Macbeth's Decline In Humanity

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Throughout this passage, Macbeth perceives himself as much stronger than he is and reacts coldly to the news of his wife’s death. Through Macbeth’s perception of his life, and of his wife’s death, Shakespeare characterizes him as a man who has lost his humanity. “I have almost forgot the taste of fears;” By having Macbeth state that he no longer feels fear or fears his own mortality, Shakespeare uses Macbeth’s own words to characterize Macbeth as a man who does not feel fear, a vital human emotion. “As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts Cannot once start me.” Shakespeare adds context to Macbeth’s decline in humanity by explaining that Macbeth has become too desensitized to horror,

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