Macbeth Essay Draft
In Shakespears “Macbeth” the nighttime and darkness play a major role in the development of the story and characters in the play. Many major events that advance and shape the plot of the story take place at night and most of these happen to be evil events. From this we can tell that Shakespeare is trying to tell us that these evil deeds are dependent on the dark and it’s not just a coincidence. Many times in the play we see people request darkness to commit an evil act. One of the most important instances of this is when Macbeth says "Stars, hide your fires/ let not light see my black and deep desires/ the eye wink at the hand/ yet let that be, which the eye fears, when it is done, to see" (1.4.50-53). This is Macbeth requesting …show more content…
Macbeth has someone surprising killed in the night; he kills his best friend Banquo and his son, Fleance. Macbeth hires murderers to go kill them while they’re on their ride, at night. He doesn’t just order to have them killed, but he convinces the murderers to “Know Banquo as your enemy” (3.1.130). Macbeth does this out of paranoia of what the evil witch said to him. They told him that Banquo’s children will be king but Macbeth will be king. We know that Macbeth couldn’t have them killed during the day because he didn’t want anyone, not even the skies see what evil someone has done under his commands. We know its an evil act because Macbeth has an innocent, kind, loyal friend killed for no reason. Another example is when we look at the witches, as being evil is that Macbeth always meets the witches in dark weather. Whether it be “Thunder” (4.1.1) or whether they meet in fog, both are an obstruction of light, causing darkness, which implies that the meeting is about or for malicious plans. We know that the witch Hecate wanted to “Draw him on to his confusion” (3.5.29) which she knew would lead to Macbeths death. She has this talk with the witches at night so we know that it’s her true intentions to confuse him in a bad way. One of the final and most important plot developmental acts committed in the night is when Macbeth kills Duncan. The murder of Duncan is probably …show more content…
We see this several times through out the whole play. First we see Duncan die in his chamber and we know it was dark because he was sleeping after a long day of traveling. Secondly we see Banquo and Fleance being murdered in darkness while riding. But the final and probably most significant death from the lack of light is Lady Macbeth. The doctor comes in act 5 to let Macbeth know that Lady Macbeth killed herself. We know that in her finals moments she has to keep a candle with her, her last efforts to try and keep her guilt that was trapped in her mind in there. She tried to keep her guilt hidden from her self but as we all know, candles eventually burn out and once the darkness got to her, the guilt was overwhelming so she killed herself. (MB even compares life to a
In Shakespears “Macbeth” the nighttime and darkness play a major role in the development of the story and characters in the play. Many major events that advance and shape the plot of the story take place at night and most of these happen to be evil events. From this we can tell that Shakespeare is trying to tell us that these evil deeds are dependent on the dark and it’s not just a coincidence. Many times in the play we see people request darkness to commit an evil act. One of the most important instances of this is when Macbeth says "Stars, hide your fires/ let not light see my black and deep desires/ the eye wink at the hand/ yet let that be, which the eye fears, when it is done, to see" (1.4.50-53). This is Macbeth requesting …show more content…
Macbeth has someone surprising killed in the night; he kills his best friend Banquo and his son, Fleance. Macbeth hires murderers to go kill them while they’re on their ride, at night. He doesn’t just order to have them killed, but he convinces the murderers to “Know Banquo as your enemy” (3.1.130). Macbeth does this out of paranoia of what the evil witch said to him. They told him that Banquo’s children will be king but Macbeth will be king. We know that Macbeth couldn’t have them killed during the day because he didn’t want anyone, not even the skies see what evil someone has done under his commands. We know its an evil act because Macbeth has an innocent, kind, loyal friend killed for no reason. Another example is when we look at the witches, as being evil is that Macbeth always meets the witches in dark weather. Whether it be “Thunder” (4.1.1) or whether they meet in fog, both are an obstruction of light, causing darkness, which implies that the meeting is about or for malicious plans. We know that the witch Hecate wanted to “Draw him on to his confusion” (3.5.29) which she knew would lead to Macbeths death. She has this talk with the witches at night so we know that it’s her true intentions to confuse him in a bad way. One of the final and most important plot developmental acts committed in the night is when Macbeth kills Duncan. The murder of Duncan is probably …show more content…
We see this several times through out the whole play. First we see Duncan die in his chamber and we know it was dark because he was sleeping after a long day of traveling. Secondly we see Banquo and Fleance being murdered in darkness while riding. But the final and probably most significant death from the lack of light is Lady Macbeth. The doctor comes in act 5 to let Macbeth know that Lady Macbeth killed herself. We know that in her finals moments she has to keep a candle with her, her last efforts to try and keep her guilt that was trapped in her mind in there. She tried to keep her guilt hidden from her self but as we all know, candles eventually burn out and once the darkness got to her, the guilt was overwhelming so she killed herself. (MB even compares life to a