Describing Macbeth
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Describing MacBeth as a âdead butcherâ and Lady MacBeth as âhis fiend-like queenâ is an inadequate description of them both. The descriptions do not have any feelings. They do not feel remorse over anything and are âdeadâ inside. Although MacBeth and Lady MacBeth do show attributes to suggest that they are cold and heartless, their guilt and conscience after the murder of King Duncan prove otherwise.
MacBeth was known as the âbravestâ soldier, a âvaliant cousinâ and a âworthy gentlemanâ. To his wife he was âtoo full oâ thâ milk of human kindnessâ. His rank of Thane of Glamis was of great value and showed a great importance. MacBeth loved his wife calling her his âdearest partner of greatnessâ, an attribute a âdead butcherâ would not have. When MacBeth was told of his prophecy by the âjuggling fiendsâ, the thought of killing King Duncan was at first a âhorrid imageâ to him.
At the feast in Dunsinane for King Duncan, MacBeth argued with his ambition to become king if he should proceed with the inhuman deed. He argued that he was King Duncanâs âkinsmenâ, âhis subjectâ and âhis hostâ. He believed King Duncan had ruled Scotland well and that âhis virtues will plead like angelsâ. It wasnât until Lady MacBeth questioned his manhood that he let his ambition overcome his great values.
Right after the murder of King Duncan, MacBeth narrates to his wife the gruesome details of the murder. He reveals he was unable to bless himself when he âhad most need of blessingâ. He then grimly states âwill all great Neptuneâs ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No: this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incardinine, Making the green one redâ. It is then he begins to feel the guilt of his horrible deed.
Later in the play, after the numerous murders King MacBeth ordered he laments that even if he prevails over the army of MacDuff and Malcolm coming,