Is Macbeth wholly evil?
'Macbeth' is one of Shakespeare's shortest and most compact tragedies, and because of this fast pace, Macbeth himself is the only character to be fully developed, the other characters existing to help the audience understand the changes in Macbeth's personality from play start to end. This 'centering' on Macbeth throughout the play is fascinating, for Macbeth's character descends from being a noble and valient general in the Scottish army, to being known as nothing more than a mercilous butcher. The play has many themes and images running through it, but they all return to the main confliction, which is good versus evil. This 'battle' also takes place within Macbeth's character, and the inner turmoil he experiences is reflected in the many soliloquys he speaks throughout the play. Like all of Shakespeare's tragedies, 'Macbeth' was written in the Jacobean era, and the anxieties experienced by the characters in the play about the stability of their state would have related to the fears of the audience at that time, an audience that would have included King James I, who was afraid of the possibility of civil war in his kingdom, which he him felt to be the worst evil. The play opens in a scene of darkness
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Approximate Word count = 1311
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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