The Tragedy Of Macbeth By William Shakespeare

The play Macbeth is set around the rise and the fall of the protagonist, Macbeth. The audience perceives that there are a number of culprits that have caused his eventual down fall, such as Lady Macbeth, the three witches and Macbeth himself. We cannot ignore the thought that each of the factors has played a fairly notable role yet only one is truly responsible for setting off the tumultuous cycle of the play. Personally, when thinking over the causes and consequences I have come to a considered conclusion, that the witches have commenced the tragic fatal downfall of Macbeth. The supernatural invasion in Macbeth’s domestic life has ruptured the balance of nature and created chaos.

Growing ambition can lead people to have downfalls in life. When people get too eager there is always a consequence, being too greedy always comes with a catastrophe because it makes people do terrible things. For an example, Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Macbeth was told by the three witches that he would become king and that Banquo child will become the next heirs. He is so gullible that he decides to kill the king to make himself the king. As his evilness takes control of him he starts to kill Banquo’s kid and Macduff’s family while he turns power hungry for the position he starts to lose his wife and friends. Macduff wants to get revenge on Macbeth for killing his family therefore that is Macbeth’s downfall because of his desire to become king. The three effects for Macbeth’s ambition are paranoia, being inhumane, and being overconfident.

“He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must fall with the greatest loss.” Niccolo Machiavelli means to say is that when driven by blind ambition, one will go to the highest rank possible and the only thing left for one to do is to fall. In Shakespeare’s most bloody and gory play “Macbeth”, the late Shakespeare correctly exemplifies the fact that if one is ambitious one will have the greatest downfall, and will suffer consequences. Macbeth a mighty and ambitious warrior from the medieval times, manipulated by the peculiar sisters’ prophecy, leads Macbeth into thinking he has a chance to become king. Due to Macbeth’s blind ambition, he becomes a gruesome killer. Macbeth performs several slaughters in order to achieve the throne. Lady Macbeth, who is just as ambitious, worked side by side with Macbeth so she could become queen, and she too takes part in all the slaughters. After all these murders Macbeth and Lady Macbeth becomes crazy and starts feeling guilty and share a common goal. In the end due to all the horrific things Macbeth and his wife have done to other people, they all decide to take revenge on them, thus leading to their deaths. Therefore if one is blindly ambitious, one will face costs.

At the point when two individuals are in the same circumstance you can accept that their feelings or thoughts would be similar in nature. As it may, every individual has their own diverse characteristics which can be appeared in their emotions and activities to the occasion. This is clearly illustrated through Duncan 's murder in the story Macbeth between the two characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Their responses are shown through their initial reaction to the thought of murdering Duncan, immediately prior to the murder of Duncan, and immediately after the murder of Duncan.

Many famous philosophers including Plato and Aristotle have proposed that all matter and life are part of a strict religious hierarchy called the Great Chain of Being. The Chain starts with God on the top and progresses downward to angels, demons, celestial bodies, kings, nobles, men, wild animals, domesticated animals, trees, plants, and finally minerals. They theorized that when the Chain breaks, chaos follows. William Shakespeare uses the Great Chain of Being in many of his works, including The Tragedy of Macbeth where the disorder in the human world is mirrored through the chaos in the animal kingdom. Shakespeare uses animal imagery in Macbeth as dramatic irony to highlight and emphasize the severity of certain events in order to suggest that nature, unlike man, cannot be deceived by appearances.

In The Tragedy of Macbeth, William Shakespeare obsesses over the ideal of a good man becoming an evil tyrant. The play of Macbeth is based on Macbeth a man who had everything including a wife, home, power, and friends. Until he heard a prophecy that would change his life forever and disrupt his sanity and virtue. Logically speaking you think, how could one man lose everything including himself from one prophecy? We have to remember that the author is none other than Shakespeare and with him anything is possible especially three sisters with beards. This play is categorized as a tragedy as it also states in the title and this play is exactly what the title shows, the tragedy of Macbeth.

In William Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Macbeth, written in 1606, the nominal character Macbeth lets prophecies and ambition cloud his judgment, leading to the mass murder of many innocent people. Early on in the play, Macbeth is greeted by three witch sisters who prophecize that he will become Thane of Cawdor and, eventually, king of Scotland. Macbeth, with the aid of his wife Lady Macbeth, take matters into their own hands in order to ensure that the witches prophecies come true. Out of all of the female characters Shakespeare has created, Lady Macbeth stands out from all the rest with her ambition, will power, and malice. In order to level with, and really understand Lady Macbeth, one must observe as her character develops from the scheming and strong woman she is at the beginning of the play, to the weak and vulnerable woman she transforms into as the play progresses.

What makes a once “brave friend” (1.2.6) “something wicked”? (4.1.45) In Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Macbeth, the answer to this question is played out. At the beginning of the play, the main character, Macbeth, is deemed “valiant” (1.2.24) and “noble” (1.2.68); however, after his encounter with the witches, his dark side starts to bubble up. As such, the Weird Sisters symbolize the ubiquitous evil that is in the world and present the theme man’s susceptibility to temptation. While the witches do play an essential role in Macbeth’s demise; ultimately, it is his choice to act upon the sinful ways.

