Light vs. Dark: "Macbeth"

Much of this play is filled with the jumble between light and sinfulness (symbolizing Macbeth-- he asks for darkness to hide his desires in Act I, and because darkness shrouds the night of the murder). The light in the first dickens acts is King Duncan, but the struggle went in favor of darkness. This struggle occurs in every act of the play.

Also, in Act V, setting vii, Macduff enters and cites, If thou [Macbeth] best slain and with no stroke of mine,/My wife and childrens ghosts bequeath haunt me still (lines 15 - 16). Macduff cant rest until he gets strike back on the killer of his family, something Malcolm and Fleance (whose family was also killed by Macbeth) didnt say.

Macduff is the hero of the play. He is the light that will soon come to a last(a) climactic battle with the dark (Macbeth). There is also spectral meaning to this: God against the devil, Macbeth being the devil (remember how he couldnt say Amen in Act II?). This theme has been used in many contemporary stories; its an epic battle of good vs. evil.

* things argon not what they seem

* blind want

* power corrupts

* superstition affects human behavior

In Macbeth, ambition conspires with unholy forces to commit evil deeds which, in their turn, feed fear, guiltiness and still more horrible crimes. Above all, Macbeth is a character study in which not one, but cardinal protagonists (the title character and Lady Macbeth) respond individually and together with to the psychological burden of their sins. In the course of the play, Macbeth repeatedly misinterprets the guilt that he suffers as being simply a outlet of fear. His characteristic way of dealing with his guilt is to face it like a shot by committing still more misdeeds, and this, of...

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