Macbeth: Character Analysis
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- Created on: 05-11-16 21:28
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- CHARACTER ANALYSIS
- Macbeth
- (1) Initial impression is of a brave and capable warrior.
- (2) After reaction with the witches, we realize the joint of his physical courage and consuming ambition
- (3) The prediction that he will be king brings him joy, but creates inner turmoil.
- Fluctuates between fits of fevered action, in which he plots a series of murders to secure his throne, moments of guilt and absolute pessimism
- These fluctuations reflect the tragic tension within Macbeth: he is at once too ambitious to stop his conscience to from murdering his way to the top. But he's too conscientious to be happy with his actions
- Fluctuates between fits of fevered action, in which he plots a series of murders to secure his throne, moments of guilt and absolute pessimism
- Shakespeare uses Macbeth to show the terrible effects that ambition & guilt can have on a man, who lacks strength of character.
- He could be classified as irrevocably evil, but his weak character separates him from Shakespeare's other villains. e.g. Lago - Othello or Edmund - King Lear.
- Although he is a great warrior, he is ill equipped for physic consequences of crime.
- Before killing Duncan, he's plagued by worry and almost aborts the crime.
- He could be classified as irrevocably evil, but his weak character separates him from Shakespeare's other villains. e.g. Lago - Othello or Edmund - King Lear.
- As things fall apart towards the ending of the play , he seems quite relieved as he can return his comfortably being a warrior- he displays a kind of reckless bravado as he is surrounded by his enemies.
- The Three Witchses
- Throughout the play the 3Ws "weird sisters" lurk like dark thoughts and unconscious temptations to evil.
- Their beards, weird potions and rhymed speech make them seem slightly ridiculous, like caricatures of the supernatural. Shakespeare makes them speak in rhyming couplets, separating them from the other characters who speak in blank verse.
- Their words seem comical, like malevolent nursery rhymes. Despite the absurdity of their recipes, they are clearly the most dangerous characters in the play , being both tremendously powerful and utterly wicked.
- Their beards, weird potions and rhymed speech make them seem slightly ridiculous, like caricatures of the supernatural. Shakespeare makes them speak in rhyming couplets, separating them from the other characters who speak in blank verse.
- They embody an unreasoning, instinctive evil.
- The audience is left to question if the 3Ws are just meddling with human lives or agents of fate, whose prophecies are only reports of the inevitable.
- Throughout the play the 3Ws "weird sisters" lurk like dark thoughts and unconscious temptations to evil.
- Macbeth
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