Role Of Fear In Macbeth

What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?” [Act V, S I, L 32-35] Lady Macbeth is trying to get rid of the blood she thinks she sees on her hands. Also she talks about going to hell for what she has done. Lady Macbeth was persuading Macbeth to murder Duncan but as the story continues she has become smaller figure and Macbeth has became a bigger figure and thrived, Macbeth isn't weakened for what he has committed or done as Lady Macbeth feels. As she is being driven mad and over the edge with the guilt she feels, her part becomes less and less to the point where she kills herself hoping to end the suffering stress on her mind. "

up being driven mad by the guilt and she ends up taking her own life

After Macbeth murdered King Duncan, paranoia quietly started creeping in. He thought that he “heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep” - the innocent sleep” directly following the deed(2:2:53-56). As his paranoia increases, Macbeth convinces himself that being King “is nothing, but to be safely thus. . .[His] fears in Banquo stick deep, and in his royalty of nature reigns that which would be feared;” subsequently, Macbeth has revealed

Fear is one of the oldest,strongest, most uncontrollable and an unavoidable feelings. It can: make you sweat, make you cry, shake or even lose your appetite for food. It can also cause people to do stupid things that they never would do in ordinary circumstances. This can be seen in many different aspects of life. One place it can be seen is literature. It can also be seen in movies and t.v. The last place fear is shown is real life.

In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth the reader watches as Macbeth changes gradually as the play endures. He are transforms from a loyal person with a loving and loyal disposition with other people, into a tyrants who are willing to kill in order to keep himself on the throne. He is tormented with fear, regret, and guilt. When someone does something they know is wrong it causes them to fall prey to their own emotions.

“Underlying the quest for power is fear, and the desire for power is to eliminate fear. The more fearful a person is the more control over their environment they believe they need to feel safe” (Robert Evans Wilson Jr.). Throughout literature and modern history, fear is used as a scapegoat for the desire of power. The acquired power acts as a safety blanket for one’s deep, internal anxieties. Shakespeare demonstrates how fear becomes a driving factor in a person’s behavior. Macbeth’s nature is greatly altered after the death of King Duncan provokes his desire to become king. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies explains how the fear of the unknown is the source of survival instinct in everyone. The murders of Simon and Piggy bring

In Macbeth they show terror of how people fear Macbeth. In act 2 the characters displays terror when Macbeth kills Duncan inside of his castle. In reality people are scared to go out because of the way of one person treat them and how stories on the news show what people do to themselves because of bullying. In act 3 the characters are afraid of Macbeth because he killed Macduff’s family. In real life people turn on the people they know

EXAMPLE 1: Macbeth’s fear of the unknown and of the future has driven him to seek certainty as his one objective.

The definition of paranoia is a mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution, unwarranted jealousy, or exaggerated self-importance, typically elaborated into an organized system. The tragic play Macbeth, is written by William Shakespeare, and portrays the murders committed by a power hungry warrior. The three witches inform Macbeth that if Duncan dies then he will become King. Lady Macbeth convinces her husband, Macbeth, to kill the king, Duncan, for his throne. This starts out as one killing, but then more become inevitable, and Macbeth begins to feel unbearable guilt for the killings. The deaths of Duncan, Banquo, and Macduff’s family are significant to the tragedy as Macbeth’s mental state progressively declines to a state of paranoia.

These fear-driven acts “in both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth [reveal] the ambition which moves to rash deeds” (Campbell 127). Macbeth shows his fear last when Malcolm's army is moving to his castle (5.5.51) revealing “that despair which is the final stage of fear and which manifests itself as fury” (133). Macbeth is not fighting like a man but “fights irrationally ... with the courage of an animal” (133) as his mental deterioration has turned him into a beast. All of Macbeth’s fear has come from the guilt he had from killing all of the people he

Fear is an emotion that makes people do things that they would not normally do, for better or for worse. People tend to let their emotions guide their actions as-well-as control their lives. Fear does two things, it can negatively impact people or it can positively

Living in Fear Foretold by the witches he is to be king, Macbeth is triggered by Lady Macbeth’s derisive comment: When you durst do it, then you were a man (1 vii 54). Using her sly persuasion Lady Macbeth forces her husband into doing the deed, and suggests that only once he’s completed the deed will he be a real man. Traumatised by killing King Duncan, he becomes extremely anxious about the near future and is shaken by the thought of committing the unspeakable act, betraying the belief of the divine right of kings. Through committing the act of immorality Macbeth attains the role of King further indulging in the pleasures he ultimately desires. After employing assassins to kill Banquo, in the hope this will make his position more secure,

As a matter of fact they begin the play with two of them, lady and Macbeth that Macbeth is too kind and soft, and in her thoughts of worry she has a soliloquy that states, "Yet do I fear thy nature, It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness"(1.3.3-4). Lady, feels that Macbeth is too king fulfill the deed of killing Duncan, and with this kind hearted personality he will crack under pressure, destroying their chance to hierarchy. Although after this occurs, Macbeth actually becomes quite the opposite of what he was. Macbeth went on a killing spree murdering anyone who he thought could affect his kingship. Another example of his brash ruthless personality was near the end when he was about to fight Macduff, Malcolm and their army, he states something to his soldiers that depicts his loss of kindness. "Go, prick thy face and over-red thy fear, Thou lily-livered boy. What soldiers, patch? Death of thy soul! Those linen cheeks of thine Are counselors to fear. What soldiers, whey-face?"(5.3.16-19) Macbeth is frustrated at his cowardly soldier. He has displayed an act of rude nature making it evident that Macbeth is ruthless.Which affected much more than his kind nature, it resulted in the King that the people of Scotland

Macbeth showed his fear of people when they do not even pose a threat when he said “Then live, Macduff. What need I fear of thee? But yet I’ll make assurance double sure, And take a bond of fate. Thou shalt not live, That I may pale-hearted fear it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder” (4.1.104-108).

Macbeth by William Shakespeare starts out in a civil war placed in 11th century Scotland. Macbeth is one of the many soldiers bravely fighting in the war, who is seen as a honourable man. This quickly changes when the witches announce the prophecy that he will become king. Lady Macbeth becomes aware of the prophecy and forces Macbeth to murder King Duncan to receive the title. Macbeth soon becomes insane and the murderous actions begins.