Comparing Macbeth And The Dark Night

When Macbeth comes back with the bloody daggers, he immediately feels guilt Lady Macbeth responds to his guilty emotion by exclaiming, “Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead. Are but as pictures: ‘tis the eyes of childhood that fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I’ll gild the faces of the grooms withal; for it must seem their guilt” (2.2. 53-57). When Lady Macbeth says, “for it must seem their guilt”, she is so determined to cover up the murder that she will even bloody other people, to blame it on someone else. When Lady Macbeth says “If he do bleed, I’ll gild the faces of the grooms withal; for it must seem their guilt”, she is saying that she will go so far as to put Duncan’s blood on the servants’, so it looks like they killed him. After Macbeth kills Duncan, Macbeth is looking over Duncan’s dead body, and he addresses how gory his body is, saying, “Who can wise, amazed, temp’rate, and furious, neutral, in a moment? No man. Th’ expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason. Here lay Duncan, his silver skin laced with his golden blood,a nd his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature for ruin’s wasteful entrance; there the murderers, steeped in the colors of their trade, their daggers unmannerly breached with gore. Who could refrain, that had a heart to love, and in that heart courage to make love’s known?”

Despite Macbeth 's initial reluctance towards killing Duncan, he eventually chooses to execute his beloved king, demonstrating both his lust for hegemony and lack of respect for his superiors. Just before committing the treasonous act of murder, Macbeth stares at the "dagger of the mind," and as he does so, thick drops of blood appear on the blade and hilt. Calling out to the knife, he declares, “I see thee still, / And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, / Which was not so before" (2.1.45-47). Macbeth begins to question his sanity since a dagger appears before his eyes and blood suddenly materializes onto the hilt of the dagger but his greed, and slight delusion, suppresses correct judgement and does not stop him from committing regicide. Moreover, Macbeth’s reluctance

Macbeth’s heart initially hardens following his first murder, causing extreme anguish but also making him more at ease with performing such heinous crimes for personal benefit. With his newfound comfort, Macbeth goes on to kill again, after which he states “I am in blood stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, returning as tedious as go o’er” (III, iv, lines 135-137). This profound statement reveals Macbeth’s complete commitment to performing such malicious deeds, as he no longer feels remorse or shame. Macbeth’s heart becomes so hardened from his malevolent actions that he is no longer able to understand the consequences of violating basic moral principles, such as the taking of a human life. Macbeth believes that he is simply doing what he feels is necessary to protect himself and is unable to realize the extreme consequences of his actions. Macbeth is the quintessential example of a hard heart only growing harder: he has committed so many malicious actions that he is emotionally unable to feel compunction and permanently changed into a cold-hearted, vicious

     Joseph Conrad and William Shakespeare are not traditionally paired up for a critical analysis. However, the characters MacBeth and Kurtz in MacBeth and Heart of Darkness, respectively, prove to be worthy of comparison. MacBeth and Kurtz share many common characteristics: both have vaulting ambition that leads both to their success and their demise, a superiority complex, and both make similar sacrifices to achieve their goal. Despite their many similarities, MacBeth and Kurtz differ in many respects. The way the authors present each character varies greatly, and the way each interacts with his surroundings contrast a great deal. The circumstances that follow their actions also

Macbeth feels guilty with blood on his hands after killing King Duncan is paranoid after supposedly hearing voices from the servants making him think he had been caught. Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth to put the daggers back, yet Macbeth is too scared to. Lady Macbeth then states, using reassurance to tell Macbeth “The sleeping dead are but pictures” This makes Macbeth realise Duncan is dead, which leads to Macbeth becoming more ambitious to be King. The techniques used in these quotes meet the audiences expectations of Macbeth murdering King Duncan by showing how he is ambitious to be

The poetry covered in class was actually pretty great. Especially when we got into iambic pentameter; being allowed to create our own poems with iambic pentameter helped me, personally, understand the style of writing even more. As for The Tyger & The Lamb, both sections were very well taught and understood. I guess one thing to change would be having a bit more of a selection of poetry to learn from. Having a choice in the material helps encourage students to understand and want to learn the material more.

In Western culture today, it is a widely accepted fact that men and women have equal power in a marriage; whereas in Elizabethan times, a woman was dominated by her husband and she would have very little control over her life. The leading omnipotent couple in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth have a compelling marriage with a power dynamic that is beyond the boundaries set by society at the time in which he wrote the play. The directors Roman Polanski and Rupert Goold in their film adaptations of Macbeth, use contrasting paradigms of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and the power between the two that result in two fascinating interpretations of Shakespeare’s original characters. By

This drove Macbeth’s ambition to kill the king, which is one of the most important scenes where violence is exposed. After King Duncan gets murdered by Macbeth by being stabbed to death in a bedroom, Macbeth gradually starts to regret his sinful deeds, because of this Macbeth slowly becomes nervous and more cautious and suspicious of the people around him. The unbearable stress and guilt that Macbeth is under turns him mad. This madness drove him to hire murderers to dispose Banquo. Macbeth started to lose his sanity after seeing Banquo's ghost and had visited the witches.

