I believe that , yes everything does happen for a reason but you yourself get to decide what that reason is. I like that idea because it doesn't put the blame on anybody and it really lets you just live your life. Now, I do believe that some people do alter the course we may set for ourselves but again that must just be a part of the ride. Aside from mental issues and internal forces most of your life is external. The big one for most decisions I would say is your conscience. The conscience is the very thing that drove Macbeth insane. The book Macbeth tells a story about a worthy Thane in early history who is visited by external forces that may or may not have altered the path Macbeth's life has gone. It makes you ponder if it was always meant to be or he really changed what was gonna happen to him. I …show more content…
personally believe without the external forces in this book such drastic measures would not have taken place. Macbeth may have been capable of such things before hand but the Supernatural world sparked the dormant possibilities that laid inside him. You have the ability to choose what happens to you and Macbeth chose to try to better his life in which he was successful. unfortunately you can’t perfect crazy and a few loose ends come back to get him in the end, literally. You may think what he did was what he was always gonna do, external forces aside. If this were real life and current day where you have to face responsibilities instead of just being killed, Macbeth should have had to take the blame for what he did along with his accomplice wife. To not fault of his own his destiny was decided for him and he carried it out willingly. I’ll let you decide if I am right. Happy wife, Happy life.
It’s a saying which just means if you keep your spouse happy you will have a better life. Unfortunately for Macbeth this was not the case. It wasn’t that she was not happy but she was never fulfilled which then pushed macbeth closer and closer to going through with what ideas the “witches” broke free in his head. The plays I witnessed portrayed macbeth's attitude toward being king as just something he wished for and aspired to be. Not until the witches paid him a visit did he make a plan and follow through with it. Macbeth is to blame for the actions that took place and I am not arguing that, what I’m saying is that Macbeth would have never been on this path of evil and destruction if external voices didn’t give him a map. It’s like when you take a kid that has never had any structure in his or hers life and after 4 years of bullying and flunking classes expect him to go out and become a contributing member of society. It’s nobody’s fault directly except maybe the parents but circumstances led him to it. The saying “wrong place at the wrong time” really comes into play with this topic. Not so much wrong place wrong time just the wrong
life. I seem to have focused on external forces more than internal but what you think in your head is the most important of all. I’d like to say everybody on earth was born with morals and values but some of the cruelty that takes place in this day and age says otherwise. examples including Adolf Hitler and the slaughter of countless people or even Ted Bundy who had a more selective group of victims but still caused havoc over the U.S for many years with no remorse. In court pleading insanity allows you to be free from jail time, I assume that is for other prisoners but you are allowed to blame the most unjust acts of violence and horror on mental instability. Which really shows how important the internal forces are in all aspects of life including Macbeth. The thoughts and dreams Macbeth had were what really drove him crazy. The hallucinating and imagining of a man he had murdered for the best example I can think of.
In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth both show signs of what would today be diagnosed as symptoms of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is defined as "a psychotic disorder characterized by loss of contact with the environment, by noticeable deterioration in the level of functioning in everyday life, and by disintegration of personality expressed as disorder of feeling, thought, and conduct." There are three major symptoms of the disorder; not being able to distinguish the difference between fantasy and reality, incoherent conversations, and withdrawal physically and emotionally. The most common and most well known symptom of schizophrenia is when people cannot distinguish between what is real and what is not. Schizophrenics often suffer from delusions and hallucinations. A delusion is a false belief or idea and a hallucination is seeing, hearing, or sensing something that is not really there. Some people diagnosed with the illness may speak with disjointed conversations. They often utter vague statements that are strung together in an incoherent way. Lastly, some schizophrenics withdraw emotionally, for example, their outlook on life is deadened and they show little or no warmth, and also physically, such as their movements become jerky and robot-like.
The choices people make lead them to where they end up, which may be interpreted as the opposite of fate. However, when some people believe something is meant to be, they are determined not to stray from where they think they should end up, even if it means throwing away their principles and values in the process. Through Shakespeare's Tragedy of Macbeth, Macbeth’s original character and values are destroyed because of the influence from the witches' prophecies, Lady Macbeth's greed, and his own hidden ambition.
Works of literature that attract people usually contain some wild thinking. Henry David Thoreau, in his essay “Walking,” makes this assessment of literature: “In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is but another name for tameness. It is the uncivilized free and wild thinking in Hamlet and The Iliad, in all scriptures and mythologies, not learned in schools, that delights us.” In the play “Macbeth,” Shakespeare uses “uncivilized free and wild thinking” in order to make the storyline interesting and entertaining.
