Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Do you feel any simpathy for Macbeth? Why or why not? Do you feel any simpathy for Macbeth? Why or why not?

at first
seems a somewhat sympathetic character, if only because he knows initially that what he is doing
is wrong. In other words, he is not a psychopath: he has some moral sense.
If he were a psychopath, we would not sympathize with him. If he were a total victim, he could
not be a tragic figure. Instead, he is a complicated human being with a complex moral nature,
although by the end of the play he becomes one of the least morally attractive of all of
Shakespeare's tragic figures.

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