How Does Shakespeare Present Fear In Macbeth's Soliloquy
How does Macbeth show his fears in his use of soliloquys?
The play Macbeth by William Shakespeare is believed to have been written between 1603 and 1607, and is most commonly dated 1606. The tragedy is about a man named Macbeth who is told by three witches that he is going to become king. He does everything in his power to make the prophecies come true and he ends up killing the king, his best friend and his friend’s wife and children. When he is told that no one born naturally by a woman can kill him he felt invincible until someone macduff who wasn’t born naturally from a woman killed him. I will be focusing on how he portrays fear throughout the play in his soliloquys, a soliloquy is a device used in plays to show the characters inner …show more content…
thoughts and feelings witch creates dramatic irony.
Macbeth does not want to kill Duncan because it would be a mortal sin so he is arguing with his conscience “First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,” Punishment in afterlife, so he is thinking that God hates guys who kill Kings or anyone. Macbeth is his host and should not stab his guest a dozen times while he sleeps. By using the words kinsman, subject and host to show that there are more positive reasons to why he should not kill Duncan and less negative ones to kill Duncan.
Macbeth started using opinions from the eyes of a religious person which again makes a strong point to why he shouldn’t kill Duncan. “That his virtues will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against the deep damnation of his taking-off;” Angels will see this deed and wake everybody up he uses strong biblical words to describe the deed like deep damnation. And he also uses similes by saying “That his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued”. Perhaps this is because Macbeth was too scared to tell Lady Macbeth that he was too scared to do the deed so he used some religious reasons so that he would still be a man in her eyes.
Macbeth does not want to kill anyone because he thinks that if he kills he gets killed.
“We still have judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice” Macbeth is saying that By committing violent crimes we only teach other people to commit violence, and the violence of our students will come back to plague us teachers. Justice, being equal to everyone he uses the verb handed to say that it will be easy for them to kill him because if he kills the king he deserves the maximum punishment no questions asked it is possible that Macbeth does not only want lady Macbeths respect but everyone else to basically he is saying what goes around always comes back around.
Macbeth starts to hallucinate a dagger lading him to kill Duncan “Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?” uses the verb towards to show that the dagger is inviting him in luring him to do the deed and this is the moment in the play when Macbeth had changed completely and gone evil this might be because the thought of power had gotten in to his head and it stared to control him and his thought the thing that makes the readers sick is the fact that he makes a decision to kill his own friend and
boss.
Macbeth starts to question himself saying that the dagger is just in his imagination “I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight? Or art thou but. A dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?” The dagger is indeed a 'fatal vision', a hallucinatory dagger that leads Macbeth to King Duncan's bed-chamber. If the real dagger is fatal for Duncan, this 'dagger of the mind' is going to be no less fatal for Macbeth. Macbeth's self-addressed question is also self-explanatory. Macbeth uses descriptive words like heat-oppressed brain this is because one side of him believes that it is surreal but the other side thinks that he is heading for a life of greatness because he is going to be king.
Macbeth starts to speak of the deed in grater and darker more evil detail to show that he is a completely changed man. “Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld, Nature seems dead and wicked dreams abuse, the curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder” in other words Macbeth is saying Now, over the one half-world Sleep makes people seem dead, and wicked dreams abuse Their sleep in beds with curtains. Now witchcraft celebrates Offerings to the pale goddess of magic. Macbeth uses adjectives like witchcraft to describe the evil in what he was about to do because in Shakespeare’s time witchcraft was seen as pure evil and that makes the audience lose respect and t6rust in Macbeths change in character. In my opinion Macbeth using those words makes me think. “I knew it he has gone evil” and it also made me think that he has gone mad with trying to please Lady Macbeth.
Macbeth admits that he is scared of Banquo and why heeds to get rid of him immediately. “To be thus is nothing, But to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo Stick deep, and in his royalty of nature.” Macbeth is saying that being king in this way means nothing, only to be safely king in this way matters. Our fears of Banquo Stick deep(he is scared that Banquo is going to make his life a living hell by telling everyone that he killed Duncan and there’s a lot to be afraid of in the royalty of his nature. He says our fears in Banquo to show the audience that he does have some fears of Banquo he uses the word safe to show that he wants all to be back to the way it was again when his life was easy and safe.
Macbeth also reveals that he is jealous that banquo’s children are going to be kings. “To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings! Rather than so, come, Fate, into the list, and champion me to the!” To make them kings, the sons of Banquo kings Rather than see that happen, come, Fate, into the arena, And fight for me to the death more Macbeth spoke the angrier he got that he had no children to take over the throne next after his. The adjective seed is used to describe banquo’s child as a boy and that he is too young to be king.
