Macbeth Essay
"We are repelled by Macbeth's violent and destructive course of action, yet strangely we never lose sympathy for him." To what extent do you agree?
Macbeth's character is straightforward and uncomplicated. He is a man who allows himself to be tempted into committing a sin which he knows in advance to be abominable, and thereafter suffers the torment of seeing the consequences of his evil action. Macbeth is basically a good man lured into wickedness who suffers appallingly because he still has goodness in him and has been described as too full of "the milk of human kindness". Our tragic hero' mostly succeeds in making himself a monster' yet by the end of the novel we never lose sympathy for him because we know very well that he had not always been so heartless and cold-hearted enough to have done these acts of murder.
The feeling toward Macbeth and reaction to the end of the play differ amongst readers. Although everyone perceives the horrifying tone that ends the play, the......
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