Audience's Feelings About Macbeth of William Shakespeare's Macbeth

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Audience's Feelings About Macbeth of William Shakespeare's Macbeth

"Macbeth" is a tragic play in which Macbeth's ambition to be king

becomes his tragic flaw, however with his high status people still

respect him, this is why Macbeth is a tragic hero.

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The play starts with thunder, lightning and the three witches. This

leads you with no doubt about what the plot of the story is to involve

the forces of good and evil. When the witches chant, "Fair is foul and

foul is fair" you know that it is going to be difficult to tell the

difference between good and evil. In the next scene King Duncan is

being informed of what a good soldier Macbeth is, with phrases like,

"O valiant cousin" and "Noble Macbeth".

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Macbeth is a very violent person when he is on the battlefield as he

has killed so many people that the skulls could form a mountain.

During all of this praise for Macbeth, the audience is left wondering

why three such evil people as the witches were plotting to meet

Macbeth at the very beginning of the play.

The first words we hear from Macbeth are spoken in scene three, and

just like King Duncan's are very significant, "So foul and fair a day"

similar words to those of the witches in the first scene, again making

you wonder about the connections between Macbeth and the Witches. Is

Shakespeare suggesting that Macbeth and the Witches are similar in

character as well as the way they talk? Or is there a possibility that

the witches can control him in some way?

Although the witches tell Macbeth he is to become King, he is made to

feel uneasy as they also tell Banquo that he will become father of

Kings.

The first mention of murder is by Macbeth at the end of scene three,

after receiving the title, Thane of Cawdor. At the moment Macbeth

considers murder as

"Fantastical" meaning that it only exists in his imagination. He has

acknowledged that the notion of murder is there.

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