William Shakespeare s Macbeth - 1399 Words

William Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’, resonates the damnation and inevitable dissolution of man in the face of compunction, facades and vaulting ambition. Through the use of dramatic irony, symbolism and soliloquies, Shakespeare denotes the happenings of a tragic hero who ambles on the verge between moral and immoral; the inception after which humanity cascades to pieces. Ultimately through this farrago of self-seeking divinations, disdainful desires, decimating machinations and an ultimate plunge from refinement, Shakespeare pinpoints that â€Å"power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely†. (John Acton) Shakespeare initiates the dramatic premise of the play, through the awakening of Macbeth’s fermenting ambition, which is†¦show more content†¦Ã¢â‚¬Å"Hail Macbeth†¦Thane of Glamis†¦Thane of Cawdor [and the] king hereafter†¦Hail [Banquo] lesser than Macbeth yet greater†; through the witches predictions, Macbeth’s prestige is not only foreshadowed but reveals his central chaos and idleness; rather than settling to act on the witches’ claims, or merely rejecting them, Macbeth talks himself into a contemplative coma as he attempts to comprehend the paradoxical dilemma. Macbeth’s subsequent reaction to the Prince of Cumberland, where he states that â€Å"[Malcolm] is a step on which [he] must fall down†¦for in [his] way it lies† emphasises his â€Å"vaulting ambition† to ascend to the throne, unmasking the viewers to the plague of ambition. Shakespeare intentionally discloses the fall of a pious king in order to reveal the impeding guilt which the perpetrator dwells upon, prior to the carnage. â€Å"Thou wouldst be great; art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it†; Lady Macbeth’s reaction to Macbeth’s letter on his encounters, emphasises the well documented differences between Macbeth and herself in their attempts to ascend to the throne; as Macbeth’s soft incentives clearly do not counterpart with her own darker impulses. Here the audience is revealed to two routes which could ultimately lead to the mirroring of their intents. However Shakespeare pinpoints the ideology that; ambition catches evil, as one might catch a disease. He emphasises how the symptoms develop until there