William Shakespeare's Macbeth
Macbeth was a “butcher”, however he became that way as a result of
Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth was a fiend-like queen whose evilness
declined after the murders. In the end of the play, however, Macbeth’s
transformation was complete and he was a butcher.
Main Body Topic 1
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Macbeth’s transition from good to evil by Lady Macbeth:
· Ambition was his only reason for killing the king – “I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition”
· Lady Macbeth convinced him to kill the King – Accused Macbeth of
being a “coward”, questions his “love” for her and his manliness “be
so much more the man”.
· Macbeth becomes a “butcher” when he no longer needs Lady Macbeth –
says that Lady Macbeth should “be innocent of the knowledge”
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Lady Macbeth’s evil nature and role in the killing of Duncan and
Macbeth’s transition to evil:
· She summons evil spirits to make her evil – Lady Macbeth asks the
spirits to “unsex” her and to fill her “from the crown to the toe,
top-full Of direst cruelty”.
· Contrary to Macbeth, the crimes make Lady Macbeth weaker and she
feels sorry for her actions “the thane of Fife had a wife, where is
she now?”
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Towards the end of the play Macbeth’s butcher like nature is shown by:
· the fact that he shows no mercy and kills Macduff’s family with no
remorse – Macbeth no longer acts on his thoughts or feels remorse for
killing people “from this moment, The very firstlings of my heart
shall be The firstlings of my hand”
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... of my heart shall be / The firstlings of my hand”.
Macbeth’s cruel temperament is also made clear by the end of the play
when even though he knows that he will die he asks himself “why should
I play the Roman fool, and die / On mine own sword? Whiles I see
lives, the gashes / Do better upon them.”
The changes in the character of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are shown
throughout the play of “Macbeth” and so when Malcolm describes Macbeth
as a “butcher” and Lady Macbeth as his “fiend-like queen” although at
some point in the play they were, Macbeth became the way he was as a
result of Lady Macbeth’s evilness, which in turn caused he to go
insane. Given this, the description of the two characters, Macbeth and
Lady Macbeth ware in many ways accurate and so they truly did deserve
to be known as the terrible people they were.
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