Macbeth's tragedy is that of a good, brave and honourable man turned into the personification of evil by the workings of unreasonable ambition.
Macbeth is overwhelmed by a triple alliance: the witches' prophecies, his own ambitions and those of Lady Macbeth.
Lady Macbeth:
"... yet do I fear thy nature,
it is too full o'th' milk of human kindness
to catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great,
art not without ambition, but without
the illness should attend it..."
atto I, scena V
Lady Macbeth and Iago are personifications of the evil. While Iago is pure evil, since he acts without a reason, lady Macbeth acts under the strength of her love for his husband.
Is there a difference, in the end, in the evil they cause?
2 comments:
Good question. I think, though, that it is different indeed, because the "motive" is different. Obviously, the end result is the same (someone killed), but the reasons why they did it, and the results that each hope to achieve is not the same ...
You seem to like shakespeare a lot ... or, are you teaching it?? :P
~ J
I do love Shakespeare very much! Unfortunately I don't teach it.. sob!
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