<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > "If there is a hell in the world, it exists in the hearts of people." </h1>
"Macbeth" is a well-known classic drama at home and abroad, and it is also one of Shakespeare's most famous four tragedies, I believe many people have seen it. After watching this play, I felt a lot. In my opinion, the most remarkable thing about this play is Shakespeare's profound analysis of human nature in a dark society.
Macbeth, the protagonist of the play, was originally a generation of famous generals who were heroic and mighty, had outstanding achievements, and were loyal and patriotic. But then, driven by ambition, seduced by witch prophecies, and egged on by his wife, he murdered Duncan, King of Scotland.
After usurping the throne, he continued to kill innocents in order to protect the throne, and was finally eliminated by Duncan's son Malcolm.
From a generation of heroic and mighty, outstanding achievements, loyal and patriotic to the king. Later, he became an ambitionist who usurped the throne and a bloody tyrant who killed people. Macbeth's tragedy is not so much the provocation of his wife's seduction and the witch's prophecy as the fate of his own desires and greedy collusion.
Macbeth was killed
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > "the most evil man cannot be the protagonist of a tragedy." </h1>
Man is complex and diverse, and there are very few extremely evil people and very few extremely good people. But it is clear that the protagonist of a tragedy cannot be a very evil person.
There is no doubt that Macbeth is not a pure bad person, and even many people still think that he should be a hero, but just like Jin Yong's female demon leader Li Moxuan, her "blackening", her heart is fierce because of her inner scars, originally kind she was hurt by love and fell into a demon, it is precisely because of her tragic experience that she is not a face-making female demon, so that she is imprinted in our hearts.
Macbeth here is the same, he usurped the throne, killed innocents indiscriminately, is not a good person, but it is precisely because of his former justice and bravery that this process of becoming bad and degenerate has become a tragedy.
The script uses large confessions to portray Macbeth, who has been struggling with constant pain.
Whether before or after the assassination of the king, Macbeth's heart was wrenching in a fierce, painful struggle, and his conscience was occasionally whipped.
Macbeth and his wife
And whenever he was shaken and entangled, his wife and witch would always seduce and incite him, so that he would go to ruin step by step, so many people believed that Macbeth's tragic fate was created by the witch and his wife.
When the assassination was planned, he said to his wife, "Let's not do this." He has recently given me great honor; I have so hardly gained the supreme reputation from the mouths of all kinds of people, and my reputation is now radiating its most brilliant brilliance, and it cannot be discarded so quickly. "
It seems that he was reluctant to carry out this plan, and the final assassination seems to have been instigated by Lady Macbeth.
But as a great general who has conquered the battlefield, if there is no desire and greed in his heart, how can he be influenced by the words of several women? I think he knows it all too well
"There is no force that can push me forward, but my ambition to try is desperate to drive me to risk it."
Poster of the opera Macbeth
But in fact, as early as he met the witch, and the witch's language was realized one by one, the seed of desire was already embedded in his heart.
When he reached his wife with the so-called good news, he knew exactly what he was going to face next. Just like Zhao Kuangyin, who is dressed in a yellow robe, it seems to be forced, it seems to be instigated by others, but in fact, it is his own inner desires.
Of course, it cannot be denied that Mrs. Macbeth played a role in fueling Macbeth's criminal behavior throughout the play. Ambition and lust for power drive Macbeth into the depths of sin, hoping to assassinate Duncan to take the throne, but he struggles with the thought of failure, the consequences of failure. And as the closest person, Mrs. Macbeth has a clear understanding of her husband's struggles at this moment.
She said, "You want to be a great person, you are not without ambition, but you lack the treachery associated with that ambition; Your desires are great, but you want to use only the right means; On the one hand, they are unwilling to play treacherous, but on the other hand, they want to do non-trivial grabbing; ...... It's not that you don't want to do it, it's that you're afraid to do it. "
This clear and direct analysis of Macbeth's heart gave him courage, and then Macbeth finally took Macbeth's advice and decided to assassinate the king.
Lady Macbeth
A clean assassination, even killing two guards in order to kill them, Macbeth's sinister and cunning side is fully exposed at the instigation of desire. You can imagine that even if it wasn't Mrs. Macbeth, it was anyone else, who was pushing the envelope at the right moment, would be the result.
Macbeth's hesitation is not so much a choice between good and evil, an excuse to retreat, but rather that he is asking for the motivation to act, looking for an opportunity or excuse that can make him feel at ease.
