Examples Of The Word Heart In Macbeth

Liliana Mojica
Morley
English II
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The Word “Heart” in Macbeth
As Theodore Parker once said, “Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.” All hearts start as all hearts do, with love and compassion just as they should. But as a heart grows and develops with the world and people around it, it is affected. The human heart will grow new feelings towards things and people. This changes the definition of what you thought of as a heart. Heart can be thought of as a persons feelings; love within a blink of an eye can transform into just a hollow muscular organ.
Something so beautiful turned into something so feelingless and frigid just as in the book Macbeth, when using the word heart the definition quickly became different between two particular characters,
It was the prophecies made by the witches that could have changed his heart most. The thought of power might have drove him crazy. Before the prophecies Macbeth was fine. Once he told his wife about the power he would soon receive, as Thane of Cawdor, her thoughts soon became his. The thoughts of killing hurt his heart, you can see as he stated "If good, why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature (Macbeth­I.iii.147­150)." This meaning the if being Thane of Cawdor is a good thing then why is he thinking about murdering
Duncan when the thought of doing such a thing scares him and makes heart race. Yet he killed
Duncan because the words his wife said to him, but still after the kill of Duncan, the King of

Scotland, it was not fully heartless. Soon her thoughts became his, but someone can not become heartless on his own it takes another to change another. His heart was not fully heartless until his wife,
Lady Macbeth, put evil heartless thoughts in his head. He soon became a heartless person, not caring what or who got hurt as he proclaims “From this moment the very firstlings of my heart shall be
With all her convincing of making death occur to move up. She told Macbeth to kill Duncan to receive power because she thought it would be the only way. The thought of power came into her head as quick as she turned Macbeth, her husband, heartless himself. She put awful thoughts of murder into her husband and made him commit murder and even though her husband was still scared she was not afraid to state "My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white (Lady Macbeth­II.ii.82­83)." This meaning that she too had blood on

her hands, but her heart was not weak like his. Yet, soon realizing what she had done to him she felt guilt. Guilt soon restored her heart into feelings because she knew what she had done. Her heart became better, but it was too late Macbeth was on a rampage and her heart could no longer handle it as the Doctor explained “What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged (Doctor­V.i.56­57).”
This meaning that her heart is carrying heavy weight. She died with a better heart but it was still wasn’t enough because she soon died with guilt and sadness in her heart.
Soon realizing that Macbeth could have not become so heartless without the evil thoughts of