Macbeth Commentary
In the play Macbeth written by William Shakespeare, the author makes the current of events work out together to make the play a tragedy. From the beginning of the play we know that Macbeth is a great warrior when he is at battle. Macbeth is good at what he does. He can kill men with ease, be he is also a great philosophical man. In Act I scene iii after Macbeth had just gotten through slaying soldiers, he looks around and says to himself "so foul and fair a day I have not seen." He is covered in blood and guts from the soldiers that he had just killed, and sees the beauty in the world. In act I scene iii Macbeth finds himself contemplating why he should kill king Duncan in his soliloquy that he says to himself. His wife leaves the room after they had just finished having a discussion with his wife weather or not to murder Duncan, and he is there in his house in solitude, while his mind goes into a state of paranoia. Macbeth knows that he has to go through with the murder now because his ambition to do the evil task is great, but he knows that this will be his destruction. "Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other," he cannot get away from it, he has to do what he has t
Macbeth's life was going on physically but not mentally. After the murder his care for all things ceased to exist. "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other side." This metaphor portrays Macbeth's characteristic as what he is: a tragic hero. "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent" uses touch imagery by going with a previous statement that he had said (horsed upon the sightless couriers). He has no spur to tap at the side of his horse to get it started up. He has nothing left to start him except his ambition. "Which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other side" tells that when he tries to jump onto his "horse" he will miss and land on the other side, which will be his destruction. He could not escape from what he had to do, it was going to be what would destroy him, it was his hamartia. Macbeth used the technique of metaphor in saying "that we but teach bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor." All actions that one does come back to you the inventor in one form or another, so Macbeth knows that if he goes through with the murder, the evil deed will just come back to him. The metaphor Macbeth uses in his soliloquy "that tears shall drown th
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