An analysis of how the play ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’, written between 1599 and 1606 by William Shakespeare, has been reinterpreted in the 2010 film ‘Macbeth’. The 2010 film successfully takes its own reading of Shakespeare 's play; by changing the setting, the director, Rupert Goold, effectively conveys many of the key themes and issues found in the original text. Whilst transforming some on the underlying meanings to correspond to the alternative readings contemporary audiences might take from Shakespeare 's Macbeth. The objective is to examine one scene from both play and film to deconstruct how this scene is reinterpreted in the film. The scene that will be analysed will be Act 4, scene 1 in the topic of Structure and Filmic Staging.

As humans we are attracted to tragedy in our everyday lives. For the horror, understanding and contemplation of human nature what else can offer a better summary than Shakespeare? In the play the Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare the story progresses through the vision of the protagonist, Macbeth. Throughout the story Macbeth aspires to obtain more power than his original position, as sergeant, provides. With many dastardly deeds he achieves the position of king, although he becomes a tyrant in the eyes of his people after they discover his wrongdoings. Readers experience the downfall of Macbeth’s morality at a slow but intriguing pace. Albeit, most would disagree that Macbeth was only a vessel of his own fate due to intervening characters throughout the play such as the witches and Lady Macbeth. When choosing who inspired this fate we have to acknowledge all actions which led to his own actions, therefore Macbeth’s demise was a response to every character portrayed throughout the play.

With the glory of the Elizabethan Era, the theme of the Renaissance period develops more individually by relating with personal emotions and desire. During the Renaissance period of English literature history, one of the most celebrated writers of the world and the brightest star in the history of literature, William Shakespeare, utilizes his ink to portray the complicity on of human through his works, with numerous of comedies and tragic dramas, using various story backgrounds, Shakespeare is able to catch the most unique gist of human beings. For example, In his drama The Tragedy of Macbeth, his love towards the beauty of humanity expressed through the multidimensional characters of Macbeth. By illustrating the transformation of Macbeth 's change in mind, from a loyal servant of the King Ducan, changes to a pathetic suspicious usurper, and finally fell as a betrayer with no fame or power, Shakespeare reflects directly to the truth of humanity: beautifully diverse, unsteadily controversial, and fatally dangerous.

William Shakespeare effectively explores and follows the framework of the tragedy, Macbeth; a tale of systematic suffering, which foreshadows and imminently leads to the death of a great man. Essentially, it is Macbeth’s flaw – his growing ambition – which leads to these harsh repercussions. Shakespeare demonstrates his tragedy, through Aristotle’s elements and definition of tragedy, which ultimately concerns the reversal of good fortune to bad. In “Macbeth”, ambition conspires with supernatural forces to commit evil deeds and the themes of the supernatural, evil and ambition, all contribute to tragedy. The three themes are accordingly depicted by the Witches, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth himself – the trio concocting the recipe for the downfall of a great man.

Tragic plays involve the fall of one or more characters, specifically the main character, and causes a viewer to feel sorrow, pity, or similar feelings for them. Of Antigone and Macbeth, Macbeth is the more tragic of the two because Macbeth overall includes more tragic events and creates a greater atmosphere of pity and sorrow, especially in the introduction and middle of the plays, than Antigone features.

In William Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Macbeth, the Death of King Duncan of Scotland occurred at Thane Macbeth’s castle, Inverness, at around four in the morning in about the year 1300. Before the murder, Macbeth imagined seeing a bloody dagger floating before him, making it appear as if he was not totally sane. The reason the murder happened was because Macbeth had met three witches in the woods that prophesized to him that he would become king of Scotland. Afterwards, Macbeth sent a letter home to his wife to tell her all about it. She then decided that she would have Macbeth kill Duncan. When Macbeth arrived home he then told his Lady Macbeth that Duncan was coming to visit their castle in the following days. In return she revealed to him her plan, while Duncan was sleeping she would drug his guards and Macbeth would take their daggers, stab Duncan to death, then return the daggers, blaming the whole thing on the guards. Macbeth was appalled at her idea and wanted nothing to do with it, but Lady Macbeth was very persuasive and eventually convinced Macbeth that it was what was needed to be done.

Great writers create great characters. In “The Tragedy of Macbeth” and “Hamlet” William Shakespeare describes his female characters without virtue. In “The Tragedy of Macbeth” Lady Macbeth forces her husband to do unthinkable things for her own personal gain therefore, showing that Lady Macbeth has no honor or virtue. In “Hamlet”, the Queen, Gertrude, does things without thinking about her son and how it will affect him and Hamlet’s lover, Ophelia, kills herself therefore showing that neither of them have virtue. Shakespeare uses characterization to describe how Gertrude, Ophelia, and Lady Macbeth are not virtuous.