How Does Shakespeare Present Fear In Macbeth's Soliloquy
How does Macbeth show his fears in his use of soliloquys?
The play Macbeth by William Shakespeare is believed to have been written between 1603 and 1607, and is most commonly dated 1606. The tragedy is about a man named Macbeth who is told by three witches that he is going to become king. He does everything in his power to make the prophecies come true and he ends up killing the king, his best friend and his friend’s wife and children. When he is told that no one born naturally by a woman can kill him he felt invincible until someone macduff who wasn’t born naturally from a woman killed him. I will be focusing on how he portrays fear throughout the play in his soliloquys, a soliloquy is a device used in plays to show the characters inner …show more content…
“We still have judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice” Macbeth is saying that By committing violent crimes we only teach other people to commit violence, and the violence of our students will come back to plague us teachers. Justice, being equal to everyone he uses the verb handed to say that it will be easy for them to kill him because if he kills the king he deserves the maximum punishment no questions asked it is possible that Macbeth does not only want lady Macbeths respect but everyone else to basically he is saying what goes around always comes back around.
Macbeth starts to hallucinate a dagger lading him to kill Duncan “Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?” uses the verb towards to show that the dagger is inviting him in luring him to do the deed and this is the moment in the play when Macbeth had changed completely and gone evil this might be because the thought of power had gotten in to his head and it stared to control him and his thought the thing that makes the readers sick is the fact that he makes a decision to kill his own friend and
The play Macbeth by William Shakespeare is believed to have been written between 1603 and 1607, and is most commonly dated 1606. The tragedy is about a man named Macbeth who is told by three witches that he is going to become king. He does everything in his power to make the prophecies come true and he ends up killing the king, his best friend and his friend’s wife and children. When he is told that no one born naturally by a woman can kill him he felt invincible until someone macduff who wasn’t born naturally from a woman killed him. I will be focusing on how he portrays fear throughout the play in his soliloquys, a soliloquy is a device used in plays to show the characters inner …show more content…
“We still have judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice” Macbeth is saying that By committing violent crimes we only teach other people to commit violence, and the violence of our students will come back to plague us teachers. Justice, being equal to everyone he uses the verb handed to say that it will be easy for them to kill him because if he kills the king he deserves the maximum punishment no questions asked it is possible that Macbeth does not only want lady Macbeths respect but everyone else to basically he is saying what goes around always comes back around.
Macbeth starts to hallucinate a dagger lading him to kill Duncan “Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?” uses the verb towards to show that the dagger is inviting him in luring him to do the deed and this is the moment in the play when Macbeth had changed completely and gone evil this might be because the thought of power had gotten in to his head and it stared to control him and his thought the thing that makes the readers sick is the fact that he makes a decision to kill his own friend and