Who is the saddest person in the play? Who suffers the most? Whose tragedy is it? Throughout the play Macbeth , there are many characters who display large amounts of unhappiness. There is a debate to who is really the saddest, one seems to stand out above all the character Macbeth. Although the story portrays him as being a great man, he is doing very well, for himself forcing his way into kingship and is even told of supposed immortality. While he definitely does suffer the most, and it is Macbeths tragedy. A man of great pride with one mistake leading down the path of tragedy, suffering from the guilt towering over him. Throughout the play of Macbeth it all seems to be getting worse for Macbeth as it seems to progress, he loses all which matters to him. He loses his wife, his friends, everyone close to him, he starts to lose peoples respect and then starts to realise that his seed will never become kings . Lady Macbeth, the love of his life starts to go mad, sleep walks and eventually dies, through the cause of Macbeth’s actions. Macbeth orders the killing …show more content…
Macbeth in his soliloquy thinks of many different reasons as to why he should not murder his king. For example as his host, he should “against his murderer shut the door” (Act I, Scene VII, Line XIV). Although he is persuaded by his wife through her threatening manhood. He suffers through this stage of the play as he does not want to come across as a coward towards his wife . He is fairly ambitious and is someone who wants to please his wife. His guilt is clearly shown when he says, “Methought, I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more’ Macbeth does murder sleep” (Act II, Scene II, Line XLII). This seems to affect Macbeth a lot because he is faced with all of the guilt he is being overcome by. Causing him to become more blood thirsty and have his reputation severed a point where fear is the only reason he has any
“For brave Macbeth – well he deserves that name – disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel, which smoked with bloody execution, like valor’s minion carved out his passage till he faced the slave; which nev’r shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, till he unseamed him from the nave to th’ chops, and fixed his head upon our battlements” (Act 1, Scene 2). His conscience in the beginning of the tragedy is clear and serene. This all ends when he decides to murder King Duncan. Macbeth starts to feel consumed with his guilty conscience, which makes him hallucinate. “Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?
All the same, Macbeth was willing to do whatever it took to be king, even if it meant the destruction of himself. Additionally, he had an external conflict with Lady Macbeth. She questions, “Will you take the crown you want so badly, or will you live as a coward…” (1.7.41-43). This ambition for power obviously affected everyone in the play, practically wrecking this marriage as time went on.
In the beginning of the story, he is a brave, courageous person who people respect, but the witches’ first predictions influence him in a negative way that lead him to kill King Duncan. Macbeth feels guilty before he even commits the crime because of his wife. “I have given suck, and know / How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me; / I would, while it was smiling in my face, / Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums / and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you / Have done to this.” (1.7.55-60). Lady Macbeth makes Macbeth feel guilty by saying that she would willingly kill a baby for him if the action would help in any way.
At this point in the play, Macbeth has decided to kill the king of Scotland. In Act 2 Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, he utilizes pathos and dark, liquid imagery to create a mood in the reader similar to that of Macbeth’s emotions. As stated earlier, Macbeth is prepared to kill his king--an act he originally didn’t want to commit. Since his meeting with the Witches, Lady Macbeth has worked her way into Macbeth’s mind. She has now completely convinced him that he wants to be king, this is an example of the reliance on someone else’s thoughts.
He compromises his honor and negates moral responsibility to attain power and position which results in his tragic end. From the beginning, Macbeth was faced with choices and he continuously kept on making bad ones. The witches vision for the future of him becoming king together with his ambition drove Macbeth to commit a crime, make a choice that would then continue to haunt him forever. With significant influence from Lady Macbeth, he decided to take action and murder King Duncan. We see him consider his choice to kill Duncan in soliloquy in Act 1, Scene 7 “If it were done”.
Once he arrived at their home, the King planned to visit Macbeth due to his promotion to Thane Of Cawdor. Despite Macbeth being the one who proposed the idea to kill the King in the first place, he states that he doesn't want to be involved with killing the King. “We will proceed no further in this business. He hath honored me of late, and I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people, Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon. ”(Lines 32-35, Act 1, Scene 7)( Endo Education Research Director & Jago HMH Author and Associate Director, 2021).
He was feeling shamed,but he had no choise. Everytime Macbeth was thinking that he would stop,something , oh no,no, why something?!His Quenn,his god,and officially his wife was convencing him that he had to kill the king:"thee has't to murd'r that gent!be stout!we wilt ear m're pow'r togeth'r mine own l'rd!us,we,togeth'r. we des'rve this!". Macbeth had no choise..
Yes we know he is mainly the victim of this tragic play. The Three Witches’ prophecy tempts him with greed for power, and Lady Macbeth’s use of shrewd manipulation finally sets him off on a killing spree, well kind of. From all the so-called support from Lady Macbeth and the Three Witches, he is pushed further to betray those close to him, such as King Duncan, “The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be / Which the eye fears when it is done, to see.” And this personified expression says how Macbeth even though he will feel the guilt from killing his loyal friend, he still persists to show kindness and support until his friend’s final breath.
The Tragedy of Macbeth includes characters of all purposes and personalities which shows how broad the acts of one person can affect so many. Shakespeare sets up Macbeth as a character of loyalty, however, Macbeth quickly turns into a person so hungry to be powerful, that he is blind to his own
In act one scene 7, Macbeth doubts if he should kill the king; however, his wife, Lady Macbeth, manipulates him into proceeding. It might be difficult for Macbeth, the renowned warrior, to hear his wife accusing him of cowardice. Therefore, under Lady Macbeth’s influence, as she questions his manhood, he commences the murder in order to prove to her that he is not a “coward.” This is important to note because his soliloquy shows his determination to proceed.
He chose to kill Duncan when speaking to his wife “I am settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show. False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” (1.7.79-82) He has decided not only to kill his king, but to pretend that he is innocent, and take his throne, It is his decision, not Lady Macbeth’s.
First of all, Macbeth feels guilt throughout the play when he kills the king. After when Macbeth kills the king, he gets very emotional and
The play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, is seen as one of Shakespeare 's greatest tragedies. It deals with a man named Macbeth, who is introduced as a brave, strong war hero. He has the respect of the king and his peers. The predictions of three witches that Macbeth will become king begin Macbeth 's descent into his own downfall. The play is set in Scotland, written for King James I.
Although he has second thoughts about killing Duncan, Macbeth chooses to go through with it. Lady Macbeth’s influence is a huge part of his choice, but he still is not under anyone’s control. It is his free will that helps him decide to speed up his fate of becoming king. When he murders Duncan, I feel that this is when Macbeth unleashes the monster in him.
Macbeth the Embodiment of Death Out of all the tragedies in play history, none is more tragic then Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Throughout the play, the leading character Macbeth could truly be viewed as the cloaked figure that is death. He causes everyone’s demise in the play, even his own.