Macbeth started to get a bit upset because his children would take over the throne after him. “They hail'd him father to a line of kings: upon my head they placed a fruitless crown” they hailed him father to a line of kings and upon me placed a fruitless crown, he was basically saying that if banquo’s children are soon going to be king there was no point of him being king because he was going to either die or forced of the throne, he uses the adjective fruitless to show that the drown was useless unless his next generation took over after him and so on but because his son died he has no one to take over the throne for him and to me that seemed like the moment I started to feel sorry for him.
Macbeth starts to lose hope in himself. “I have lived long enough. My way of life is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf,” I have lived long enough. My way of life is fallen into the dry, withered yellow leaf he refers to leafs to say that his season of blooming is soon over by that he means his time on the throne is soon finished. And the prophesies are coming true one by one like the first time and he starts to get anxious and scared.
Macbeth admits that he has not got a good hearts and that he has gone evil. “Take thy face hence. Seyton—I am sick at heart”. Macbeth has seen what he had become, he had become a power loving maniac who had gone against all his believes and killed the people that were most close to him. This is because he had let his ambition get in the way of what he really believes in. He also uses words like sick at heart to show that he himself knows that the has become something unusual and that his heart does not follow gods way anymore.
Macbeth is saying that he is getting older and weaker every day and he thinks that he has to face the fact that he is cursed for eternity because of his dark and brutal heart. "that which should accompany old age As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses." Macbeth uses words like honour, friend and love which are words that Macbeth uses to show that he use to have all that until he changed (got cursed) because of the deed. He is also saying that old people should be thought of in those ways and those words should come to mind when they think of their old aged people and the fact that he has done so much bad no one will think of him and remember the good.
How does Macbeth show fear in his use of soliloquy is like when he said “our fears in Banquo stick deep …..” and Macbeth tends to make bad decisions and he does have a lot of fears revealed in the soliloquys Macbeth fears first started off with him not wanting to disappoint his wife and from that to him not wanting to get caught because of what he did, then he stared to doubt his friendship with Banquo and if he could trust him then finally his last revealed fear was how he was going to have to pay for what he had done.
The play Macbeth by William Shakespeare is believed to have been written between 1603 and 1607, and is most commonly dated 1606. The tragedy is about a man named Macbeth who is told by three witches that he is going to become king. He does everything in his power to make the prophecies come true and he ends up killing the king, his best friend and his friend’s wife and children. When he is told that no one born naturally by a woman can kill him he felt invincible until someone macduff who wasn’t born naturally from a woman killed him. I will be focusing on how he portrays fear throughout the play in his soliloquys, a soliloquy is a device used in plays to show the characters inner …show more content…
thoughts and feelings witch creates dramatic irony.
Macbeth does not want to kill Duncan because it would be a mortal sin so he is arguing with his conscience “First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,” Punishment in afterlife, so he is thinking that God hates guys who kill Kings or anyone. Macbeth is his host and should not stab his guest a dozen times while he sleeps. By using the words kinsman, subject and host to show that there are more positive reasons to why he should not kill Duncan and less negative ones to kill Duncan.
Macbeth started using opinions from the eyes of a religious person which again makes a strong point to why he shouldn’t kill Duncan. “That his virtues will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against the deep damnation of his taking-off;” Angels will see this deed and wake everybody up he uses strong biblical words to describe the deed like deep damnation. And he also uses similes by saying “That his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued”. Perhaps this is because Macbeth was too scared to tell Lady Macbeth that he was too scared to do the deed so he used some religious reasons so that he would still be a man in her eyes.
Macbeth does not want to kill anyone because he thinks that if he kills he gets killed.
“We still have judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice” Macbeth is saying that By committing violent crimes we only teach other people to commit violence, and the violence of our students will come back to plague us teachers. Justice, being equal to everyone he uses the verb handed to say that it will be easy for them to kill him because if he kills the king he deserves the maximum punishment no questions asked it is possible that Macbeth does not only want lady Macbeths respect but everyone else to basically he is saying what goes around always comes back around.
Macbeth starts to hallucinate a dagger lading him to kill Duncan “Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?” uses the verb towards to show that the dagger is inviting him in luring him to do the deed and this is the moment in the play when Macbeth had changed completely and gone evil this might be because the thought of power had gotten in to his head and it stared to control him and his thought the thing that makes the readers sick is the fact that he makes a decision to kill his own friend and
boss.
