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Theme Of Regret In Macbeth

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If killing someone was as easy as Macbeth did to his king Duncan, then everyone will kill anyone they want, but the sin of regret will come back as of the choice you choose to make as the same that will happen to Macbeth in the play, Macbeth by Williams Shakespeare. Macbeth plays a heroic performance as to protect his king and fight for the thane of cawdor. Shakespeare says fate is about pre-construction because Macbeth and Lady Macbeth makes their own choice, and they see their own sin of horror in his great tragedy Macbeth. Macbeth is the purpose of regretting his life because he’s desperate by his thirst of power. He listens to the untrue told by the witches and make wrong choices as he goes on. When he meet the witches, he was told …show more content…

“That trusted home might yet enkindle you unto the crown, besides the thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange: and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray 's in deepest consequence. Cousins, a word, I pray you.” (I.iii.140-147). Banquo explains the witches are powerful and their words can lead to anything. He explains the honesty of the witches can be hidden deep, and they were only expose a little to Macbeth yet Macbeth is blind by the thirst of power he will receive. “The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step on which I must fall down, or else o 'erleap, for in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: the eye wink at the hand; yet let that be, which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.” (I.iv.55-61). Macbeth falls into horror consequence as he knows he will have to kill the king. It will be a choice that will change Macbeth’s life …show more content…

“Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night, scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; and with thy bloody and invisible hand cancel and tear to pieces that great bond which keeps me pale! Light thickens; and the crow makes wing to the rooky wood: good things of day begin to droop and drowse; while night 's black agents to their preys do rouse.” (II.II.50-55). He continues his doing because he cannot undo what he has done but take the responsibility to die at the end of the play for his wrongdoing and fate of the choice he built throughout the play. Shakespeare show Macbeth’s pre-construction from the first choice he makes to trust the witches to the last day of his life. His fate is what he chooses to do, the wrong choices bring Macbeth’s biggest regret of his

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