"It was determined by fate, it was not my intention" He may still be so at ease when he swung the butcher knife.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > "This is determined by fate, this is not my intention"</h1>
Speaking of fate, there are also many people who think that Shakespeare's "Macbeth" is a tragedy about fate, they believe that in this legendary play, the power of fate is incomparably strong, and Macbeth is just a tragic figure who is played by the clutches of fate. And Macbeth's personal fate is obviously related to the three evil witches.
The first scene of the first act of the play is the dialogue of the three witches in the mist, which is confusing and adds a mysterious filter to them, and the subsequent prophecies and mysterious poisons portray the image of their behind-the-scenes drivers, as if Macbeth's tragedy is completely blamed on the witch's seduction.
Three Witches
Tracing back to the source, the source of this whole thing seems to come from the witch's prophecy, because those damn prophecies provoked the hero's evil thoughts, and only then did a generation of heroes fall to this point, but is this really the case?
We can see that the first two prophecies were naturally fulfilled, so if Macbeth really believed the prophecy and believed that he would eventually ascend to the throne, then he would quietly wait for the fate to arrange it, but when Duncan announced that his son would succeed him, he immediately thought that this was a stepping stone across his future, and he must jump over this step stone, otherwise he would be on top of it.
Did he still believe in fate at this time? Not necessarily. If he had been to China, he might have said in a deep voice, "The plot is in the people, and the success is in the sky."
Of course he had never been to China, so he said, "O stars, put away your flames!" Don't let the light shine through my dark, deep desires. Eyes, don't look at these hands; But I still have to do it, no matter what I do, I will be too scared to look at it. "
It is not difficult to see from this that Macbeth is not convinced of fate.
The so-called prophecy is nothing more than a bait, which arouses his greedy desires and eventually leads to a road of no return.
Macbeth ascending to the throne
Bangor is Macbeth's best contrast, and the prophecy of the three witches should also be tempting to Bangor, but Bangor did not kill because of these temptations like Macbeth, and the same deception did not work for Bangor.
"If you believe them completely, you may be eager to grab the crown after sir Court. But this kind of thing is very strange; The devil, in order to frame us, often deliberately tells us the truth, gains our trust in small things, and then we fall into his trap at important moments. "
How keen is he, and he sees through the witch's trap at once, so can't our hero Macbeth see it? No, he could see it, but he couldn't jump out of himself, and he couldn't jump out of the trap of desire, so he jumped into the trap without hesitation, with the indomitable and the luck in his heart.
And then Macbeth later, in order to protect the throne, killed Bangor without any external impetus, which is the most intuitive embodiment of his sinful nature, and he soberly believes that what begins with injustice must be consolidated with sin.
So he became a tyrant without compromise.
Although he was troubled by Bangor's ghost after killing him, he still soberly realized that his suspicious spirits and ghosts were ugly, all because of untrained and fearful. It is not difficult to see that the so-called prophecy of creating tragedy only played a guiding role, and the real tragedy was driven by Macbeth's inner desires.
The devil in the heart is the most terrible
After reading "Macbeth", objectively exploring the reasons for Macbeth's seizure of the throne, we can summarize two clear clues:
One is Macbeth's own inner desire, his desire and covetousness for the throne itself, the internal cause
The other is the external environment in which Mike is located, that is, the agitation of Lady Macbeth and the prophecy of the witch in the wasteland, these people or things, that is, external causes.
The joint promotion of internal and external factors eventually led to macbeth's tragedy. But external factors ultimately work through internal causes. The internal cause is the decisive factor in the whole tragedy.
His ambitions for the supremacy of the throne, and the desire to seize the throne that spontaneously arises in his heart, are already lurking in his heart before he encounters the witch in the wasteland and listens to Lady Macbeth's encouragement, and even without those external causes, they will suddenly erupt at some ordinary or extraordinary moment.
Shakespeare
I think it is even possible to see the occurrence of this tragedy as a fate that Macbeth must go under his own character, desires, and identity.
For all of Macbeth's actions are conscious throughout. It wasn't that he didn't know what his choices would turn out, but he was willing to make such a big gamble, because the supreme power was beyond everything in Macbeth's mind, because from beginning to end there was a desire in his heart.
The seeds of desire are hidden in everyone's heart, and once they germinate, they are difficult to remove. The weaknesses of human nature are mostly the same, and in the face of temptation and desire, anyone will show greed in their eyes, and this is the source of most tragedies throughout the ages.