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“Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep” (2, 2, 47) These are words
speaking of an evil person. As much of the play Macbeth is about. The play
starts with evil, the three witches burrying different wierd objects. As well as
throughout the majority of the play, evil is the basis of all within this story.
The blood in this story is evil. And I don’t mean the blood which pours from a
dying king. I mean blood in the sense of gore, and violence. The whole play it
self is full of fights. The plot goes from a fight to a scence that plans a
fight, to a fight, to a scene with more planning or reflection. It’s a viscious
cycle in this play. It’s all violence. I suppose that would be ok if your making
an action movie staring Arnold Schwarzeneger, but this is supposed to be a
classic, a tragedy, the only tragedy was that it sucked. A playwrite such as
Shakespeare wouldn’t have wrote a play of just violence.
He actually has good
content in his plays. Although there is a bit of good content in this play.
There’s just no transition of it within the play. It hardly makes any sense. All
of this further makes me believe that there are scenes missing. The witches are
pure evil as well. they are the ones who filled Macbeth’s head with all these
visions of power. Which in turn transformed Macbeth into a psychotic killing
machine. Before he met the witches, he was an innocent warrior, an honorable
fighter of the king. But once the witches filled him with greed, he no longer
was a loyalist of the king. He in a short period of time pulled a hundred and
eighty degree turn and did the furthest thing from loyal he possibly could of
done to the king, he killed him in his sleep. And if that isn’t evil enough, he
blamed it on two loyal, innocent gaurds, and slaughtered them on the spot. Lady
Macbeth is as well pure evil. She is the persuassion behind Macbeth.
He would
never of murdered Duncan if Lady Macbeth hadn’t persuaded him to. Macbeth was
too full o’ the milk of human kindness. Perhaps Macbeth would have received the
throne loyaly and honorably to begin with. Many times Macbeth had tried to back
down from killing Duncan, but Lady Macbeth wouldn’t of let that happen. She made
fun of him, called him down. She did what was necessary to keep him from
chickening out. Perhaps Macbeth did whatever she told him to because of sex.
Lady Macbeth certainly is made out to be a very sexy woman in the play. She may
have used her powers of sex to persuade her husband to perform the irreversible
deeds.
The murder of Duncan caused a chain effect on Macbeth, making it
necessary (in Macbeth’s eyes) to kill Banquo, Macduff’s wife and children, and
all the other innocent casualties. Although there are many evil objects in this
play, the most evil of them all is greed. No matter who was more influenced by
this power, Lady Macbeth to become queen or Macbeth to become king, it caused
this whole predicament. If Macbeth didn’t care at all about becoming the king,
he probably wouldn’t have murdered Duncan to become king, and to later have his
life fall apart. Throughout the play Macbeth, there were many very evil people,
places, and things. The evil in in the play was a domino effect. Starting with
the withches, and ending with Macduff taking Macbeth’s head. The evil, be it the
witches, his wife, or greed, ended it with a blood bath of revenge.
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