Year 1040, Court of Edward, England. When I saw my noble kinsmen in England, I had hoped for positive news since my departure. However, what Ross informed me was even worse than what I could have anticipated. Macbeth assaulted my fortress in Fife, brutally slaughtering my wife, my children, as well as all the servants in the castle. I am responsible for the. They were brutalized due to my sinfulness, and not as the result of any wrongdoing on their part. So why must this senseless suffering befall them? Why gracious God did you not provide assistance when their lives were unceremoniously taken? My family was slaughtered for no fault of their own, I bear the blame for this travesty. Therefore, I will avenge them, even if it were to be my last act. …show more content…
I shall repay him with interest the harm he has unleashed onto my family, so much so that he will regret for the rest of his numbered days the heinous deeds he has committed. Nevertheless, I told myself that I would transform my grief and sorrow into anger and let it hone my sword of vengeance. However, as the grief consumes me, even such feats seem insurmountable. As the haunting thoughts of what could have been if I was present pranced around inside my head like a tornado destroying everything upon contact, I could not help but crumble under the weight of knowing that my absence was the cause of their tragedy. Had I not left, the lives of my dear spouse and children would have been preserved. Even so, the heartache I feel clouds my thoughts, as I could not find the fortitude to withstand such anguish, and let myself get swept away by an unprecedented array of remorse. The despair enveloped me like a blanket soaked with tears, its heaviness felt like mountains marching on my back. The anguish consumed me like a fire, scorching my skin yet leaving my heart cold and barren from the void created from their absence. The endless torment of guilt was like an uncontrollable wave
Macbeth written by William Shakespeare somewhere between 1605 and 1606, was a play performed at the Globe theatre. There is no doubt that the play was intended for the king at the time, since he had become a patron of Shakespeare’s theatrical company. By the 1590’s Shakespeare was already an established writer of the time by 1599 he had already founded the Globe theater with 6 other associates whom called themselves “The King’s Men”. Around that moment in history, most people were known to believe in superstitions which included witches, ghost, and other supernatural beings. Some of the literature of the time included plots with such themes as it can be seen in Macbeth.
Then when we returned, the king was very pleased to see both of us for
Macbeth has slapped the heavens in the face when he slaughtered our beloved King Duncan. Whom god did appoint himself, he was the chosen representative of god himself. Let it be known the rightful king was the victim of cold blood murdered at the hands of Macbeth. Slaughtered in the shadows of the night, while he was a sleep; a cowardly and devilish act. Macbeth has violated God’s natural order and thrust himself upon the throne and today we will carry out God’s intended plan and return order. Today when we fight, we fight for Duncan who never got to fight for himself.
This essay earned a 89/100. it was a lot of work considering the lines from macbeth for textual support.
First came the pride, an overwhelming sense of achievement, an accomplishment due to great ambition, but slowly and enduringly surged a world of guilt and confusion, the conscience which I once thought diminished, began to grow, soon defeating the title and its rewards. Slowly the unforgotten memories from that merciless night overcame me and I succumbed to the incessant and horrific images, the bloody dagger, a lifeless corpse. I wash, I scrub, I tear at the flesh on my hands, trying desperately to cleanse myself of the blood. But the filthy witness remains, stained, never to be removed.
The Impact of Act 2 scene 2 of Macbeth & nbsp; Act 2 scene 2 is the most violent and intense part of Macbeth, although we do not actually witness the murder of King Duncan. It is interesting that Shakespeare chooses to have Macbeth kill Duncan offstage. We can only guess why he wrote the scene that way, I think that Shakespeare wanted to focus not on the murder but on Macbeth’s reaction to it; the bloody details supplied by the audiences imaginations will be much worse than anything that could be done onstage. It is also the most crucial part of the play; it is the first of many murders. This scene takes place at night; I feel the darkness represents what is unnatural, cruel and evil.
“If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me Without my stir?” Macbeth ponders after three witches foresee that he will become king in the tragic play Macbeth written by William Shakespeare (349). Macbeth is wondering how he could become king of Scotland without him intervening as he is not in line for the throne. He believes that he will have to take action to gain this position. Macbeth was right to doubt fate, because his choices led to his ascension to the throne and, later in the play, to his downfall.
The Secret Diary of Lady Macbeth After receiving a letter from Macbeth earlier today, I received a most urgent letter from Macbeth. He told me that he was accosted by three witches on the night of the battle between Scotland and Norway. They greeted him "All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis! All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! All hail Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter!" Macbeth was "rapt" with what the witches had said and tried to question them further, but they vanished into a haze of fog.
to plot when we are going to meet Macbeth. We decided to meet him with
prospect of you being king was so great that I lost touch with reason. When the
Macbeth rejects conformation to traditional gender roles in its portrayal of Lady Macbeth’s relationship with her husband, her morals and their effect on her actions, and her hunger for power. Her regard for Macbeth is one of low respect and beratement, an uncommon and most likely socially unacceptable attitude for a wife to have towards her spouse at the time. She often ignores morality and acts for the benefit of her husband, and subsequently herself. She is also very power-hungry and lets nothing stand in the way of her success. Lady Macbeth was a character which challenged expectations of women and feminism when it was written in the seventeenth century.
When anything in life first begins to grow, it begins as a seed. The seed of a plant, or of a thought, or of an idea. Once created, the seed can do one of two things. It can grow, or it can die. Shakespeare’s play Macbeth tells the story of an innocent man who is turned evil from the seeds planted by those around him, allowing readers to explore the repetition of growth and how it is implied through characters. Throughout the play, growth is used to display Macbeth and Banquo as foil characters, show Banquo’s “goodness” through positive imagery, and to show Macbeth’s “evilness” through negative growth imagery. By analyzing Shakespeare’s use of growth imagery, critical readers recognize that growth enforces the idea that growth triumphs evil, embodied in the actions and consequences of Macbeth and Banquo as they make one of two crucial choices? Good, or evil?
Macbeth’s story highlights the inherent goodness found in all of us, but also the evil that lurks within us, unnourished. Although there is no redemption for Macbeth’s evil sins, he finally comes to acknowledge his crimes and thus can provoke pity in the eyes of the audience. Macbeth’s psychological journey from a courageous general to a “ dead butcher” (5.9.41) is one that truly merits to be called a tragedy.
This specific action consequently resulted in Macbeth’s level of morality to continually decline as he is acutely aware of his own tyranny. Therefore Macbeth attempts to forget the horrific deed he has committed and be the figure that orders and disorders. Our perception of Macbeth being a wise and loyal soldier is now eroded, as we start to view Macbeth constantly questioning his own actions, and is also impelled to perpetrate further atrocities with the intention of covering up his previous wrong-doings.
In Shakespeare’s MacBeth, a Scottish thane ascends his way to becoming king by killing off anyone in his way. MacBeth’s first victim, and most difficult to kill, was King Duncan. The reason killing King Duncan was harder for MacBeth than killing other victims, was that MacBeth had never committed such a crime, and he was unsure whether or not he wanted to go through with his plan. He had promised his ambitious wife, Lady MacBeth, that he would kill Duncan, though he later reassesses the idea. If it were not for Lady MacBeth’s persuasion, Duncan most likely would not have been murdered.