Analysis: The More Experience In Macbeth

The more Experience There is this Chinese saying that my father always tells me: “I have tasted more salt than you have rice.” The rice symbolizes the whole experience and the salt, being wisdom, is what you learned from the experiences. The size of a single grain of salt is far smaller compared to a grain of rice. If one consumed more salt than another’s rice, then according to this saying, someone that is older than another will have more wisdom than that another’s experiences in total. This idiom is usually used when an elder, usually a wise member of a Chinese community, is teaching a young one a lesson. So why do people value and gather experience so much? In my personal viewpoint, I think that they are trying to prepare for the unknown

Sometimes, negative experiences will have the potential of causing trauma, which can lead to people not be able to pass on over their fears and overcoming themselves. The same could be said about positive experiences. In a realistic scenario, both experiences will be at work and will interact with one and another. In the play Macbeth, the main character experienced both positive and negative experience. In which, both had a negative impact and both contributed to the tragic hero’s downfall. A negative experience would be the killing of Duncan. This filled Macbeth will a lot of guilt and the courage to perform murder again making him become more ruthless and violent. A positive experience would be Macbeth becoming king, this was something that he always desired. Instead of satisfying Macbeth’s power lust, this only made him paranoid that this power, that was not rightfully his, would be stipped away from him. This filled him with the want to do everything he can to preserve it, making him more dangerous to the people he once counted on as allies. These experiences accumulated inside of Macbeth and slowly changing him from a kind hero into a selfish tyrant resembling Joseph