Shakespeares Macbeth - Innocent and Naive Macbeth :: GCSE English Literature Coursework

Innocent and Naive Macbeth Innocence is a forest that few people take to their grave, although all argon born with it. At approximately point in mavins life, an event or circumstance removes that fortress from both moral and legal guilt, whether in ones own eyes or in the eyes of another. In such a case, innocence is position off, or innocence can be stolen. Both are adjust of Macbeth in William Shakespeares tragic work Macbeth. The heros innocence and navet take him vulnerable prey for those who feel solely at home in a subhuman realm of malice and disintegration - the witches and Lady Macbeth. Inevitably, Macbeth is lastly worn down becoming to be pushed into this dark and evil abysm by his wife, Lady Macbeth, who leaps frantically in after him to join the witches where they are most at home. The robbery of Macbeths innocence begins with allowing the witches to brainwash him with their predictions forcing him to step approximate and closer to the edge of their disma l abyss. They take advantage of the surplus of competition that had served him so well in his desire for victory over Macdonwald and design it to instill in him the need to be King. Still, desire is not enough for Macbeth and he is thus driven to seek certainty as his one objective. He wants certainty from the witches . . . at whatever cost (Campbell 228). Macbeth, however, is not completely lost yet honour and justice remain in him, and although it takes him some time to fully consider the consequences of the witches words on him, he rejects his direful thoughts of murder and postpones all action If chance will have me king, why,chance may crown me, / Without my stir (I. iii.143-144). For the time being, Macbeths true essence is in control, that of obedience and honour. However, Macbeth again undergoes a change of heart in scene four, at the announcement of Malcolm as the Prince of Cumberland and as successor to the arse of Scotland, the same throne upon which Macbeth had h is eyes set upon. The effect of the Kings proclamation on him can be seen through his reaction The Prince of Cumberland that is a step, On which I must make it down, or else oer-leap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires Let not set out see my black and deep desires The eye wink at the peck yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see .