Shakespeares Macbeth - Innocent and Naive Macbeth :: GCSE English Literature Coursework

Innocent and Naive Macbeth Innocence is a quality that fewer people take to their grave, although all are born with it. At any(prenominal) point in ones life, an event or circumstance removes that shield from both moral and legal guilt, whether in ones own eyeball or in the eyes of another. In such a case, innocence is cast off, or innocence can be stolen. Both are true of Macbeth in William Shakespeares tragic work Macbeth. The heros innocence and navet make him susceptible prey for those who feel completely at home in a subhuman realm of malice and disintegration - the witches and Lady Macbeth. Inevitably, Macbeth is eventually bony down enough to be pushed into this dark and evil abyss by his wife, Lady Macbeth, who leaps frantically in after him to join the witches where they are well-nigh at home. The robbery of Macbeths innocence begins with allowing the witches to brainwash him with their predictions forcing him to step impendent and closer to the edge of their di smal abyss. They take advantage of the surplus of ambition that had served him so well in his desire for victory over Macdonwald and use it to imprint in him the need to be King. Still, desire is not enough for Macbeth and he is thus driven to exitk certainty as his one objective. He wants certainty from the witches . . . at whatever cost (Campbell 228). Macbeth, however, is not completely bemused insofar honour and justice remain in him, and although it takes him some duration to fully consider the consequences of the witches words on him, he rejects his horrible thoughts of executing and postpones all action If chance will have me king, why,chance may crownwork me, / Without my stir (I. iii.143-144). For the time being, Macbeths true essence is in control, that of loyalty and honour. However, Macbeth again undergoes a change of heart in scene four, at the contract of Malcolm as the Prince of Cumberland and as successor to the throne of Scotland, the same throne upon whi ch Macbeth had his eyes set upon. The effect of the Kings proclamation on him can be seen through with(predicate) his reaction The Prince of Cumberland that is a step, On which I must fall down, or else oer-leap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires Let not light see my black and deep desires The eye wink at the hand yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see .