Marilyn Monroe once said, “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they 're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” Is fate subjected to one’s actions or is there another force that intervenes? Two choices to pick from, but each decision will result in a different ending. Most people believe they are free to choose whatever they want, however was fate already predestined that makes people decide their fate regardless of choice? Over the centuries, people have pondered upon the fact that integrity, justice, and moral principles play a role in deciding one’s fate. Does this mean that if Odysseus were to put aside his pride and be humble along his journey home, he would not have gone through all that trouble for anything? Is fate uncontrollable even for the Gods to handle? Forrest Gump is born mental
While the diagnosis of mental conditions is considered a modern practice, people throughout history have suffered similar mental illnesses but have gone undocumented or unstudied. But even without scientific or psychological records, mental illness can clearly be derived from historical figures and works of art. As early as the 1600s, characters in literary pieces are known to depict characteristics of modern mental labels. During this time period, mental illnesses were generally credited to witchcraft or demonic possession. Though the explanations seem farfetched, the symptoms of what are now seen as neurological disruptions remain the same. In William Shakespeare’s seventeenth century play Macbeth, several characters portray indications of what could be the modern diagnosis schizophrenia.
Macbeth is told that Banquo is dead, but Fleance has escaped and Macbeth says that Fleance is like a serpent and will not be a problem just yet but will eventually become one. Macbeth then see Banquo’s ghost at the table and stops dead in his tracks, with horror on his face he begins talking to the ghost. Lady Macbeth covers the scene with saying that Macbeth has delusions. The ghost leaves and then the table makes a toast to Banquo and the ghost reenters causing Macbeth to scream at the ghost to leave, his wife, once again covers his outbursts with saying that he has delusions and they bid the lord farewell. Macbeth says that he will go see the weird sisters and says that he is not in his right senses. The three witches meet with Hecate,
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a tragedy in which the main characters are obsessed by the desire for power. Macbeth’s aspiration for power blinds him to the ethical implications of his dreadful acts. The more that Shakespeare’s Macbeth represses his murderous feelings, the more he is haunted by them. By analyzing his hallucinations it is possible to trace his deteriorating mental state and the trajectory of his ultimate fall. Throughout the play Macbeth is never satisfied with himself. He feels the need to keep committing crime in order to keep what he wants most: his kingship. The harder Macbeth tries to change his fate the more he tends to run into his fate. His ambition and struggle for power was Macbeth’s tragic flaw in the play. Macbeth’s rise to the throne was brought about by the same external forces that ensure his downfall.
Macbeth's relationship with his wife was not always great. This is shown in one of there conversations;
The Tragedy of Macbeth written by William Shakespeare is a tale of a man and his un-bridled ambition, set in ancient Scotland. Macbeth is a nobleman of the king of Scotland, Duncan, who is in mid-war with Norway. Macbeth and his fellow general Banquo encounter three witches. The witches tell the pair that Macbeth will be king, and Banquo’s children will also be kings. Any person in their right mind would question information given to them by strangers, let alone witches, but for some reason these statements intrigue Macbeth. They temp Macbeth to do evil things such as treason, and worse, to kill. Although un-bridled ambition is his main tragic flaw, there is one more that plays a big role in his decisions and the outcome of the story; Macbeth is far too impressionable.
Part of human nature is struggling to choose between two random forces. In the play Macbeth, Shakespeare describes how conflict within a person can drive someone mad until the end of their lives. For Macbeth, part of this struggle was keeping his sanity intact after all the bad deeds he had committed. Another part of his struggle was swaying between the forces of innocence and guilt. The final struggle Macbeth had within him was going up against fate and free will. Throughout the play, Shakespeare demonstrates the inner conflict within Macbeth, as he contends against the conflicts of fate and free will, sanity and insanity, and innocence and guilt.
text of the play seems to imply that Macbeth is indeed responsible for his own
Act 3 Scenes 1-4 Shakespeare incorporates Christianity in the play. In Act 3 Scene 1, Macbeth talks about his guardian angel being scared like how Mark Anthony’s was towards Octavius Caesar; “My genius is rebuked, as it said / Mark Anthony's was by Caesar” (3.1.61-62). Justify why Macbeth would believe he still has a guardian angel even though he couldn’t vocalize ‘amen.’ Appraise Lady Macbeth’s inclination in Act 3 Scene 2.
As the three witches said, “Fair is foul, and foul is fair (Shakespeare 1.1.1).” This could be interpreted in a couple different ways. One example being that what is good will eventually lead to bad, and what is bad will turn good. Macbeth starts off being someone who didn’t want to harm anyone, and wants to keep the peace. That is until his wife and the witches got it into his head that he could be successful and important.
Women are the End of a Sane Man's Mind In the beginning of the novel, Macbeth’s colleagues see him as a brave and noble soldier, but throughout the play he begins to change. By the time he reaches his downfall, he is driven mad by his sense of power. He becomes power-hungry and will seemingly do anything to get past whatever or whoever stands in his way. William Shakespeare portrays Macbeth as a well- respected and trustworthy soldier who finds himself driven mad and bloodthirsty through murderous crime, who was compelled by his wife to lose himself in his ambition.
Macbeth’s tragic flaw is his ambition and it consequentially leads to his downfall and ultimate demise. Macbeth is a tragic hero who is introduced in the the play as being well-liked and respected by the general and the people. He brings his death upon himself from this tragic flaw. His strengths turn into his weaknesses and his ambition drives him to the edge and sets himself up for his tragic death.