He had a massive inner conflict between his secret fears and desire for power, and they were all presented in his soliloquy in Act 1, scene 7. One of fears is evident when Macbeth stated, ‘Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return/To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice’ (1.7. 9-10) He realized that by killing Duncan, there were consequences. If he killed the king, he himself might be killed, and was afraid of the revenge of the fate. Because of these fears, Macbeth became agitated and decided to hold back on his previous thought of assassinating Duncan.
Richard is bitter, deformed, not loved, and sickened by peace, so he will set his brothers up for their death and rise up. Richard misleads Clarence first to get him placed in prison because his plan is to get rid of the king before Clarence has to die. It is amazing that it is obvious that Richard is the
Now in the play, Macbeth starts off as a loyal, courageous, stereotypical, drone like war hero but once a group of witches put this idea in his mind that he could become king, he starts spiraling downhill. For days he pondered whether to let nature take its course and let fate decide, or intervene and take matters into his own hands. He kills the King, takes the throne, but becomes paranoid and belligerent. Soon after this change, a rebellion forms who goes after him and kills him. William Shakespeare’s Macbeth showcases how one’s desires can change him, bring out the true primal instincts in a man; and as the play progresses, this change becomes quite evident.
King Claudius rules over his people in a possessive and controlling manner. For example, when Hamlet is about to kill King Claudius as an act of revenge, he finds Claudius on his knees praying, yet he still wants to keep, “My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen” (III.3.59). His reference to a “crown” is an archetype for power, which represents Claudius’ controlling ways. In addition, the repetition of the pronoun “my” and “mine” show his possessiveness of not only the “crown,” but of those who are close to him, including his “queen”. The wealthy farm owners take control and push away anything that’s in their way.
Also, it’s being very selfish by asking Victor for more favours, after Victor had already given life to it. Finally, throughout the story, it constantly seeks revenge on its creator, Victor, even though it knows that that means to neglect integrity. It is dangerous and unethical to sympathize with the creature as it is dangerous, forceful and almost always infuriated with revenge. Throughout the novel, the creature
‘why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature.’ This quote tells us that Macbeth has thought up the idea of killing the king and that his ambition is growing so much it is beginning to take over his morals, and is clouding his judgment. Again Shakespeare uses the natural imagery because killing the king is the most unnatural thing you can do as he is omnipotent and it is like killing God, this shows that although Macbeth knows he is thinking of the most unnatural deed on earth he is still contemplating it as his ambition is so strong. This has a worrying effect on the audience as, if Macbeth is so easily manipulated by one thought or idea what is he capable of with other influences. This quote could also illustrate that Macbeth is weak and absent minded as he does not think about what he is doing or about what he is considering
Towards the beginning of the play Macbeth is portrayed as power hungry. When Macbeth finds out King Duncan has declared Malcolm as the new king he becomes very jealous and confused. Leading him to start having thoughts towards killing Duncan and taking the throne for himself. It was considered a sin against god for anyone to try and alter their position in life. Macbeth is determined to become king.
Thus, a Gothic tradition, which continually developed and widely affected, came into being. 1. Gothic novels: The historical origin The word “Gothic” firstly came from the name of the Gothic tribe in the teutones. The teutones, which originally lived in the northern Europe, finally defeated the powerful empire of west Rome in the migrating course during several centuries. After more than 1000 years of the perdition of the west Rome empire, a Italian named Vasari(1511-1574)found the word “gothic” in the dust of history in order to refer to a kind of medieval architectural style which is disliked by the Renaissance thinkers.
These acts of cruelty include the ambush of Banquo, the slaughtering of Lady Macduff and her children, and the poorly treated servants. The foul desire of being king leads Macbeth to take cruel action, no matter the circumstances “Fleance his son, that keeps him company/ Whose absence is no less material to me/ Than is his father’s, must embrace the fate/ Of that dark hour” (3.1.135-138). In other words, Macbeth does not take any chances of failing what he plans to do, even if family is by Banquo’s side. The foul desire of Macbeth being king and staying king leads him to be a murderer once again by taking out future competition in Banquo. According to a Shakespeare scholar, “Like Macbeth, Banquo knows that there were two key parts to the unearthly revelation: first, that Macbeth will become king, and second, that Banquo will
(www.dictionary.com) It was apparent that Hamlet did indeed have an identity crisis because of his conflicting internal and external experiences and the pressures and expectations from those in the Royal Court of Denmark. He endures conflicting internal and external experiences such as the ghost of his father requesting him to exact revenge on Claudius and in doing so contradict all of the morals he has formed. Pressures to accept the dubious marriage of his mother to his uncle, pressure to accept Claudius as the new king and expectations from the court to be emotionally strong in spite of his father's demise and from the ghost of his father to avenge his death by killing Claudius all challenge Hamlet's strength of self. His anxiety is caused as a result of these external pressures.Hamlet lives in a country of different worlds. At the time, Denmark was in a state of transition between three metaphysical worlds; the heroic world, where a man's honour was foremost, killing was not accepted but expected, might was power, the Machiavellian world, an amoral world where politics and mind games were employed ruthlessly, the ends justified the