For Every Action There is a Reaction in Macbeth

William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth tells the story of Macbeth, a loyal and brave nobleman who lives in Scotland, with his wife Lady Macbeth. At the start of the play, Macbeth (a general in the army of King Duncan, originally thane of Glamis, then thane of Cawdor, and later King of Scotland) takes three prophecies from three atrocious witches. The first witch says, “All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis” (1.3.48). The second witch says, “All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Cawdor” (1.3.49). The third witch tells us the final prophecy and she says, “All hail, Macbeth! that shall be king hereafter” (1.3.50). This is where the whole play unfolds with Macbeth knowing that he will become King in times way, and so forth he begins his way to becoming king with later on in the play as he murderers the King of Scotland, King Duncan. He eventually kills many others such as Banquo, Lady Macduff and her children, which later on in the play everyone caught on to why Macbeth killed the innocent, and is to why everyone retired away from his power, went against him and killed him. Macbeth’s death would be considered a “Poetic Justice” in the play Macbeth. The outburst of Lady Macbeth’s death for taking out a suicide would as well be considered a “Poetic Justice” in the play. But the wicked from them all, the three witches do not suffer in any way and do not take any punishment for their acts. The degree of “Poetic Justice” found in the play of Macbeth is acceptable and would be at a completion of 85%.

The first to be mentioned in my introduction paragraph right above is the one and only Macbeth. The first malevolent decision by Lady Macbeth and Macbeth was to kill King Duncan. With King Duncan ...

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...ld be when Macduff slaughters Macbeth and Malcolm is put back in the honour of the throne and is called King of Scotland. So, therefore, the witches are just as guilty for the events that place, but yet they suffer no punishment for it.

The only people in the whole play that have done wrong have been either murdered or have committed suicide but the witches. I left my degree at an 85% for the reason that the witches were not punished in the act of justice but just left alone. Reason being is because no one but Banquo and Macbeth knew of them which are how they played the whole game invisible to their own power. Whether or not that poetic justice is served to all, it did serve to the biggest treats in the whole play; Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

Works Cited

"Justice in Macbeth." 123HelpMe.com. 13 Jan 2016

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