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Imagination in Macbeth

What makes Macbeth imaginative?

Macbeth is Shakespeares most imaginative play. Shakespeares high tone

of imagination and narrative skills keeps the audience involved and awe struck from

the start to the end. The story revolves around a feeling of greed and gloom,

continued by tragedy and despair. very act in the play brings another interpretation

of the play by the audience. The bildungsroman of the characters in the play defines

Shakespeares wobbling thoughts in the play which all later become the streams that

combine in one single river.

The play is about a young warrior fighting under the divine mperor of

Scotland. !t is astonishing how Shakespeare connected his plays to his daily life,

perhaps in a way to relive the past. Macbeth was written in "#$#, % years after the

death of Monarch of Scotland, &ueen li'abeth. &ueen li'abeth had no children,

nor any nephews or niece. (fter her death )er Ma*estys throne was handed over to

her distant cousin +ames. +ames ruled well but there were conspiracies in the

country that caused many rivals in the country and planned a plot to blow off +ames

parliament. ortunately, the conspirators plans spilled and they were tortured and

killed in the most brutal fashion every in history. Most of Shakespeares plays try to

bring out the same setting and pose as a cautionary tale to all the potential regicides

depicting the fate of *ustice which will inevitably overtake them.

Shakespeares Macbeth has an e-traordinary clima- but as the story progresses,

everything becomes clear. Macbeth, the protagonist of the play, is introduced to the

play as a strong, brave, kind and trustworthy warrior and the audiences e-pectation

is a hopeful and happy tale of bravery. The wounded soldier narrates the scenes at

the battlefield portraying Macbeths bravery. (lso in the initial scenes of Macbeth and


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her ady together, ady Macbeth claims Macbeth as kind in the phrase, /et ! do fear

thy nature0 !t is too full o1 the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way,

which bends the play more towards the good side. 2ut soon, as the play continues,

the dark evil side is visualised. The coin is now the other way round and the scenes

fiddle with the audience confusing them with thoughts of good and evil. Macbeth

shows is black side as he plans to murder 3ing 4uncan, his ord. (lthough an evil

act, Macbeth shows evidence of self5imagination in introspection. This is inevitable in

the blood stained dagger scene as Macbeth throws his thoughts across the audience

provoking feeling of fear and tragedy. Shakespeare uses many superstitious aspects

in the play to bring feelings of internal dilemma and fear out of the characters.

Through his imagination, Shakespeare successfully conveys his thoughts that evil

minds never rest.

urther, Macbeth in the play appears restless in the play due to hi

imagination. )is imagination and tense feeling that someday he would also meet

with the same fate as of 4uncan kept him alive. The more he imagined, the more her

doubted people near him and walked on the dark side murdering his own trusty

people even 2an6uo, an ally to Macbeth.

The 7itches in the play also mark the beginning of horror and tragedy. They

symbolise the desires that we mess with every day in our life. +ust like we stand in

front of two path in our lives, one leading to our desires and one leading to our final

goal through a morally correct path. That is the moment to decide between desires

and ethic. The path of desires in very hypnotising and most of the times we end up

choosing that path because it seems to look good. 2ut, the path of desire is not a

small, straight road, its a chain of events where one leads to another and never

leaves us until we escape the world. The 7itches in the play stand like those


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hypnotising doctors pulling Macbeth towards them slowly converting him into an evil

and dark ruler. 8nknown to Macbeth, the witches also took away Macbeths identity

showcasing him as an evil usurper.

Shakespeares creative use of language, imagination and creativity combine

in the most perfect blend with Tragedy to produce Macbeths Tragedy and the a

message to all traitors in the world that +ustice is always done.

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