The Murdering Lovers In Macbeth By William Shakespeare
The Murdering lovers
As the story of this tragedy starts off, Macbeth is titled as a brave soldier and this great thane. Macbeth wants to be King so bad that he will do everything and anything that will get him there. Throughout the play you begin to notice the need of power and the monstrous side of
Macbeth. He turns into an evil fanatic who only desires power. In this tragedy, Macbeth is portrayed as a vicious, unpleasant man who kills his own cousin, King Duncan.
Macbeth has the perfect resume to be King, but there is one thing standing in the way of that happening. His cousin Duncan is currently King, so Macbeth comes up with a plan to kill his own cousin. He gets in his own head and contemplates whether he should do it or not, before
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He feels that no one is safe and that he can not trust anyone.
Macbeth achieved his goal of becoming King, and he will kill anybody that tries take that from him. Next, the three witches claim that Banquo’s relatives are next in line to become King.
Macbeth takes this as a threat and acts upon it, hiring two people to find and kill Banquo. “...the
Montgomery 2 seeds of Banquo kings. Rather than so, come fate into the list, and champion me to th’ utterance”(Shakespeare III. 1.69-71). Within that quote it shows how devious Macbeth can be.
Some may counter this and say that Macbeth is actually a tragic hero in their eyes.
Macbeth was bound to have all of his crimes come back and haunt him, literally. After Macbeth slains Banquo, he starts to see a ghost or a hallucination of Banquo's body sitting in a chair at the dinner table. “ Here had we now had our country’s honor roofed, were the graced person of our
Banquo present, who may I rather challenge for unkindness, than pity for mischance”
(Shakespeare III. 3.40-44). Macbeth has no heroic characteristics, and a hero would not kill for oneself to gain power, and would not kill their very own
As the story of this tragedy starts off, Macbeth is titled as a brave soldier and this great thane. Macbeth wants to be King so bad that he will do everything and anything that will get him there. Throughout the play you begin to notice the need of power and the monstrous side of
Macbeth. He turns into an evil fanatic who only desires power. In this tragedy, Macbeth is portrayed as a vicious, unpleasant man who kills his own cousin, King Duncan.
Macbeth has the perfect resume to be King, but there is one thing standing in the way of that happening. His cousin Duncan is currently King, so Macbeth comes up with a plan to kill his own cousin. He gets in his own head and contemplates whether he should do it or not, before
following …show more content…
He feels that no one is safe and that he can not trust anyone.
Macbeth achieved his goal of becoming King, and he will kill anybody that tries take that from him. Next, the three witches claim that Banquo’s relatives are next in line to become King.
Macbeth takes this as a threat and acts upon it, hiring two people to find and kill Banquo. “...the
Montgomery 2 seeds of Banquo kings. Rather than so, come fate into the list, and champion me to th’ utterance”(Shakespeare III. 1.69-71). Within that quote it shows how devious Macbeth can be.
Some may counter this and say that Macbeth is actually a tragic hero in their eyes.
Macbeth was bound to have all of his crimes come back and haunt him, literally. After Macbeth slains Banquo, he starts to see a ghost or a hallucination of Banquo's body sitting in a chair at the dinner table. “ Here had we now had our country’s honor roofed, were the graced person of our
Banquo present, who may I rather challenge for unkindness, than pity for mischance”
(Shakespeare III. 3.40-44). Macbeth has no heroic characteristics, and a hero would not kill for oneself to gain power, and would not kill their very own