Abuse Of Power In Macbeth

William Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Macbeth is a tale set in the middle ages that demonstrates the corruption of political conquest and conspiracy. Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, commence on a destructive path in pursuit of power and influence. Power within itself hinders a threshold of such an empowering embrace through a mentality manifested by a prideful and egomaniacal person such as Macbeth, considering he was never before in a position of power. While the play unfolds, there are many devices the author demonstrates to describe the applicability Macbeth feels to get a sense of what it’s like to be king. Shakespeare uses literary elements such as rhythm, tone, and imagery to present an image of unveiling bloodlust and abuse of power shown by Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

“Fair is foul and foul is fair” which means that ugly will become beautiful and vice versa, foreboding the actions to take place in the play, although the beauty is not considered to change physically, but rather mentally. The play has various examples of rhyme, but this one seems to rise above the rest. The reason being because of the text placement, which is at the very beginning of the tragedy. As the play continues on, the witches enter again to tell Macbeth that he will be king. The first witch says, “All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!” (Act 1, Scene 3) Without using rhyme necessarily, Shakespeare uses rhythm in the witches voice to make you direct it inversely with a sort of wicked enchantment as they speak. They may not be actually doing a spell, but it creates an image of one being made to entertain the audience. Without the use of rhythm in a play, the tone would be offset because of the lack of beat while the reader is