Tradgedy In Macbeth Essay, Research Paper

Harmonizing to the classical position, calamity should elicit feelings of commiseration and fright in the audience. Does Macbeth make this? Tragedy has most decidedly influenced the spectator? s ideas on Macbeth within this drama. In Shakespeare? s Macbeth, the audience sees a gradual dislocation in the character of Macbeth himself, due to the tragic events that unfold during the drama. This has a direct consequence on the audience? s positions and ideas of Macbeth, therefore making commiseration and fright within the audience. Macbeth, being a adult male and a human being himself, is in-clined to some signifiers of enticement, to which adult male himself has rather frequently succumbed. The guilt that Mac-beth experiences after the decease of his darling King Duncan besides experienced in every homo? s life, gives the spectator much commiseration for Macbeth, as they besides felt sorrow for the incorrect result in yielding to tempta-tion. The blade looking in forepart of Macbeth & # 8217 ; s eyes during [ II.i.37 ] gives both fright and commiseration for Macbeth. The decease of Banquo, which was ordered by Macbeth, gives the audience fright for the utmost lengths Mac-beth will travel to. Then merely a scene subsequently the audience witnesses a paranoid Macbeth visualises the? shade? of Banquo. The audience felt sorrow and commiseration for Macbeth, after the proclamation that his married woman had died. Finally in the decease of Macbeth at the concluding? of the drama, the audience has a concluding ounce of commiseration to give to Macbeth.Macbeth and Banquo were on return from their great triumph, when stopped by three enchantresss [ I.iii. ] . The enchantresss had a? prognostication? that involved Macbeth and the governing throne of Scotland. The enchantresss run into Mac-beth and are ready to discourse his hereafter, which is merely known by themselves. & # 8221 ; All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee Thane of Glamis! ? All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! ? All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be King afterlife! ? & # 8221 ; Three enchantresss [ I.iii.49-50 ] Macbeth being in a province of daze and confusion is in some manner attracted to this prognostication ; he is lured by the idea that he will be male monarch, and male monarch he shall be really soon. & # 8221 ; Stay, you imperfect talkers, state me more. By Sinel? s decease I know I am Thane of Clamis But how of Cawdor? The thane of Cawdor lives, A comfortable gentleman ; and to be king Stands non within the chance of belief? & # 8221 ; Macbeth [ I.iii.70-74 ] The audience sees how Macbeth is introduced into taking over the throne of his great friend Duncan. This unleashes commiseration and fright within the audience, because they felt for a adult male yielding to dangerous enticement. The events in which took topographic point after this addition our commiseration of Macbeth. The audience sees a grown, baronial and mighty officer degraded into a pool of huge guilt.Macbeth was, shortly after the murdering incident, driven insane by the huge guilt produced by his shriveled scruples. The sticker that was used in the violent death of King Duncan haunted him before the slaying took topographic point. This calamity in the drama gives us both fright of where the blade came from and commiseration for Macbeth & # 8217 ; s character that had degraded to such a point that he has become paranoid. & # 8221 ; Is this a sticker which I see before me, The grip toward my manus? Come, allow me seize thee. I have thee non, and yet I see thee still. Art 1000 non, fatal vision, reasonable To experiencing as to spy? Or art 1000 but A sticker of head, a false creative activity, Continuing from the heat-oppressed encephalon? ? & # 8221 ; [ II.i.33-39 ] The events before the slaying of Duncan, which include Macbeth? s fright of killing Duncan, the timing at-which it will take topographic point ; all of which these things made the audience fearful. Macbeth seemed nervous in a manner, for he loved his male monarch and would make anything in his strength to protect him and his household: & # 8221 ; The Se

rvice and loyalty?your throne and state, children and servants, Which do but what they should by doing everything Safe toward your love and hon-our?”Macbeth [I.iv.22-27]Macbeth knew that Duncan was a kind man, and Duncan thought that others were like him (as noble and trustworthy). After the death of Duncan, (another tragedy) there was a sense of fear, of wether or not Mac-beth would be able to get away with his crime, and ether Lady Macbeth?s plan of setting up the soldiers with the murder would work or fail. Macbeth had succumbed to grievous temptation and for that the audience gave pity and disgust to Macbeth, a man so desperate. After Macbeth had killed Duncan (to acquire his throne), he was inclined to take away another man?s life: Banquo. Banquo was seen as a threat to Macbeth’s reign, for Banquo knew of the witches? prophecies (he rode beside him at the time) and had suspicious after the death of Duncan, that Macbeth was to blame. Macbeth disposed of Banquo not by doing it himself (of course not! he was in deep enough strife as it was, and he should not get his ?hands? dirty over such a matter) but by hiring ?hit men? to do it for him. The kill-ing of Banquo went ahead as planned, and was performed in such a cowardly manner, that the tragedy of this event made the audience fearful of what had become of Macbeth, and piteous of what a man such as Macbeth had stooped to, in the creation his throne situated so, that no one else could reach it. His own act of self-glory had reached a peak in evil, he was required to do more evil to help his cause, and because of this, the audience felt great fear of and pity for Macbeth. Macbeth’s conscience had once more played a trick on Macbeth. Whilst Macbeth was hosting a dinner, he saw Banquo?s ghost sitting in his chair. Macbeth became hysterical, cursing his fellow lords and causing a scene. Macbeth was feeling such immense guilt that his conscience had repossessed his soul to make him paranoid with guilt and hallucinate. Because of this, the audience felt much pity for Macbeth.The death of Lady Macbeth in its own right was a large tragedy for Macbeth. The audience saw how when he received news of her death, he was shattered, realizing how much harm he had done to his world, and what his world had come to. He describes how life has become a succession of meaningless days, due to the carnage he has brought upon his world.”To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death…”Macbeth [V.v.19-23]Finally in the last scene of ?Macbeth? the audience saw how Macbeth was slaughtered by his fate at the hands of Macduff. Macbeth’s reign of death, evil, terror and carnage came to an end. At the end, Macbeth was not triumphant, instead defeated. The audience felt pity for Macbeth, even though the audience knew he had done so much evil, but we saw how Macbeth’s soul was taken over by an evil presence so that he was unable to think or act in a noble way. The audience felt pity because he never got to taste what real “ruling” was like. He was full of so much guilt that the audience could not help but also feel remorseful and piteous of him. Shakespeare has finely crafted Macbeth as a character that the audience feels pity for and fearf of. Macbeth brought so much tragedy, but yet inside his evil heart, we saw room for forgiveness. The viewer saw a noble officer turn into a tyrant, full of guilt for his actions and full of regret. The audience could not help but feel sorry for him. Macbeth is a character who arouses much pity and fear through the tragedies that he is in-volved in.