Commentary on Macbeth Essay

. The plot is based on the History of Britain. It is one of the most known pieces of writing that is based on the story of a real Macbeth, king of Scotland. IT IS A WISH FOR POWER WITHOUT LIMITS. It depicts how brave and famous Macbeth becomes a villain because of his struggle for authority. The crisis conditions of people and their consciousness, reasons of their spiritual crisis(internal and external, objective and subjective). This inner conflict of an individual becomes the main theme of tragedy

A Journey from Brave Macbeth to Dead Butcher. Macbeths struggle of conscience (his decision to choose evil rather than good) and how these decisions affect him.

It shows how the character of Macbeth, transforms from a brave, loyal soldier, to a bloody murderer under the influence of the Three Witches and Lady Macbeth.( in all 4 witches including lady Macbeth).

At the end of Act I, Macbeth declares, I am settled, and bend up/Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. But just before that Macbeth has flatly told his wife that they shall proceed no further in the bloody business at hand: in the midst of lady Macbeths subsequent argument against such unmanly inaction (unsex speech).

How tempting and seducing are Lady Macbeths words to Macbeth in the plotting of the killing of the king. Lady Macbeth is possibly the fourth witch as she is taking pleasure in another mans discomfort as do the witches!

Macbeth struggles with his conscience and the fear of eternal damnation if he murders Duncan. Lady Macbeths conflict arises when Macbeths courage begins to falter. This shows that Lady Macbeth has great control over Macbeths actions. She uses tactics to gain control over Macbeth.

Banquo is a Scottish general in the kings army and Macbeths friend. Following the battle, Banquo and Macbeth encounter the witches, who make several prophesies about Macbeth. They then speak to Banquo about his own future, saying that Banquos descendants will be kings. Unlike Macbeth, who appears to be fascinated by the weird sisters, Banquo expresses doubts about the witches and their prophesies and also commented to Macbeth. After the Kings murder, Banquo gets suspicious on Macbeth and Macbeth, under the influence of the Witches predictions to Banquo, decides to kill both Banquo and his son!

Lady Macbeths argument contains a substantial amount of pathos throughout. This draws an emotional response from Macbeth, eventually allowing him to give into her pleas. She uses words such as coward and courage, which she directs toward Macbeth bringing into question his manliness. Macbeth was honored by the King as Thane of Cawdor for his great display of strength in the Army. For him to be called a coward by his wife is disheartening. Lady Macbeth knows of the great honor and therefore plays on it. She goes further in developing pathos when she says, How tender tis the love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, have pluckd my nipple from his boneless gums and dashd the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done this. She uses the relationship between a mother and a child to show the great importance that a promise has within it. Macbeth had told her he would do this, while it is something cruel, cruel similar to killing your own child he still must go through with it.

In his argument, Macbeth is quite indifferent about what he wants to do. He shows throughout a shift in tone. His argument begins with a soliloquy, where he reflects on the great things the King has done for him he states, First, as I am his kinsman and his subject. He has respect for the King as ruler of his country and for the fact that he named him thane of Cawdor. In his reflection Macbeth has an impartial tone, he knows the deed that he must complete but as seen through the reflection he cannot find a reason to follow through with the task. After his long reflection he then clearly says to Lady Macbeth, We will proceed no further in this business. Here his tone is serious; there is no questioning within what he is saying. The sentence is very declarative, he pulls in everything that he had just reflected upon and clearly makes his decision. But Macbeth quickly changes his attitude toward the killing after Lady Macbeth questions his manliness and honor. He flips back to the impartial tone as he questions what will happen if they fail at the deed. But once Lady Macbeth reassures him he quickly changes his tone again, Bring forth men-children only; for thy undaunted mettle should compose nothing but males. Will it not be received when we have markd with blood those sleepy two of his own chamber and used their very daggers. He shifts to a very confident tone, where he actually plans out what he and Lady Macbeth will do. And in the end he is persuaded to do what he once thought was incredibly wrong.

While Macbeth reflects upon the right and wrong of the plan he eventually gives in and goes through with it. Ultimately Lady Macbeth is able to persuade Macbeth because of her constant hit on his ego. An honorable man, is able to make and keep a promise, which Macbeth is finding hard to follow through with. A confused Macbeth is easily shaken by this, and therefore allows Lady Macbeth to show him that his ability to be a man is truly dependent on whether or not he follows through.

Lady Macbeth showed that she had great power over her husband in this scene. She only cared about power, and her dream of becoming queen and Macbeth becoming king was so deep that she showed little hesitation in killing the king and after showed little remorse after. Her persuasion of Macbeth to follow through with what he had promised showed that she was the instigator and the reason behind the demise of Macbeth as well as herself.