How Does Shakespeare Use Violence In Macbeth

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Violence, Sensationalism, and the Supernatural in Macbeth

Shakespeare had a thorough idea of what his audience wanted. In Macbeth he used violence, sensationalism, and elements of the supernatural to appeal to his audience.

Shakespeare knew his audience when he used violence in Macbeth to heighten the effect of the play. One example of the violence is this scene. Lady Macbeth "That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire. Hark! Peace! It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman, which gives the stern’st good-night. He is about it. The doors are open, and the surfeited grooms do mock their charge with snores. I have drugged their possets, that death and nature do contend about …show more content…

Whiles I see lives, the gashes do better upon them." Macduff "Turn, hell-hound, turn!" Macbeth "Of all men I have avoided thee. But get thee back! My soul is too much charged with blood of thine already." Macduff "I have no words: my voice is in my sword, thou bloodier villain than terms can give thee out!" Macbeth "Thou losest labor: as easy mayest thou the intrenchant air with thy keen sword impress as make me bleed: let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests: I bear a charmed life, which must not yield to one of women born." Macduff "Despair thy charm, and let the angel whom thou still has served tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped." Macbeth "Accursed be that tongue that tells me so, for it hath cowed my better part of man! And be these juggling fiends no more believed, that palter with is a double sense; that keep the word of promise to our ear, and break it to our hope. I’ll not fight with thee." Macduff "Then yield to thee, coward, and live to be the show and the gaze o’ th’ time: we’ll have thee, as our rarer monsters are, painted upon a pole, and underwrit, "Here may you see the tyrant." Macbeth "I will not yield, to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet, and be baited

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