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Macbeth

 

            " (Act 1, Scene 1, Line 10) Macbeth lets the supernatural elements of Macbeth, takes over his life. The witches make Macbeth depend on their prophecies to live out his desires. Macbeth's visions reveal his anxieties toward his murderous deeds. The supernatural events in Macbeth take over the sanity in his life. .
             The witches make Macbeth depend on their prophecies to live out his desires. At the beginning of the play the witches predict Macbeth will some day be king. He then proceeds to write a letter to his wife, who convinces him to kill the current king, Duncan. When Macbeth becomes king he begins to use his royal power to protect himself from his "enemies." Since the witches were correct in him becoming king, he decides to visit them to find out the worst that could happen. "And betimes I will, to the weird sisters./ More shall they speak; for now I am bent to know,/ By the worst means, the worst. For mine own good/ All causes shall give way." (Act 3, Scene 4, Lines 133-136) The prophecies revealed are to beware Macduff, no child born of woman can harm him, and he will be safe until Birnam Woods comes to Dunsinane Hill. He holds onto these prophecies until the very end, until his own death.
             Macbeth's visions reveal his anxieties toward his murderous deeds. When Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth to kill Duncan he has a hallucination. He sees a dagger covered in blood floating down the hall toward Duncan's room. This hallucination shows Macbeth's guilt of murdering Duncan. As he becomes more apt to kill for what he meant, it backfires. When he hires two assassins to kill Banquo, he does not expect the ramifications of this deed. At diner that night Banquo's ghost appears to Macbeth twice. Macbeth is startled by his ghost, might seem ruthless, but in the end he deep down still feels guilty for murdering his best friend. "Avaunt! And quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee!/ Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold,/ Thou hast no speculation in those eyes/ Which thou dost glare with.


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