Anger And Fear In Macbeth Research Paper
The Role of anger and fear in Macbeth
On a level of human hostility the play Macbeth focuses on Macbeth 's savage and insane rise to the top. The murder of King Duncan, his guiltless conscience, and his arrogant mentality grows more intense throughout the play. Anger is a strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one 's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury (dictionary.com). Anger is an emotion possessed by all mankind; it 's the amount of anger that one possesses that counts. Macbeth 's constant fear of being caught doing his evil deeds, fear becomes a motivating factor in the play. Macbeth 's fear of being caught causes him to feel threatened, and he becomes angry because he feels like a victim. Anger motivates Macbeth to do many things no matter if they are right or wrong because his judgment is blinded by rage. In the play Macbeth …show more content…
Macbeth is suffering from his sinful deeds and everything that is said or done is taken as a threat to Macbeth or an accusation of murder on Macbeth 's part where he is full of fearful thoughts about being found out. He is becoming another person, being eaten up by his own greed for power.
"His hubris is a vain attempt to code the moral universe in his own desires in order to secure himself against his fears; and as the play goes on, he falls increasingly into the mistrustful anxieties of the paranoid cycle, where the magical sense of omnipotence is haunted by its fellow contrary nightmare of impotence" (Turner, 1987).
From fear turn to ambition to arrogance then to insanity has taken a toll on Macbeth and has stripped him of his soul. Now he is just a force that is full of fear and anger motived by both fear and anger to do harm to any one he suspects of knowing his crimes.
Bibliography
Bloom, Harold. William Shakespeare Macbeth. New York:
On a level of human hostility the play Macbeth focuses on Macbeth 's savage and insane rise to the top. The murder of King Duncan, his guiltless conscience, and his arrogant mentality grows more intense throughout the play. Anger is a strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one 's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury (dictionary.com). Anger is an emotion possessed by all mankind; it 's the amount of anger that one possesses that counts. Macbeth 's constant fear of being caught doing his evil deeds, fear becomes a motivating factor in the play. Macbeth 's fear of being caught causes him to feel threatened, and he becomes angry because he feels like a victim. Anger motivates Macbeth to do many things no matter if they are right or wrong because his judgment is blinded by rage. In the play Macbeth …show more content…
Macbeth is suffering from his sinful deeds and everything that is said or done is taken as a threat to Macbeth or an accusation of murder on Macbeth 's part where he is full of fearful thoughts about being found out. He is becoming another person, being eaten up by his own greed for power.
"His hubris is a vain attempt to code the moral universe in his own desires in order to secure himself against his fears; and as the play goes on, he falls increasingly into the mistrustful anxieties of the paranoid cycle, where the magical sense of omnipotence is haunted by its fellow contrary nightmare of impotence" (Turner, 1987).
From fear turn to ambition to arrogance then to insanity has taken a toll on Macbeth and has stripped him of his soul. Now he is just a force that is full of fear and anger motived by both fear and anger to do harm to any one he suspects of knowing his crimes.
Bibliography
Bloom, Harold. William Shakespeare Macbeth. New York: