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Examples Of Apparition In Macbeth

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Supernatural means manifestation or events considered to be of supernatural origin, such as ghost (Oxford Dictionary). There are many example of the supernatural-ghosts, apparitions, visions, etc… Many people believe in ghosts. These people believe in what a ghost says and it scares them because they think it is real. Other people do not believe in ghosts and certainly not in what it might say. Ghost are what the Devil uses to incriminate our minds. In Macbeth, the Three Witches bring up three apparitions that are meant to convince Macbeth to make bad choices. Macbeth is asking the Three Witches about his future as a King. The first apparition they show him is an armed head which was a warning to him. He told Macbeth that he should beware of Macduff. The apparition showed Macbeth he should be afraid of Macduff. Macbeth was so terrified that he went to attack his castle and sent a murderer to kill his sons. Macbeth thinks that Macduff was a traitor and had never been loyal to him. Macduff wanted to kill him, so he will not do any harm to the country (Shakespeare 63). …show more content…

He is being tested and is really trying to figure things out. The second apparition the Three Witches showed him was a child with a bloody face who came to him saying that he should beware of Macduff. That is very scary and I would have been terrified. Macbeth is getting all kind of signs in Act 4 which makes him doubt about killing Duncan. This bloody child gave him lots of confidence. He is told to be bold and fearless. He does not have to worry about Macduff and his tactics. Macbeth gets a lot of boldness. Any man that is born of a woman should be no threat to him. Macbeth gets hope and power that he will not be harmed and nobody will come near him. They are playing with his thoughts about him being untouchable (Shakespeare

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Macbeth performs this act for two reasons, the first of which is to enact revenge towards Macduff, who has left to join an army who is against Macbeth’s regime. The second of which is to discourage anyone else who may want to desert him. He says in Act 4, Scene 1 that he will have the Macduff castle sized and his family killed to set an example for anyone, “That trace him in his line.” In a sense Macduff betrayed his own family by fleeing to seek help for Macbeth’s downfall. His family were the ones who were eventually punished for Macduff’s betrayal.

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In act 4 scene 1 where the witches reveal the desires of Macbeth he reacts to the apparitions through diction and dialogue. Shakespeare uses diction after each of the three apparitions to show Macbeth’s feelings. After the first apparition Shakespeare uses a relieved, confident, and not fully content diction to ultimately show how Macbeth feels after each apparition. Macbeth feels relieved when he is given a warning from the witches because it confirms his prior thoughts and beliefs about Macduff. Macbeth says to the witch, “Thou hast harped my fear aright.”

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He believes that he can rule as a king however he wants and that no one will be able to replace him. Macbeth feels comforted and releases some of the stress and nightmares he was previously having. His newly gained comfort gives Macbeth a false sense of security that leads to Macbeth’s poor preparation to resist the English troops. Thinking that he cannot be harmed, Macbeth does not take the necessary steps to protect Scotland and his life. When he finally encounters Macduff on the battlefield, he believes it will be an easy fight as he deems himself invincible, but he is slaughtered.

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3. Secondly, Macbeth displays severe hallucinations. He sees visions of ghosts and supernatural beings in the form of the Three Witches. He also experiences auditory hallucinations, hearing voices that he believes to be the ghosts of the people he has murdered.

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When Macbeth is told by the first vision that he needs to beware of Macduff, his fears are confirmed that Macduff is a threat. When Macbeth is told this, he decides to kill Macduff’s family (Mac IV.i.71-74). Just like the witches, the apparition does not force Macbeth to act upon what he has been told, but still steers Macbeth towards violent

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After each of these events, Macbeth’s sanity takes a hit and he begins to hallucinate

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However, she and Macbeth actually intend to kill Duncan later that night while he is sleeping. Lady Macbeth’s aura of kindness makes King Duncan feel safe and secure in their home. Second, Macbeth acts as if he had no clue that King Duncan was killed in his sleep when Macduff emerges from the King’s room from trying to wake him the following morning because Macduff had been ordered to come wake Duncan. “Macduff: Confusion now hath made

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During that time he was showing simple signs throughout the play, while he was in the location of Scotland in the 11th century. “It was also during this era that islamic medical and psychological texts first described different types of mental illness, including what we now refer to as schizophrenia,” ( (Vitelli 18). Schizophrenia comes from distorted thinking which Macbeth has also been thinking negatively, can't think properly or clearly. When has no trust in anyone, people are a threat to him and his throne. Which could be called tangential thinking that has people make every thought jump to conclusions.

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Thou shalt not live…” (IV. i. 81-83, 85-87). Despite of the second apparition telling Macbeth that no one born from a Woman can defeat him, Macbeth still is not completely certain and satisfied with its assurance. This is why, Macbeth says that he does not need to fear Macduff, but still needs to murder him to satisfy himself about the fact that Macbeth is undefeatable. Macbeth is guaranteed to be undefeatable, but Macbeth wants to leave no doubt and chances for him being defeated by Macduff.

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Without Macbeth realizing the minor fault in these prophecies, he starts to gradually become more ambitious and more determined to kill Duncan in order to become king quickly as possible. The witches advance the plot again later in the play when Macbeth demands answer of his fate. They show Macbeth three more prophecies spoken by apparition; a head wearing a battle helmet, a blood-covered child, and a child wearing a crown and carrying a tree. The witches show Macbeth the three apparitions who tell him, Beware Macduff; /

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As such, Macbeth is once again influenced by what the witches call upon. Three apparitions appear before Macbeth. The first apparition is his own severed head, confirming his fears about Macduff. In Act IV, Scene I, the apparitions say these words “Macbeth! Macbeth!

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Hail to you, You’ll be king one day!”(Shakespeare, 1985, pp. 30). Once he sees the idea of being king a possibility, he starts to take fate into his own hands; this way he knows the prophecies will come true (Moss & Wilson, 1997). Another example of this, is when the witches show Macbeth the three apparitions and provide him with a false sense of security (Shakespeare, 1985, pp. 138 & 140). Macbeth in reaction to this believed nothing could harm him and became careless with his rule ad king. He puts his defenses down and in the end it leads to his inevitable death, when Macduff beheads

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He was very confident and did not think he would fail. When the forest came to Macbeth’s castle, Malcolm’s army who camouflaged themselves with trees in order to give the appearance of forest attacked castle. In addition, Macbeth’s worry about dying affected his psychology and he became mad even he disregarded the sisters’ predictions. After the Three Witches have told the truth about his death, he did not believe. Finally, this is the reason of Macbeth’s death, because if they did not mislead Macbeth, he would not be too sure to feel completely

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Macduff went to England to find Malcolm, King Duncan’s son, who fled Scotland so he would not be killed like his father. Macbeth no longer considers Macduff loyal to him and becomes apprehensive. Macbeth consorts with the murderers again to kill Macduff’s family, “give to the edge o’ the sword his wife, babes, and all unfortunate souls that trace him in his line” (Act 4, Scene 1). When a messenger comes to deliver the news to Macduff, he becomes sad but Malcolm tells him “… Let grief convert to anger…” (Act 4, Scene 3).

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With every death, Macbeth has become more and more ruthless, he hasn’t even let it set in that he just ordered the murder of another of his friends. After this, Macbeth goes to see the witches demanding information, where he decides to murder Macduff until learning that he has fled to England. The second apparition tells Macbeth that no one borne of a woman can harm him, and Macbeths courage is spiked again, before he decides to murder Macduff's entire family. This is where Macbeth is officially at his worst, killing Macduff's entire family just because he

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