In William Shakespeare's Macbeth, there are several author's "observations" from the human's nature. This observations are expressed continuously during all the play, but I will concentrate mainly in two of them.
The first one is presented all along the play between the two main characters, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, the corrupting power of human's ambition. The ambition of Macbeth starts when he receives the prophecy from the Three Witches. Even though Banquo warns Macbeth of the Witches' forecast being a probable fallacy, he reuses to leave unnoticed the auspice of him being a king. However, when Macbeth starts to hesitate about killing the king, his wife, Lady Macbeth puts pressure on him psychologically and almost forces him to do it. This relies on to the next "observation" from Shakespeare.
In the play, there are constant issues of gender. Most of them, lean on Lady Macbeth, constantly manipulating Macbeth to prodding him to make murders while questioning his manhood. Even though of Lady Macbeth's dictatorial attitude, she does not contradict Macbeth when he says that women like her should only give birth to boys. This actions demonstrate that Lady Macbeth and Macbeth equates manhood with aggression. Shakespeare constantly implies in this whole play that women are sources of violence and evil. Finally, when Macduff learns from the murders of his son and wife, Malcolm tries to comfort him telling him that he should take the news in a "manly" fashion, by looking forward to have his revenge on Macbeth.
The author explains this topics as something part of human nature, something genetically incrusted to every human being. Personally, I see the two topics –described in this reflection– as critics to the human being, the first one as the never ending thirst of humans to obtain more power, and the second one of its conservatism. I completely agree to the way Shakespeare thinks of the human nature and also by the way he describes them.
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