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Macbeth’S Changing Fears - Paper

Macbeth’S Changing Fears

In the play Macbeth, Shakespeare plays upon many different human emotions. Shakespeare focuses these many emotions mainly in the character Macbeth. Shakespeare plays with a variety of emotions with Macbeth, but one emotion is clearly more predominate in Macbeth than any of the other emotions. This emotion is fear. Macbeth is afraid of many things in the play for a variety of reasons. Macbeth is afraid of his thoughts, what other think, his actions, the consequences of his actions, the future, Banquo, Fleance, death, and most importantly fate. Macbeth is even afraid of fear itself.
Not only is he afraid of these things but as the play progresses his fears change because of Macbeth’s ...

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in Act I and the second is in Act III.
In the first passage Macbeth says:
This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill,
Why hath it given me earnest of success,
Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor:
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? Present fears
Are less than horrible imaginings.
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical
Shakes so my single state of man that function
Is smothered in surmise, and nothing is
But what is not.
If chance will have me King, why,
Chance may crown me,
Without my stir. (Act I, scene III, line 130-143)
Macbeth has just been told that he is now Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth knows that not only did the witches promise that he would be Thane of Cawdor but also that he would be King. In the lines above Macbeth is debating whether the witches prophesy is meant to be good or evil. He ...

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Added: 9/10/2007 11:47:00 AM
Category: Arts
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 741
Pages: 3

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