Violence In Macbeth And The Dramatic Monologue

Explore the ways writer’s present human violence and sin in “Macbeth” and the dramatic monologues of Robert Browning
Weakness and fatal flaws in literature reflect human nature. This means the reader can relate to the main character. In the two dramatic monologues by Robert Browning and in the play, ‘Macbeth’, each protagonist has a fatal flaw which is made evident in the first few scenes or stanzas of the narrative. Macbeth is motivated by ambition whilst in the Robert Browning’s monologues; the narrators are driven by the arrogance and jealousy in ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and revenge and jealousy in ‘The Laboratory’. All of which have fatal conclusions as a result of a fatal flaw.
The idea of a tragic hero comes from the Greek philosopher
Shakespeare and Robert Browning both portray their characters as villains. Macbeth is described as an evil character who commits regicide, which was a terrible crime in Elizabethan times, the King was appointed by God and Macbeth threatens to disrupt the natural order. In “Macbeth” Act I establishes Macbeth’s link with the three witches, when he repeats their very words “so foul and fair a day I have not seen” the use of juxtaposition and the repetition of the alliteration of the letter “F” The witches make it clear in the beginning, that "fair is foul, and foul is fair," meaning that good and bad are confounded, and situations that can appear to be good are actually, evil, and vice versa. Although Macbeth doesn't know it, he is doomed because his life is controlled by the forces of darkness. In Elizabethan times witches’ resembled sin, evil and unnatural order during the reign of James I people who were suspected of witchcraft were severely punished. Macbeth’s fatal flaw causes him to sin; he thinks of killing the king and wants to kill the heirs to the throne, the king’s two sons. That would mean he would secure the throne and fulfil the witches’ prophecies. Macbeth confirms that his fatal flaw is ambition in Act one in his soliloquy “Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself” this shows the only thing making him commit these sinful actions is his fatal flaw, ambition. Vaulting is a verb