Fair Is Foul And Foul Is Fair Macbeth

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair”. This quote perfectly perceives the numerous perspectives in which Macbeth is captured into as he battles between the acts that he has perpetrated and the perceptual reality. In The Tragedy of Macbeth, a play written by William Shakespeare, a Scottish noble named Macbeth, who respected his ruler dearly, was forced to annihilate his king due to the toxicities of ambition and jealousy that he possessed ultimately destroying his innocence. Throughout the story, Macbeth is victimized between two controversial personalities as he longs to be king, but does not want to commit the act of murder against the king, whom he loved dearly and looked up upon. By Act II, he commits the murder, with the help of his wife, and shows many signs that foreshadow the characteristics and personality of his future, a madman. However, after the murder has been done, a porter scene was inserted into the play that may have acted as a three-reasoned distraction as well as a scene that distinctively ties the two main aspects of the current situation, the modifications of
However, he provided counterclaims, suggesting that the porter scene was unnecessary. Taking a different approach, Thomas De Quincey’s from On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth article suggested that the audience should feel some form of sympathy for Macbeth as he loses his innocence and is consumed by madness and hell’s thoughts. In the end, De Quincey mentions that the porter scene serves as an importance for it shows how Macbeth’s safe haven transformed into a castle of a dark, bitter environment that may be known as a mere recreation of hell