or show the glory of our art?” She is angry that she was unable to enjoy the tormenting of Macbeth. She goes on to say to the Witches “You bring your cauldrons, your spells, your charms, and everything else. I’m about to fly away. I’ll spend tonight working to make something horrible happen.” Hecate arranges further tormenting of Macbeth for sport. She makes plans to take time to cause some else confusion and pain for her own gain. Though Hecate’s crime is selfish, it is not to further her own life, but instead as a moment of entertainment. A crime of emotional gain is not one of pride. Another potential motive for crime occurs in a state of …show more content…
It is often easier to be both fearful and rational if there is a reasonable grasp of reality. In the case of Macbeth, he is more fearful of being discovered as the murder earlier in the play. As the play progresses, however, Macbeth shows less concern for life, his on and others, and more for power. Rather methodically, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth plan the death of Duncan in the hopes of claiming the crown and avoiding discovery. The original plan was for Lady Macbeth to get Duncan’s servants drunk. While they slept, Macbeth would murder Duncan with the servants’ daggers, framing them. This goes according to plan, until Macbeth strays and kills the servants. Though it was not necessary, Macbeth killed the servants to ensure they would not expose him if their memories resurfaced. He then conceals this most recent crime, claiming it was “the anger that drove me to kill them.” Macbeth attempts to make everyone believe he reacted out of grief and loyalty stating, “Who could refrain, that had a heart to love, and in that heart courage to make ’s love known?” This ploy is an attempt to make Macbeth’s actions appear to be an emotional response that occurred during a lapse in judgement. Macbeth murdered the servants in order to protect his life, and not his reputation. It is therefore a crime of rational fear,
Hecate accurately predicts and sets in motion future events to her liking. After the battle in Act I, the witches chant “All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!...” (Doc A), using their prophecies to awaken Macbeth’s bloodthirsty and greedy nature. Throughout the play, Hecate uses her witches to cultivate Macbeth’s ambition, inciting him to “Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth” (Doc D). A literary analysis aptly states that “The witches bring dark thoughts into being and give flesh to the forbidden and unacknowledged demons of the unconscious from which no one is free” (Cohen 7). Guiding the plot without consequence, Hecate is granted the ultimate
In Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of Macbeth the main character Macbeth is driven from his status as a well respected warrior and lord of not one, but two Scottish regions to a dishonest, unloyal murderer. Macbeth gets caught in a web of lies and vile acts of murder in which he brings about his own demise. His criminal actions lead up to his tragic ending of life. ‘ They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly, But bearlike I must fight the course.’ His great ambition and gullibility of the witches predictions are two of the biggest factors of his downfall;however, Lady Macbeth was probably the biggest influence in the whole tragedy.
After he kills Duncan, Macbeth carries all the guilt, and is too shaken by shame to continue, while Lady Macbeth either feels no guilt, or represses it, because she is able to continue the deed and frame Duncan’s guards.
Fear, this moves us to do many things no matter if they are against or for our morals. In the play The Tragedy of Macbeth it was fear that was the main deciding factor that themed throughout this play. This can be proved by the other murders that happened after King Duncan's. These murders were committed, because Macbeth was scared of being caught and having to serve justice for the crimes he had committed. And as for Lady Macbeth, she washes her hands all the time trying to get the blood that is no longer on her hands off and sleepwalking, all of what she does is out of her own fear.
The way one shows emotions on the outside is very different from what they hide on the inside. Individuals might change to fit in, but others will pretend to be something they are not. While attempting to act as someone else reality will eventually show up either way one considers to go. Macbeth is visited by three witches that project images and as time goes on the images become a reality.
