Comments on: How does Shakespeare keep his audience from losing all sympathy for and interest in Macbeth? http://firstworst.com/blog/34/how-does-shakespeare-keep-his-audience-from-losing-all-sympathy-for-and-interest-in-macbeth The View from the Bottom Sat, 19 May 2012 11:58:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Cuckoo http://firstworst.com/blog/34/how-does-shakespeare-keep-his-audience-from-losing-all-sympathy-for-and-interest-in-macbeth#comment-13068 Cuckoo Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:31:59 +0000 http://firstworst.com/blog/34/how-does-shakespeare-keep-his-audience-from-losing-all-sympathy-for-and-interest-in-macbeth#comment-13068 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<br><b>References : </b><br> 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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]]> By: augie6_1 http://firstworst.com/blog/34/how-does-shakespeare-keep-his-audience-from-losing-all-sympathy-for-and-interest-in-macbeth#comment-13067 augie6_1 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:17:59 +0000 http://firstworst.com/blog/34/how-does-shakespeare-keep-his-audience-from-losing-all-sympathy-for-and-interest-in-macbeth#comment-13067 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<br><b>References : </b><br>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 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

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