I am currently reading Macbeth, and I am trying to find out how the line " I have almost forgot the taste of fears" relates to the idea that he expresses no guilt.
any help?
2007-06-03 10:09:47 · 4 answers · asked by brodeur4vezina 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
What the *****? Thats not very helpful at all, im not even writing a paper, its 1 question.
2007-06-03 10:15:00 · update #1
Macbeth becomes so full of himself throughout the play that when the time comes for battle the idea of fear appears almost new to him. He's offed everyone who was a threat, but now he has no one (no protection) and the chances of victory are slim. As for connecting that to the feeling of guilt, it's just how he was full of himself and since he had all the power there was no reason for him to feel bad because he felt more secure everytime he had someone murdered.
2007-06-03 10:24:40 · answer #1 · answered by Liz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Macbeth is about corruption. As the opening scenes show, Macbeth starts out as a man with many virtues, one of which is courage. But the witches use his ambition to corrupt him into an evil man.
By this point in the last act, macbeth has been thoroughly corrupted. As an evil man, he still has courage, but his courage is transformed into heartlessness and brutality. That is emphasized in this passage, because we know that the cries he is untroubled by are for the death of his wife. Lady M in her last scene is clearly plagues by guilt, trying to wash the blood off her hands.
Macbeth has taken confidence in prophecies which he feels make him invincible. But just after this he is told that Birnam's Wood is moving - fulfilling one part of the prophecy of his defeat. His response is to "begin to doubt (fear) the equivocation of the fiend". When he find out that Macduff was, "from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd", (i.e. macduff was delivered by a Caesarian and is not "of woman born"), he says it "hath cow'd my better part of man". he knows that he is about to die, but when Macduff charges him with cowardice determines to die fighting - "Yet will I try the last".
2007-06-03 11:06:20 · answer #2 · answered by A M Frantz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it would seem to imply that the person has forgotten what fear is like so much to where he feels no guilt for people he might hurt. Because to him, fear is not as close to him.
2007-06-03 10:13:12 · answer #3 · answered by A Gabbi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he is coming out of the closet.
2007-06-03 10:12:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