Examples Of Authorial Attitudes In Macbeth
William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth uses characterization to reveal the following authorial attitude: hallucinations illumine the characters’ murderous universes. Attitude, personal thoughts, and speech respectively reflect the authorial attitude.
Shakespeare uses attitude to portray Macbeth’s dagger episode as a murderous epiphany. Macbeth’s violence initially faces inner hesitance and indecisiveness: “If we should fail, -”(1.7.58). However, Macbeth gains animation as he psychologically hoists the symbolic dagger: “Is this a dagger which I see before me/The handle toward my hand…A dagger of the mind…this which I now draw,” (2-1-33-34,38,41). After psychologically holstering the dagger, Macbeth roams the area emotionally prepared and often eager to kill. For example, once Macbeth realizes that murdering Banquo could render benefit, he passionately and decisively …show more content…
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s reactions to blood underline inverse attitude changes. Macbeth moves from immeasurable guilt to callous killer, while Lady Macbeth starts as the callous killer and falls into a state of despair (Lowe 3661).
Ironically, as the play nears its end, Shakespeare portrays Macbeth’s murderous, bloody conscience as fully saturated: "Of all men else I have avoided thee: / But get thee back; my soul is too much charged / With blood of thine" (5.8.5-7). "Charged" means full and overburdened, and the "blood" connotes Macduff’s family’s murders, which overload Macbeth’s conscience. However, Macduff simply views murder’s physical components (i.e. his sword), and he refuses to accept consciences effects and hindrance: "My voice is in my sword, thou bloodier villain / Than terms can give thee out!" (5.8.7-8). Macduff’s physical perspective proves superior as he prevails murdering
Shakespeare uses attitude to portray Macbeth’s dagger episode as a murderous epiphany. Macbeth’s violence initially faces inner hesitance and indecisiveness: “If we should fail, -”(1.7.58). However, Macbeth gains animation as he psychologically hoists the symbolic dagger: “Is this a dagger which I see before me/The handle toward my hand…A dagger of the mind…this which I now draw,” (2-1-33-34,38,41). After psychologically holstering the dagger, Macbeth roams the area emotionally prepared and often eager to kill. For example, once Macbeth realizes that murdering Banquo could render benefit, he passionately and decisively …show more content…
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s reactions to blood underline inverse attitude changes. Macbeth moves from immeasurable guilt to callous killer, while Lady Macbeth starts as the callous killer and falls into a state of despair (Lowe 3661).
Ironically, as the play nears its end, Shakespeare portrays Macbeth’s murderous, bloody conscience as fully saturated: "Of all men else I have avoided thee: / But get thee back; my soul is too much charged / With blood of thine" (5.8.5-7). "Charged" means full and overburdened, and the "blood" connotes Macduff’s family’s murders, which overload Macbeth’s conscience. However, Macduff simply views murder’s physical components (i.e. his sword), and he refuses to accept consciences effects and hindrance: "My voice is in my sword, thou bloodier villain / Than terms can give thee out!" (5.8.7-8). Macduff’s physical perspective proves superior as he prevails murdering