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Shakespeare's Macbeth And The Chain Of Being

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Munera alessa
Eng446
Dr. Samia AL-Shayban
Assignment 1
3 March 2016
Macbeth and the Chain of being The Chain of being a concept which organized the world into a hierarchical order., starts from him ends with non being . Each level of the hierarchical order has its own hierarchy , For example , there are seven order of angels, with archangels at the top and there is another hierarchy with the king at the top within the level of human. also within the level of family there is specific hierarchy , man on the top , woman just below ended with Serf. People in Shakespeare's time believed in this concept including Shakespeare himself . We can see this believe from many of his plays such as Hamlet and Macbeth, Both of them revolve around believing …show more content…

We can see this closeness and greatness relationship in the letter scene, when she gets a letter from her husband telling her about the witches' prophecies . He writes to her ;
”…This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou might’st not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant of what greatness is promised thee. Lay it to thy heart, and farewell.”(1.5.10-13).
This words tells us that Lady Macbeth means everything to her husband . Macbeth tells no body about prophecies but his wife , She is the first person knows about it but he requests to keep this news secret .He calls her ''my dearest'' we can see how much Macbeth loves her from this word.
Elizabethan believed that this division created by God and all of them have to follow it because he wants that . If anybody or anything break the chain Order the God will punish him/her . Macbeth does that , his actions through the play go against the chain . He breaks it by doing many things one of them is killing king Duncan but before that lady Macbeth takes charge and starts talking about the murder she does not even ask if her husband is consider it or not but she thinks he has to do it , she Macbeth the head of the hierarchy of family, takes advice from his wife who is below him according to the chain

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