Macbeth starts to question himself saying that the dagger is just in his imagination “I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight? Or art thou but. A dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?” The dagger is indeed a 'fatal vision', a hallucinatory dagger that leads Macbeth to King Duncan's bed-chamber. If the real dagger is fatal for Duncan, this 'dagger of the mind' is going to be no less fatal for Macbeth. Macbeth's self-addressed question is also self-explanatory. Macbeth uses descriptive words like heat-oppressed brain this is because one side of him believes that it is surreal but the other side thinks that he is heading for a life of greatness because he is going to be king.
Macbeth starts to speak of the deed in grater and darker more evil detail to show that he is a completely changed man. “Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld, Nature seems dead and wicked dreams abuse, the curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder” in other words Macbeth is saying Now, over the one half-world Sleep makes people seem dead, and wicked dreams abuse Their sleep in beds with curtains. Now witchcraft celebrates Offerings to the pale goddess of magic. Macbeth uses adjectives like witchcraft to describe the evil in what he was about to do because in Shakespeare’s time witchcraft was seen as pure evil and that makes the audience lose respect and t6rust in Macbeths change in character. In my opinion Macbeth using those words makes me think. “I knew it he has gone evil” and it also made me think that he has gone mad with trying to please Lady Macbeth.
Macbeth admits that he is scared of Banquo and why heeds to get rid of him immediately. “To be thus is nothing, But to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo Stick deep, and in his royalty of nature.” Macbeth is saying that being king in this way means nothing, only to be safely king in this way matters. Our fears of Banquo Stick deep(he is scared that Banquo is going to make his life a living hell by telling everyone that he killed Duncan and there’s a lot to be afraid of in the royalty of his nature. He says our fears in Banquo to show the audience that he does have some fears of Banquo he uses the word safe to show that he wants all to be back to the way it was again when his life was easy and safe.
Macbeth also reveals that he is jealous that banquo’s children are going to be kings. “To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings! Rather than so, come, Fate, into the list, and champion me to the!” To make them kings, the sons of Banquo kings Rather than see that happen, come, Fate, into the arena, And fight for me to the death more Macbeth spoke the angrier he got that he had no children to take over the throne next after his. The adjective seed is used to describe banquo’s child as a boy and that he is too young to be king.
Macbeth started to get a bit upset because his children would take over the throne after him. “They hail'd him father to a line of kings: upon my head they placed a fruitless crown” they hailed him father to a line of kings and upon me placed a fruitless crown, he was basically saying that if banquo’s children are soon going to be king there was no point of him being king because he was going to either die or forced of the throne, he uses the adjective fruitless to show that the drown was useless unless his next generation took over after him and so on but because his son died he has no one to take over the throne for him and to me that seemed like the moment I started to feel sorry for him.
Macbeth starts to lose hope in himself. “I have lived long enough. My way of life is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf,” I have lived long enough. My way of life is fallen into the dry, withered yellow leaf he refers to leafs to say that his season of blooming is soon over by that he means his time on the throne is soon finished. And the prophesies are coming true one by one like the first time and he starts to get anxious and scared.
Macbeth admits that he has not got a good hearts and that he has gone evil. “Take thy face hence. Seyton—I am sick at heart”. Macbeth has seen what he had become, he had become a power loving maniac who had gone against all his believes and killed the people that were most close to him. This is because he had let his ambition get in the way of what he really believes in. He also uses words like sick at heart to show that he himself knows that the has become something unusual and that his heart does not follow gods way anymore.
Macbeth is saying that he is getting older and weaker every day and he thinks that he has to face the fact that he is cursed for eternity because of his dark and brutal heart. "that which should accompany old age As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses." Macbeth uses words like honour, friend and love which are words that Macbeth uses to show that he use to have all that until he changed (got cursed) because of the deed. He is also saying that old people should be thought of in those ways and those words should come to mind when they think of their old aged people and the fact that he has done so much bad no one will think of him and remember the good.
How does Macbeth show fear in his use of soliloquy is like when he said “our fears in Banquo stick deep …..” and Macbeth tends to make bad decisions and he does have a lot of fears revealed in the soliloquys Macbeth fears first started off with him not wanting to disappoint his wife and from that to him not wanting to get caught because of what he did, then he stared to doubt his friendship with Banquo and if he could trust him then finally his last revealed fear was how he was going to have to pay for what he had done.