How does Shakespeare keep his audience from losing all sympathy for and interest in Macbeth?
How does Shakespeare keep his audience from losing all sympathy for and interest in Macbeth in spite of Macbeth’s increasing viciousness? Were you in sympathy with Macbeth throughout the play, or was there a point at which you lost sympathy? If so, where? Thanks
Try these links for a concise and proper answer to your question :
http://www.bookrags.com/Macbeth
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/mac/
http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/macbeth/
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-65.html
http://www.novelguide.com/macbeth/index.html
http://www.campusnut.com/book.cfm?article_id=333
http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmMacbeth02.asp
http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/macbeth
http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barrons/macbeth.asp
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augie6_1 said :
September 23, 2009 at 7:17 am
I think you do lose sympathy for Macbeth. He does descend into evil.
While "equivocation" is referenced explicitly in the play (check out the porter scene), it can be considered the entire unspoken foundation for Macbeth’s thoughts and actions. Equivocation goes a long way to explain Macbeth’s descent into uncontrollable evil: was Macbeth’s destiny decided by the witches or himself? It all comes back to the question of whether man can ever actively choose evil, or if he simply falls into it when he’s not paying enough attention. This is the stuff of good play-writing, but it was also an essential question to get the folks of England at the time to ask themselves, for the sake of their threatened king – and their own souls.
From Shmoop/Macbeth
References :
http://www.shmoop.com/intro/literature/william-shakespeare/macbeth.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shmoop.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Cuckoo said :
September 23, 2009 at 7:31 am
Try these links for a concise and proper answer to your question :
http://www.bookrags.com/Macbeth
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/mac/
http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/macbeth/
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-65.html
http://www.novelguide.com/macbeth/index.html
http://www.campusnut.com/book.cfm?article_id=333
http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmMacbeth02.asp
http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/macbeth
http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barrons/macbeth.asp
References :
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