Macbeth’S Changing Fears

Part I of Essay
In the play Macbeth, Shakespeare plays upon many different human emotions. Shakespeare focuses these many emotions mainly in the character Macbeth. Shakespeare plays with a variety of emotions with Macbeth, but one emotion is clearly more predominate in Macbeth than any o ....

Part II of Essay
.... for power and the control of his fate. This transformation is most evident in two passages spoken by Macbeth. The first passage is in Act I and the second is in Act III. In the first passage Macbeth says: This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? Present fears Are ....