Macbeth and Its Relation to Essay

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" (1.1.12). This elimination of distinction is later echoed by Macbeth, who is on his way back from the battlefield. Already disorder has crept into his mind. "So foul and fair a day I have not seen," he states (1.3.39). Rather than exulting in his victory on the battlefield, he appears to be troubled. He is in danger of losing his sense of order and value even before he meets the witches. They use his weakness to compel him to overturn his reason and pursue his ambition.

His mental and moral health is not helped any by his wife, who renounces her femininity (and ends up losing her mind): "Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here." (1.5.47-8). She prays for a spirit of cruelty, knowing for well that their ambition can only be satisfied through cruelty. After the murder is committed, both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth and seemingly stunned by what they've done. Lady Macbeth states that "it will make us mad" (2.2.

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50) if they think too much on what they have done. Murder awakens her conscience. It kills Macbeth's.

The pricking of one's conscience and the killing of another may easily relate to today's world, in which transcendentals are frequently denied for ambition's sake. As wars wage in the Middle East, the good, the true, and the beautiful are never cited as motivations for battle. Instead, subterfuge and cruelty are appealed to. In some, the voice of conscience is awoken. In others, the voice of conscience is drowned. Macbeth shows in the first three Acts what happens when one rejects the established order and instigates rebellious revolution. Violence becomes more and more senseless, and nihilistic attitudes prevail in those who lose sight of the good. Today's audiences could learn from Macbeth to resist the temptations of the witches/war mongers.

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