Macbeth Power Essay

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Shakespeare presents Macbeth as a powerful person, but to what extent is he truly powerful? The play's writer made him a deeply complicated character showing an internal conflict between power-hungry ambitions and his mental ability to commit the actions to achieve his ambition. In the play of Macbeth, Shakespeare uses his character to portray the universal truth that dark desires to take more power will end up taking the power you already had. At the beginning of the play Macbeth is presented as a mighty warrior who leads his country to a victory over the traitor Macdonwald, at this point of the play he shows his great loyalty and respect to the kingdom he served we can see this in the quote ‘Till he unseamed him from the nave to the chops, And fixed his head upon our battlements’ the quote further presents his status as a great warrior and violent man who is not affected by the brutal killings he is …show more content…

The. The dagger further symbolizes a guide showing him what is to be done and leading him to commit this action. Shakespeare presents this idea in another part of the play where he is at an event when his mind conjures a bloody murder hallucination of a bloodied-up Banquo sitting on his seat causing him to be in a state of panic and fear making the guest see him as crazy and worried. This hallucination presents that his concision has still not fully accepted the fact that he has committed these actions, making him go into emotional

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