Macbeth Essay
Having submitted to his ambition to gain the Crown by whatever means, Macbeth murders Duncan, a guest in his castle, and thus relentlessly commits him to a career of Evil that leads him to ruin. He can never turn back and seek redemption. Once set upon his course, he moves from one act of violence to another in an effort to protect himself from inevitable disaster. Fear and hatred provoke him to plot the murder of Banquo and his son, for Banquo cannot help suspecting Macbeth's complicity in Duncan's death, and Banquo's offspring instead of Macbeth's are destined to rule. Enraged at Macduff's failure to support him, he sends assassins to wipe out his family and by this act of cruelty ...
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chances of gaining the throne, for the witched echo things in the dark recesses of his mind, but he shrinks from the violence required to seize the Crown. He is willing to show patience and wait, "If chance will have me King, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir" 25. He is near of kin to the King and under the laws of Scotland he may be chosen to succeed Duncan. It is only when Duncan creates his son Malcom Prince of Cumberland and nominates his as his successor that Macbeth is ripe for murder.
Lady Macbeth is made of sterner stuff than her husband, but she is something more than cold-blooded virago portrayed by some actress. Swept away with ambition for her husband's aggrandizement, and with an opportunity suddenly placed before her, she is willing to stifle every good impulse that might keep him from the Crown that means the supreme accomplishment of her hopes for him and for herself. In her monologue in Act I, Scene 5, she deliberately chooses Evil as her course and ...
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