personality traits. i only understands taht he was loyal in the begining. help me please please please.
2006-12-02 12:30:46 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Here is some good information for you to read to help you understand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth#Recurring_motifs_and_themes
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2006-12-02 13:04:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Macbeth is a basically good man who is troubled by his conscience and loyalty though at the same time ambitious and murderous. He is led to evil initially by the witches' predictions and then by his wife's goading, which he succumbs to because he loves her so. His obsession over the kingship shows a certain kind of egotism.
Internal Struggle. In the first two acts of the play, Macbeth struggles with morality and ambition, trying desperately to reconcile the two. After Act 2, he struggles instead to reconcile with his regicidal 'new self,' finally failing in the task and falling into utter moral darkness and abandoning all optimistic perspective. His former greatness decays until his "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" speech, which shows he has given up on all hope of self-reconciliation.
Corrupting Power of Pure Emotion. In the beginning of the play, Macbeth respects social expectations of him and thus falters in his ambitions to commit regicide. Only through the influence of the witches and Lady Macbeth does he gather the will to murder Duncan. From this point, however, Macbeth begins to act more and more compulsively, such as when he orders the murders of Banquo and Fleance. In Act 4, he commits himself completely to living based on his bare impulses: "From this moment / The very firstlings of my heart shall be / The firstlings of my hand" (4.1.168-170). After making this pledge, Macbeth becomes a highly erratic mess of fitful remarks and emotional outbursts, and eventually tosses himself into inevitable defeat at the hands of Macduff after spending the entire play jealously guarding his life and crown.
2006-12-02 21:07:30 · answer #2 · answered by Martha P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A tragic hero. A lot of noble traits even until the end but blinded with ambition.
2006-12-02 20:34:42 · answer #3 · answered by robert m 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
psychotic, incestful, backstabber, paranoid
2006-12-02 20:33:46 · answer #4 · answered by antagonist 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