Themes Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde And Macbeth

From this decision arises obvious internal conflict- he has love for his king and has proved this in battle. However, his ambition is decidedly the prevailing emotion and he decides he must kill his king. The scene before the murder takes place Macbeth imagines a dagger before him. He says,

Mixed emotions run through Macbeth's mind as he tries to determine Duncan's fate. His uncertainty relating to this matter builds upon his guilt of the thought of betraying his friends trust.

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

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.

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.

As the main motivator to Macbeth’s actions, Lady Macbeth is a character whose ambition and greed lead her and her husband to their inevitable fate of death. Lady Macbeth’s relentlessness, as well as her longing for power, generate an emotion of endless pain and suffering

To begin with, Lady Macbeth is forcing Macbeth to kill Duncan so they can be King and Queen. Macbeth is not sure that he wants

Throughout Macbeth, things are never what they appear to be. Macbeth, similar to other works of Shakespeare, is a story of pain and tragedy. At the start, King Duncan has a brave and loyal Thane called Macbeth. After three witches prophesize that Macbeth is destined to become king himself, Macbeth is overwhelmed with ambition and greed. Reinforced by the prophecy and his wife’s encouragement, he takes the throne by murdering King Duncan. Eventually, Macbeth’s paranoia, and guilt lead him to conduct multiple murders to maintain his power. His trust in the witches results in his defeat and overthrow as he is murdered by those he has wronged. In this play Shakespeare uses language, conflict, and the supernatural to illustrate deception and the effects of self-deception.

Shakespeare is one of the most influential and famous playwrights of modern times. A major reason his work is loved by so many is because of his insightfulness into the human mind, and one of Shakespeare’s greatest works demonstrating this is Macbeth. This famous play is about nobleman and military man Macbeth and how his tragic choices lead to his inevitable demise. The first and most trying choice that Macbeth has to make is whether or not to kill Duncan, the king of Scotland. Macbeth has to make this decision while being pulled in different directions by two conflicting forces. The force pulling him away from murder is his loyalty and humanity towards Duncan. The other force pulling him towards murder is his loyalty towards Lady Macbeth

Despite his fearless character in battle, Macbeth is concerned by the prophecies of the Witches, and his thoughts remain confused, both before, during, and after his murder of King Duncan. When Duncan announces that he intends the kingdom to pass to his son Malcolm, Macbeth appears frustrated. When he is about to commit the murder, he undergoes terrible pangs of conscience. Macbeth is at his most human and considerate when his masculinity is ridiculed and degraded by his wife. However, Macbeth has resolved himself into a far more stereotypical villain and asserts his manliness over that of his wife. His ambition now begins to spur him toward further horrible deeds, and he starts to disregard and even to challenge fate. Nevertheless, the newfound resolve causes Macbeth to move onward.

    Macbeth's internal combination of ambition and passivity create his susceptibility to the witch's prophecies and allow him to commit murderous deeds, but his unwillingness to take action-and to do evil-create his internal conflict that ultimately leads to his downfall. Although Lady Macbeth tries to goad Macbeth into action, it is Macbeth's character flaw that causes him to take action.  At first Macbeth is unwilling to murder Duncan, citing his loyalty to Duncan

Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” Peaceful rest occurs when one has a sound mind, and disrupted sleeps occurs when an individual feels guilt or regret, and when there is something heavy on their conscience. This is in reference to act 2 scenes 1, when Macbeth “murders sleep, the innocent sleep.” This occurs because Macbeth has killed Duncan, therefore murdering the good sleep. Moreover the evil has prevailed. The good sleep “knits up the ravell’d sleeve of care” that nurtures one, however Macbeth cannot attain this, due to his evil deeds. Macbeth is aware of all his sins, such as the murder of Duncan, preventing him from effectively attaining sound sleep because his doubts and suspicions are overwhelming his mind. Macbeth’s "nature seems dead" because it's dark and quiet out, but as people fall asleep human nature seems dead, too, and then wicked dreams can take control. This quote occurs when Macbeth hallucinates, seeing a bloody dagger in the air, and then tells himself that it is the time of night for such a hallucination. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde sleep is an avenue for evil when Dr. Jekyll transforms into his evil self, aka Mr. Hyde. Duality is portrayed not only through his sleep, but also through his personality. Through Jekyll’s sleep, “the creature who crept into my house that night was, on Jekyll’s own confession, known by the name of Hyde.” Jekyll’s evil is only

The indecision and internal conflict in this play causes Macbeth and Lady Macbeth commit irrational actions and enter an intense state of paranoia. This emotional and physical state that the two characters struggle with is what eventually leads to their downfall. Macbeth’s main struggle is his indecision on weather or not he should kill the king. Macbeth’s main reason for wanting to kill Duncan was because he wanted to become king himself. In Laila Abdalla’s article about the roles of power in Macbeth she says, “Macbeth, I contend, illustrates that the kings competing notions of power are a formula for calamity.” Macbeth has several things to consider when thinking about killing Duncan such as thoughts of it coming back to haunt him, Macbeth is his host, and since he is noble many people would miss him. These three thoughts replay over and over in Macbeth’s head causing him to become a little crazy and have irrational thoughts.

When Macbeth tells his wife that the King was going to be staying with them, she tells Macbeth that he needs to kill King Duncan and take his rightful spot as king. Macbeth’s sense of right and wrong is now in conflict with his own ambition. This reflects how today, individual’s pride and selfishness, gets in the way of what they are trying to accomplish.

Macbeth, a once courageous warrior, consequently became a tyrant dictating over the people of Scotland. His tragic flaw, ambition, forces him to become power hungry leading to his decision to murder King Duncan. This sends the kingdom into an immediate spiral of unnatural events and eventually leads to an upset of political and social discombobulation. The severed link between King Duncan and God ultimately changes the kingdom of Scotland from a prosperous country into a kingdom ruled by fear. Macbeth, a thrilling tragedy, is more than a tragic play, but rather a story of ramifications caused by the severed link between God and King Duncan, which is shown through unnatural events, social upset, and political reign.