It does not just make meeting new people difficult, but also takes a lot longer to trust someone and to share information with them. People who are bashful are so worried about what people think of them. As a result, “their thoughts and strength are limited to a very small circle of people; they are in fact limited by their own thoughts and emotions” (Jonne 259). Shy people constantly think negatively and that others are always slighting them, insulting them, or attacking them in some ways. Due to that point of view, they decide to abstain interacting with people.
In the quote she states, “You are too full of the milk of human kindness to strike aggressively at your first opportunity. You want to be powerful, and you don't lack ambition, but you don’t have the mean streak that these things call for.” Lady Macbeth embeds a fear into Macbeth’s soul, that she can persuade him into doing almost anything. Lady Macbeths constant persuasion leads Macbeth into the idea of killing the king so he can become king himself. He must get his hands dirty and kill the one he loves in order to be loved by many. “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And
In Act 1 Scene 1, when Kent asks Gloucester if Edmund is his Gloucester’s son, he replies “his breeding hath been at my charge” (1.1.9) yet Gloucester “blushed to acknowledge [Edmund]” (1.1.10). This implies that while Edmund is technically his son, because Edmund is illegitimate Gloucester has been embarrassed to claim him as his own. Gloucester knows that conceiving an illegitimate son reflects poorly on him, and being a bastard reflects even worse on Edmund. However, Gloucester admits that he loves Edmund just as much as his legitimate son. After the audience becomes aware of this, and Edmund’s duplicitous plotting, the audience loses all sympathy for the main antagonist of the subplot in King Lear.
People do not want to admit when they are defeated, just like Macbeth in this scene. The subject matter in Macbeth seems to be the desire to be great at any expense, and the panicky world that one can create for them when they try to achieve greatness at all costs. Denial is present as well as a lack of regard for anyone but Macbeth and his desires. Wives and sons are killed just to avoid something that is not certain. Only at the end do the witches’ predictions come true with the defeat of Macbeth.
“I am in blood / Stepp’d in so far, that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o’er.” (3.4.136-138) In this quote, Macbeth is telling himself that because he has stepped into evil so deeply, it will be hard to go back to morallity because he will never be able to rid of this guilt brought onto him. He begins to feel so remorseful, that he starts hallucinating and realizing that he has done such treacherous deeds. Even though he can still see how his actions are terrible, as the play develops, he begins to inch deeper and deeper into his own destruction of innocence. Macbeth had always felt threatened by Macduff because Macduff knew what a traitor he really was. Therefore, he had wanted to plot to end Macduff’s life as to not pose a threat on his reign any longer.
In Act 1 Scene 7 Macbeth says, “I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself And falls on th’other” In this soliloquy, Macbeth admits that his only reason for committing murder is ambition. The ambition presented him with negative characteristics such as greed, intolerance, ruthlessness and an unhealthy drive for power. In addition, it blocked out his respect for others and his compassion. Earlier in his soliloquy, Macbeth also uses foreshadowing as he declares, “Bloody instructions which, being taught, return To plague th’inventor” Here, Macbeth explained his deeds will eventually come back to haunt him. Earlier in the soliloquy ,he uses dark imagery, in phrases such as “Deep damnation” a “Poisoned Chalice” and “Bloody Instructions”.
Iago became furious since he believed he would make a better lieutenant than Cassio. Also, at the same time, Roderigo wanted revenge on Othello for “stealing” Desdemona from him. Iago was able to manipulate Roderigo and convinced Roderigo to help him. Since Othello is preoccupied with a potential war with the Turks, he can be easily distracted and fooled. To add on to that, Desdemona, Othello’s wife, continuously pleaded for her husband to trust her, but he never fully did.
He says “why do I yield to that suggestion, whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, and make my seated heart knock at my ribs.” He is revolted by his actions, and still can’t believe what he has done. Even the thought of King Duncan’s death, makes his hair stand on end and makes his heart pound. After Macbeth is crowned King, he is determined to keep the throne, and keep his reputation clean. He clearly regretted slaughtering King Duncan, displayed in the quote “to know my deed t’were best not know myself,” but once he got crowned King, he needed to make sure that no one
No one to blame but Macbeth Decisions can be impacted by a number of factors; but in the end we have to be the ones to take responsibility for our actions. This is demonstrated when we see Macbeth transform from a brave soldier to a power-hungry murderer, feared by all his subjects. Macbeth is the one to blame for his own descent into cruelty and murder because he let his ambition, arrogance and greed take over his mind. While some may claim that Macbeth is to blame for his actions, others argue that it is the force of the supernatural that leads to his demise. Early on the witches reveal prophecies to Macbeth suggesting his rise to power.
But when he was told that he would become king, he started to have carnivorous thoughts like becoming the king quicker than waiting, like maybe murdering the king for his title and blaming it on somebody else. “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other.” Basically he was about to back out, he told Lady Macbeth he wasn’t going to go through with it, because Duncan made him Thane of Cawdor which was great of him, and he owed him lots. He also was getting praise, and he didn’t want to give that up just to murder somebody else. “ Which does happen, but then he started thinking if he gets