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Reading Report on Macbeth
Explore Tragedies within Characters
As a frontrunner in the due course of Renaiance, Shakespeare devoted himself into the lofty cause of
liberation of long-restrained humanity, with his pen portraying different characters featured by different humane sentiments.I was overwhelmed by the triumphant ecstasy to have got an acce toward the Masterpiece Macbeth, one of the greatest tragedies of William Shakespeare.Upon finishing reading Macbeth, I was presented at the rim of unfathomable aby of humanity----desire, ambition, sympathy and justice-----a full display of all emotions and feelings hiding deeply within the mankind, of good and evil, noble and humble, graceful and disgraceful.For Macbeth, I can detect the degradation of Macbeth, the main character, from a national hero to a mercile tyrant,with Lady Macbeth beingthe instigator of the atrocious plans that lead to her husband’s Kingship.Other figures under Shakespeare represent differentiated spiritual orientations, all constituting the miniature of the society------pluralistic in human nature but limited by social moral strength.The Main Idea of Macbeth
The play opens with Macbeth and Banquo, two of the Scottish King Duncan’s generals returning from
battle when they encounter three witches in the woods, who tell Macbeth of how he will become the Thane of Cawdor and then the King of Scotland, and for Banquo, they prophesize that he will beget the line of Scottish Kings, though he will never become king himself.Macbeth witnees how the prophecy comes out into prospect with the announcement to him to be the Thane of Cawdor.Lady Macbeth is very sure of her husband’s ascension of the throne by murdering Duncan on that very night immediately upon Macbeth’s returning to his castle.The two plan to get Duncan’s chamberlains drunk enough that they will not remember the evening and
blame them for the murder, after which Duncan’s sons flee the country, afraid for their own lives.And
consequently, their evacuation convinces the nobilities of their crime to have killed their respected
father.Immediately, Macbeth’s misgivings and trust in the prophecies force his hand in the murder of Banquo and his son Fleance as well, afraid that his heirs will seize the throne.Succefully killing Banquo, the murderers fail to kill Fleance.Macbeth turns to the witches for further prophecies.In light of the threat posed by the poibility that
Macduff may take the throne, he decided to kill Macduff.But Macduff has fled to England to join Malcom, pledging to take revenge on the tyrant.Macbeth, however, shocked by his wife’s going mad due to her failure to wash the blood on her hands,waits on the castle for his opponents.The prophecies have foretold Macbeth’s
invulnerability in face of Birnam Wood coming to Dunsinane Castle.Under the cover of boughs cut from Birnam Wood, Macduff’s forces overwhelmed Macbeth’s, and handed the crown back to Malcolm, the rightful heir to the throne.Flashes of Tragedy between the Lines
“Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.”This has transparently clarifies the tragedy of Macbeth, whose actions result in an extreme calamity leading to his downfall.There is a drastic change in his fortunes due to his lust for power, which degenerates him from a celebrated hero to a tyrant and finally meets his end.Let’s explore howMacbeth is a tragedy.1.Macbeth beingthe maker of his own tragedy
The three witches speak highly of Macbeth and foretell that he will be the Thane of Cawdor, but continuously give false indications, leading to Macbeth’s betrayals from his moral strength.In my opinion, it does not matter whether
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these indications are right or wrong, but whether you choose to believe or not that really counts.In that period, superstitious mythology was of vital importance in supporting the throne in favor of the King, including the rigid hierarchy.The succeful governing of the people and stable sovereignty mostly based on the invisible belief in the so-called “God” and his willing, which had been entitled to the King.Hence it’s not the witches sow the seed of treason in Macbeth’s mind but Macbeth does himself.The only function of the witches is to spell out what Macbeth is thinking.“Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign of state, servants of fame, and servants of busine.”Those evil thoughts are like readily placed bombs, whenever there is a trigger, they will explode into a me in humanity, with bombing pieces blurring the bottom line of man’s principles.Therefore, Macbeth establishes his own fame and then ruined them in ambitious pursue of power.Here I find a contradiction in Macbeth’s character.He is ambitious, but he wants to achieve his ambition through proper methods;he refuses to play tricks, but he murders the King.He is full of paradoxes, the same as everyone else.“If chance will have me King, why, chance may crown me, without my stir.”In the beginning he intends not to murder Duncan but finally he did, tearing his long-cherished desire into pieces.This is definitely a tragedy made by himself.2.Lady Macbeth being the Xiaohe, the acceory to the tragedy
A saying in Chinese culture, “either succe or failure boils down the same person”, describes a historical figure, Xiaohe, who helped establish reputation of Hanxin, and subsequently ruined it through schemes and tricks.This agrees quite a lot with Lady Macbeth.“I have given suck, and know how tender it is to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his bonele gums, and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this.” Lady Macbethwas so fierce and antagonistic that she has been always abetting her husband to take the throne.She is also a recognizable force in the transforming of Macbeth, helping him to gradually climb on the ladder to be the King.It is Lady Macbeth who actively encourages Macbeth to commit the “ghostly deed”.She challenges his masculinity with a battering of arguments and stinging words.Later she entices him by saying that the blame of the murder could be put on the king’s guards.But all the deeds turn out to be a bubble.“Behind a succeful man, there is an abled woman”, then “behind anunsucceful man, there is anunsucceful woman” likewise.Women can be both powerful but ruinous.When it comes to marriage, Iwill consider my wife’s opinion objectively, but there shall always be an independent sound echoing in my mind.Neither men nor women can be slaved on thought, every individual should be sober-minded when in disputes.Therefore, I take this aspect as one of the implications in the book----Be a man, no one can dominate you if there is a star sparkling in your heart.If you are solid enough, no one can handicap your soul, whether it be of the God, the Church.Besides, there are other elements that make the drama a tragedy.Macbeth is a victim of supernatural conspiracy, the three witches.After taking the throne, Macbeth is intoxicated by the alcohol of power and evolves into a tyrant instead of focusing on the governing to win the support of the people.“The water supporting a ship can also upset it”.Utter chaos finally declares his penalty.There Is a Macbeth in Everyone
Macbeth is a character full of humane emotions, and is conspicuous in the internally psychological contradiction, which in turn intensifies his image as a “real person”.Sadne, dismay, happine, ambitions, desires and such feelings within a man constitutes a conceptual man, as we all are today.In this pluralistic society, people are often characterized by differed features.On the one hand, it is the complexity of characteristics that makes a vivid and living world;on the other hand, the liberation of humanity has been flourishing along with the course of time, yet the values of man are still under exploration.There’s a Macbeth within both you and me, whether you know about him or not.
