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Macbeth – victim or villain?
- Characterization of Macbeth.
- Victim or villain.
- Is “Macbeth” a moral play?
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Macbeth is a complex character who is constantly changing both personally and emotionally throughout the play. I would set his character into two boxes, one before he commits the murder and one after.
Before the murder he is mentally stapled and a brave warrior and leader. The braveness can be seen in act 1, scene 2 where the captain describes Macbeth's actions on the battlefield. I quote “For brave Macbeth—well he deserves that name.”.
But after he murdered the king, he finds himself caught in a feeling of evil that he can not escape.
His actions go from being heroic to more cowardly as he continues to murder and terrorize others to hold on to the power which he receives from the king's death.
In act 3 scene 4 Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost “Avaunt, and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee! / Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; / Thou hast no speculation in those eyes / Which thou dost glare with.”
Here it shows that although Macbeth now is a king, he struggles to escape his guilty conscience. Macbeth can not command his own emotions and feels irrevocably set on this course of action. The others thinks that he is going crazy.
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