He wanted to rule his country, a perfectly sane and moral goal. His intentions went sour throughout his journey, however, when he came to the conclusion that in order to control the kingdom, he must kill Duncan, then Banquo along with Fleance, and finally the Macduff family. One would think, if reading just the facts of these murderous plans, that Macbeth is pure of evil intentions and destructive measures. However,
This is reinforced by his rejection of imagery through the us use of personification, “whose horrific image doth unfix his hair” which shows Macbeth is a man who is sensible enough to dismiss the prophecy, however, he has also thought about what he can do to become King. Shakespeare has given us a shaded image of Macbeth, no longer is he just a noble, obedient soldier of Duncan, but he is a man who is attracted to power, with great ambitions.
One of the organizing themes of Macbeth is the theme of manliness: the word and its cognates reverberate through the play. Where it is deeply affirmative for Hamlet to say of his father. "He was a man ....", in Macbeth Shakespeare exposes the ambiguities and the perils in a career premised upon "manliness." At the first of the play, Macbeth's "manly" actions in war are not contradictory to a general code of humaneness or "kind-ness" irrespective of gender: but as the play develops, his moral degeneration is dramatized as a perversion of a code of manly virtue, so that by the end he seems to have forfeited nearly all of his claims on the race itself. Lady Macbeth initiates this disjunction of "manly" from "humane" by calling Macbeth's manhood (in a narrowly sexual sense) into question: he responds by renouncing all humane considerations, and, when he learns that he cannot be killed by any man of woman born, this renunciation of human kinship and its moral constraints is complete.
Macbeth's demand foreshadows to his ability or inability to control a country by fear, while Banquo would have the "royalty of nature/ [... and] a wisdom that doth guide his valour/ To act in safety" (III.i.50-54). Macbeth, who was once loved by his people, is referred to as a tyrant by many of his subjects, because of his natural ambition for the throne. Banquo proves an accurate foil for Macbeth, because of his natural king-like abilities, and because of his uncontrolling characteristics. Maher 2 As well as Banquo, Malcolm proves as an appropriate contradiction or foil for Macbeth because of his humility and his natural ability to assume leadership. Malcolm knows how to compliment his people for the services done for him, as he says "This is the sergeant/
Scene 4 1. Macbeth says to the King, “... And our duties are to your throne and state, children and servants, which do but what they should by doing everything safe toward your love and honour.” He says that everybody should safeguard the king while Macbeth himself plans on murdering him. The character is a hypocrite and very clever. 2. The king is too trustworthy.
Knavery’s plain face is never seen til us’d. As this quote says to be a villain you have to be deceitful, cunning, and manipulative. These characteristics are all commonly associated with the concept of evil and are displayed in the play Othello by William Shakespeare and in the book The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. The villains in these two texts are both evil as they manipulate and harm other people in their lives who trust them and think of them as moral citizens and not as villains. In Othello Iago, Othello’s most trusted friend and ally, deceives and manipulates everyone in the play to bring about Othello’s downfall.
According to Duncan, the Thane of Cawdor was a man who had earned his Highnesses deepest respect. He is found out to have betrayed information to an opposing force, which lead to his execution. This event leads the king to state "There's no art/ To find the mind's construction in the face:/ He was a gentleman on whom I built/ An absolute trust"(Act IV, Scene I, ln 13-14). This quote sets up the whole theme for the play: you can not tell what a man is really thinking, only by looking at his outer appearance. Deception through false prophesies is also seen within this play.
This play goes to show the flaws and attributes of Macbeth’s character. In the play Macbeths says “My thought, whose murder is yet fantastical, shakes so my single state of man that function is smothered in surmise, and nothing is, but what Is not” (1.3 . 139- 142) . His thoughts are tending towards the murderer, he is hinting that things may not always as they seem. This quote shows the reader that Macbeth is thinking of others but he is
A Tragic Hero in one of Shakespears plays are noble men who have a great flaw and because of that flaw goes threw a downfall but in the end they learn a lesson. In the play of Macbeth, Macbeth is a tragic hero. Macbeth is a nobleman with many flaws. One of his most prominent flaws is his over ambition and that he was easy to manipulate. Macbeth was willing to do anything he could in order to be king.
Before the vicious acts and insanity jumps in, Macbeth expresses his moral dilemma and how he is extremely confused. He tries to persuade himself that it is unethical and how he probably shouldn’t go through with it yet, Lady Macbeth encourages him otherwise. Even when Macbeth hallucinates a dagger floating towards him, he still shows that he has a conscience and can tell the difference between right and wrong. “There is no such thing:/ It is the bloodied business which informs/ Thus to mine eyes.” Exaggerating how it is murder which he is about to commit that is the catalyst for his