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Fear: A Persistent Torture for Macbeth
One can affirm that Macbeth changes from a conscious honorable nobleman to a pitiless cruel murderer. At the beginning of the play, it becomes clear that Macbeth is aware of the terrible deed that implies killing Duncan; consequently, he fears eternal damnation for committing that crime. Regardless of such fears, he still kills the king, which leads his fears to grow stronger, as it can be perceived throughout most of the play. Although, after meeting with the witches for the second time, he starts feeling more confident and invulnerable, his fears reappear again when he has to face Macduff; therefore, it is a fact that fear becomes an ever-present torture that chases after Macbeth and does not leave him in peace.
The first time that Macbeth manifests the fears that he feels towards killing the king is in the First Act:
…why do I yield to that suggestion
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
Against the use of nature? Present fears
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man… (Act I, sce
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Still, another time in which Macbeth feels afraid is when he attends a banquet with the lords. It is a fact that Macbeth feels so terrified that he even has visions, as when he sees the ghost of Banquo sat in his place. Here, we notice that Macbeth is still conscious of the deed he has done; that is the reason why he says to Lady Macbeth “… you can behold such sights, / And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, / When mine is blanched with fear” (III,iv,114 -116). Clearly, those lines mean that Lady Macbeth is so evil that she does not worry about the murder of Duncan, while Macbeth does know that he has done wrong; therefore, he feels afraid about it. In addition, Macbeth becomes fearful because he has no experience in being a killer; he does not know how to handle his deed since he was not malicious: “My strange and self abuse / is the initiate fear that wants hard use, / We are yet but young in deed” (III,iv,142 – 144). Moreover, after meeting the witches, Macbeth feels fearless since they told him that no man born out of a woman was going to defeat him. However, his fears reappear when he is about to fight with Macduff, by the end of the play. When Macbeth realizes that Macduff was taken out of the womb of his mother prematurely, he says: “Accursed be that tongue that tells me so, / For it hath cowed my better part of man…/…I’ll not fight with thee” (V, viii, 17,18,22). Clearly, the fact that Macbeth does not want to fight with Macduff demonstrates that he fears being killed, which proves th
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