Guilt is a very strong and uncomfortable feeling that often results from one’s own actions. This strong emotion is one of the theme ideas in William Shakespeare, “Macbeth”. Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth feel guilt, but they react in different ways. Guilt hardens Macbeth, but cause Lady Macbeth to commit suicide. As Macbeth shrives to success guilt overcome’s Macbeth where he can no longer think straight. Initially Macbeth planned was to kill Duncan but it wasn’t enough he also had to kill Banquo and Macduff’s family. On the other hand Lady Macbeth had to call upon the weird sister to unsexed her so she had no true feeling towards anything as if she was a man. However, the true guilt of the murder
"Macbeth" is a tragic play that was written by William Shakespeare in the early 1600’s. It revolved around the character Macbeth and his urge to become king of Scotland. Macbeth had to do anything possible to become the king including murder, lying, and deception. However, Macbeth committed these evil deeds due to some influential people in his life. Between Macbeth’s wife persuading him to do anything to become king and the witches prophesying over him causes Macbeth to try and bury the past and control the future.
Macbeth’s tragic flaw is his ambition and it consequentially leads to his downfall and ultimate demise. Macbeth is a tragic hero who is introduced in the the play as being well-liked and respected by the general and the people. He brings his death upon himself from this tragic flaw. His strengths turn into his weaknesses and his ambition drives him to the edge and sets himself up for his tragic death.
A Shakespearean tragic hero starts out as a noble person; a great exceptional being who stands out. A tragic hero has a tragic flaw of an exaggerated trait that leads to their downfall and eventually to death. William Shakespeare often made his main characters tragic heroes in his plays. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the role of the tragic hero is given to the main character: Macbeth. This is because he starts off as a loyal and well liked man in the beginning, but has a tragic flaw of ambition which ultimately leads to his downfall.
Underline the reason (topic sentence) in each body paragraph. Is the reason clearly connected to the overarching argument? If not, how might the writer address this?
In life, there are two types of people: those who do the right thing and those who don’t. In the play Macbeth, by Shakespeare, the main character Macbeth is given a prophecy by three witches that says he will become king; however, there is no descending line of kings of his own blood. With the knowledge of the Witches’ prophecy, Macbeth’s ambition, and manipulation from his wife, Lady Macbeth, Macbeth is quickly dragged into a never-ending, bloody murder rampage to obtain the crown and get rid of those who stand in the way of obtaining it as well. Macbeth constantly battles with his moral dilemmas; however, he easily falls victim to influences that go against his morals. Influences on major characters emphasize how easily one’s decision making can be negatively affected, resulting in one going against his or her morals/integrity.
The “Tragedy of Macbeth” by William Shakespeare tells a tale of deceit, murder, and ambition, beginning with a cutthroat rise to power, followed by calamitous downfall. At the start of the play, Macbeth is a brave and loyal captain in King Duncan’s army, but after three witches prophesize that he himself will become the king of Scotland, and that those born of a friend, Banquo, will be king after him, Macbeth is overtaken by ambition and gluttony. Instigated by his wife and his own lust for power, he murders Duncan, assumes the throne, and subsequently sends mercenaries to kill Banquo’s sons. While awaiting battle, Macbeth addresses the death of his wife in Act V, scene 5. Throughout the
Laurence Sterne once wrote, “No body, but he who has felt it, can conceive what a plaguing thing it is to have a man’s mind torn asunder by two projects of equal strength, both obstinately pulling in a contrary direction at the same time.” This passage embodies one of the over arching themes of Macbeth. The character Macbeth, in Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, could easily identify with this passage due to the fact that he is pulled in opposite directions by both his desire to do what is right and his desire for power.
In 3 scene 5 of Macbeth, the witches and Hecate meet and Talk about what Hecate will do in order to make the prophecies come true. Hecate says, “And I, the mistress of your charms,The close contriver of all harms, Was never call'd to bear my part, Or show the glory of our art?”(iii.v.6-8) The quote from the beginning of Hecate's monologue shows that she Controls the witches supernatural abilities and is their boss. Throughout the play the witches have shaped Macbeth's fate with supernatural abilities they posses. These abilities help shape the plot of the story by leading Macbeth to go crazy on his power thirsty tyrant.
A Tragic Hero is a common figure in many of Shakespeare’s works. A Tragic Hero is usually a figure of royalty, fame or greatness. This person is predominately good, but falls from prominence due to personality flaws that eventually lead to self-destruction.