Macbeth's descent into darkness

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Anugrah Navitt

Macbeth’s descent into darkness

Macbeth the most famous play of Shakespeare well read throughout the world due to its brilliant presentation of a heroic and villainous General of King Duncan. The main aim of Shakespeare was to bring the attention of the London people to the Scottish history as no one was interested in it those days. He creates a man who is ambitious to gain greater happiness losing all his humanitarian ethics. He kills his king and his friend and later many innocent men, women and children were slaughtered by him. This play leaves us with so many unanswered questions that why did Macbeth kill his king? Was it only to get the crown, why does he kill his innocent friend Banquo and then the killings of the people goes on for no specific reason;? Why did he commit so much of evil? Was it because of his fate pronounced by the evil witches? Was this reason enough for so much of bloodshed? Yet just as Macbeth himself is a traitor—to his king, his friends, his country, and to God—so, too, is the play steeped in both evil and betrayal….The prime importance of the witches, in this play, is in no way extrinsic: Macbeth is drawn to them, and they appear to him, because the evil aspects of his nature. In this play it can be seen how Shakespeare’s mind is meandering to different directions yet steady in his thoughts when he opens the play with a supernatural entrance of the three witches in the wasteland of Scotland blending a concoction of insects and reptiles in the middle of the night amidst thunder and storm. This has some resemblance with Hamlet as the ghost is replaced by the witches in Macbeth. The witches inculcate a criminal idea into the mind of Macbeth that took the shape of lust, power and greed to become the king of Scotland; they impregnated a sinister idea in his mind but they never mentioned that he should murder the king in order to achieve his goals. The special popularity of Hamlet and Macbeth is due in part to some of these common characteristics, notably to the fascination of the supernatural, the absence of the spectacle of extreme undeserved suffering,…The reader who looks unwillingly Lago gazes at Lady Macbeth in awe, because though she is dreadful she is also sublime. The whole tragedy is sublime. In this, however, and in other respects, Macbeth makes an impression quite different from that of Hamlet. Impressed by the ideas given by the witches Macbeth and his wife Lady Macbeth both succumb to the thoughts and murder the king; ensuing this they are hounded by their own trepidation turning into hallucination that would further horrify them and lead them to insanity and finally they meet their ultimate fate of Macbeth being killed and his wife commits suicide; this play is a wonderful example of tragic irony created by Shakespeare that plays with the emotions of the viewers and its readers. However this evil installed in Macbeths mind by the witches had sundry feeling in him with crime at one hand and his dedication to the king on the other; creating a psychological war in his mind. The character of Macbeth detaches him from other Shakespearean villains; Macbeth is stubborn he persistently chases his evil desires at any cost without realizing the consequences of what he had made up in his mind to accomplish. The irony of the play is despite of his bloody thoughts in his mind he is instead decorated by the king especially when the bloodied captain arrives and speaks well about both the generals Macbeth and Banquo how valiantly they fought against the Norwegian army and won. Macbeth was presented as a hero and the title of the executed thane of Cawdor was given to him as further adornment of his valiance, Macbeth is shown as a violent man as often he enters the kings court drenched in blood of the enemies and of his own blood an indication to his loyalty to the king; this was the greatest error of the king not apprehending what was cooking in the mind of Macbeth and he granted all praise to him as a gift for his prowess and heroic actions in the war. This courageous hero was unsure to execute his plans due to his two conflicting thoughts in his internal conscious of allegiance to the king; and his ambition and greed of power his external apparition.

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Anugrah Navitt (May-2024). Macbeth's descent into darkness. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 9(5), b757-b764. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2405195.pdf

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