In the tragic play, Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, the main character Macbeth is a Scottish thane esteemed by the king and other thanes. He is immediately portrayed as a brave and honorable warrior with loyalty to his country. Then, three witches tell him three prophecies about his future and in order to fulfill the prophecy of becoming king, Macbeth must kill Scotland’s beloved King Duncan. He and his wife, Lady Macbeth, have an ambition that leads to life or death decisions needing to be made. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth initially both have this ambition and a desire for power, but as changes occur, they begin to differ and these differences evolve throughout the play.

Murder. Blood. Daggers. Prophecies. These compose the world of Macbeth. At the beginning of the play, Macbeth is described as being heroic and noble since he proudly fought for his country in the war. Macbeth will always retain innocence, even when there is only a sliver of it left. However, he is soon described as a “tyrant” and “wicked” after learning of the witches’ prophecy and manipulates his fate. The shift that Macbeth makes in his human nature is not on his own. He had to be pushed in order for him to cross the line between good and evil. The witches helped implant the idea of murdering King Duncan and usurp his throne, while Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth to kill the King. Although Macbeth had to be pushed to commit these acts of

        Duncan's murder has an affect on Macbeth; he is scared and can't face what he has done.  He keeps insisting that he heard voices saying that he will never sleep again because of this terrible deed he has committed, " Methought I heard a voice cry sleep no more! Macbeth doth murder sleep the innocent sleep..." Macbeth's reaction to Duncan's death at least shows some sort of guilt or sympathy for him; however, by the time Macbeth has his best friend, Banquo murdered his sanity ceases to exist.  The interest that Macbeth has in hearing the details of Banquo's murder, his best friends murder, holds complete insanity.  The Murderer enters with blood upon his face Macbeth approaches him to find out if he did his job.  He finds out that Banquo's throat has been cut, and that he lies in a ditch covered in gashes.  " My lord, his throat is cut that I did for him. ", " Ay, my good lord: safe in a ditch he bides, with twenty trenched gashes on his head..." Macbeth's philosophy, " Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill."  Means do something once, it bother's you, do it again, it bothers you less, keep doing it and it stops bothering you completely. Macbeth's interest on how the blood was shed shows intense signs of craziness. The blood imagery in this scene starts to pass a feeling of uneasiness to the audience.

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be” spoken by William Shakespeare. An ironic quote written by the man who would become one of the most famous literary figures of all time. Born into the early Elizabethan era, William Shakespeare affected the world around him, and the future. Shakespeare absolutely knew what he was in his time, but had no idea the impact he would make in the upcoming future. William Shakespeare, a revered poet and playwright, has astonished the literary world for years, and will continue to do so for centuries to come.

The blood represents how guilt he feels before the murder and obviously afterward. Macbeth murdered his king’s intoxicated guards after Duncan to make sure he was not accused and trying to absolve himself of the guilt for the murders.

While perhaps the claims I am about to make were formed due to recent exposure to a multitude of Shakespeare's/Shakespearean work, I still could not help but bring to light the comparisons I made between the relationships in The Indian Emperour and those in The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo & Juliet, and Macbeth.

Even before the despicable act is played out he is wracked with guilt. Just before Duncan’s murder Macbeth has trouble discerning what is real and what is an illusion, he begins to see blood and daggers where there really is none. “Or else worth all the rest. I see thee still,/ and on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,/ which was not so before. There’s no such thing. It is the bloody business which informs/ Thus to mine eyes.” (2.1.45-48) After Duncan's death, Macbeth sends murderers to kill Banquo. He does this because Banquo may be suspicious of Duncan's death because he was there to receive the prophecy from the witches in Macbeth. Once the Murderers arrive after the deed is done they are both still covered in blood. This bothers Macbeth, which leads him to point out the blood “There’s blood on thy face.” (3.4.13) The murderer informs Macbeth that the blood is Banquo’s. While Lady Macbeth is not bothered by blood when she is awake, she can not get away from it while she sleeps. “Here’s the smell of the blood still, All the perfumes of/ Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.” (5.1.42-43) The blood is always present and permanent in her dreams, this eventually leads her to kill herself because it became so