Shakespeares Macbeth - Deep Darkness Essays -- Macbeth essays

Macbeth's Deep Darkness   â In Shakespeare's catastrophe Macbeth there is a dull angle which hangs over most scenes in the play. Let us analyze this quality in this paper.  In Macbeth as the Imitation of an Action Francis Fergusson states the spot of obscurity in the activity of the play:  It is the expression to surpass the pauser, reason [2.3], which appears to me to portray the activity, or thought process, of the play all in all. Macbeth, obviously, truly implies that his affection for Duncan was so solid thus quick that it advanced beyond his explanation, which would have directed an interruption. In any case, similarly we have seen his eagerness and aspiration beat his explanation when he submitted the homicide; and similarly the entirety of the characters, in the silly murkiness of Scotland's malicious hour, are constrained in their activity to endeavor past what they can see by reason alone. Indeed, even Malcolm and Macduff, as we will see, are constrained to go ridiculous in the activity which annihilates Macbeth and parts of the bargains. (106-7)  L.C. Knights in the exposition Macbeth portrays the ethical haziness into which Macbeth brings down himself:  The fundamental subject of the inversion of qualities is given out essentially and unmistakably in the principal scene - Reasonable is foul, and foul is reasonable; and with it are related hunches of the contention, issue and good dimness into which Macbeth will plunge himself.â (95)  Charles Lamb in On the Tragedies of Shakespeare remarks on the pictures of night and their effect on the crowd:  The condition of grand feeling into which we are raised by those pictures of night and frightfulness which Macbeth is made to absolute, that serious preface with which he engages the time till the ringer will strike which is to call... ...are: The Tragedies. A Collectiion of Critical Essays. Alfred Harbage, ed. Englewwod Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1964.  Knights, L.C. Macbeth. Shakespeare: The Tragedies. A Collectiion of Critical Essays. Alfred Harbage, ed. Englewwod Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1964.  Sheep, Charles. On the Tragedies of Shakespeare. N.p.: n.p.. 1811. Rpt in Shakespearean Tragedy. Bratchell, D. F. New York, NY: Routledge, 1990.  Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Macbeth. http://chemicool.com/Shakespeare/macbeth/full.html, no lin.  Warren, Roger. Shakespeare Survey 30.â N.p.: n.p., 1977. Pp. 177-78. Rpt. in Shakespeare in the Theater: An Anthology of Criticism. Stanley Wells, ed. Britain: Oxford University Press, 2000.  Wilson, H. S. On the Design of Shakespearean Tragedy. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1957.