Friday, November 25, 2011
Macbeth: The Man Who Threw Away His Soul
It's not the bloodshed that makes me feel like Macbeth is a tragedy. It's the loss of humanity that's so heartbreaking. All those lives would have been saved if Macbeth would have held on to his soul. At the begining, one couldn't help but to feel sympathatic towards him. He had guilt stronger than Lady Macbeth's. In confliction with his morality, he continued to massacre the innocent. He lost his wife, a dear friend (Banquo), and the devotion of his army. Didn't he realize it was all in vain? Does Macbeth stay a sympathetic characeter throughout the play or has he lost your sympathy?
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He never had my sympathy to begin with. His indecisiveness is what caused him to have his life recochet off into catostrofic doom. If he'd just let destiny take its course instead of doubting it, thus attempting to take it into his own hands, then maybe his future could have been more worth while. But no, he chose to add conflict... it's human nature.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I don't think he lost his soul. What he did lose was his mind. In the attempt to achieve power and acceptance from Lady Macbeth he went overboard and was driven by emotions instead of by thoughts. "Mind over Matter". I agree with Autumn as well, I didn't feel sympathy for the man. He had a choice, and he chose to listen to his wife. He had many chances to change his course, but he followed it.
ReplyDeleteWhen reading the play at first I did feel sympathy for him, because although his situation seems unreltable at times, it's every man's story to try to prove his identity. Macbeth seemed to me to find an outlet through war but continued being put down by his wife. But after I was done reading A.C. Bradley's interperations of the letter and conversation pertaining the planning of the kill, I lost all sympathy. As I thought about it through although Lady Macbeth did push him over the edge, it was Macbeth's hubris that was his real downfall.
ReplyDeleteWhen reading the play at first I did feel sympathy for him, because although his situation seems unreltable at times, it's every man's story to try to prove his identity. Macbeth seemed to me to find an outlet through war but continued being put down by his wife. But after I was done reading A.C. Bradley's interperations of the letter and conversation pertaining the planning of the kill, I lost all sympathy. As I thought about it through although Lady Macbeth did push him over the edge, it was Macbeth's hubris that was his real downfall.
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