Evil_in_Macbeth

Evil in Macbeth Evil In Macbeth In no other Shakespearean tragedy does the hero have so firm and correct grasp of self-knowledge, nor a well developed concept of the universe and his place in it. In Macbeth, the character of Macbeth has a perfect ability for moral judgment. He willfully disregards his own moral thoughts and institutions. According to Bernard McElroy, "more than any other Shakespearean hero, he [Macbeth] has a perfectly clear concept of who he is and where he stands --- and it is exactly this perception that torments and spiritually destroys him"(330). Macbeth is strongly impelled to evil but he also abhors evil. It is this that causes Macbeth to abhor himself. The play explores the tensions between Macbeth's proneness to evil and his abhorrence to evil. Macbeth is a tragic hero because he becomes caught in tensions between his criminal actions and the reaction of his conscience. Had Macbeth committed the deeds without any remorse, he would have been simply an evil monster, without any hope. ! But it is his conscience about evil that makes him tragic. Through Macbeth's actions, Shakespeare is able to depict the nature of evil as being: lusftul, deceptive, tyrannical, and disruptive to family. To begin, macbeth, evil, god, nature, shakespeare, man, macbeth's, play, othello, one, himself, good, ambition, witches, through, shakespearean, satan, ribner, relationship, place, order, according, volume, tyranny, state, renaissance, power, must, lust, edited, bond, between, wife, very, tragedy, thy, thus, sin, shakespeare's, own, notion, murder, lady, iago, however, hero, hand, greater, eve, cambridge