Macbeth Essay

The supernatural plays an important role because they determined whether Macbeth was going to become a murder. They determine this because they told Macbeth was going to be the next leader after Duncan. They sort of lied to him because they wanted to see how far he went with what they had told him. He tried to accomplish everything he was told just to be the next leader.

After Duncan’s announcement that Malcolm, his son was next in line; Macbeth reacted with fury so he plotted Duncan’s death, he then knew after Duncan’s death his kids would flee and he would be the heir like the witches said. Another form of supernaturalism is the dagger that lead Macbeth to Duncan’s room the night he died. It’s a form of supernaturalism because it wasn’t a real dagger and it was leading Macbeth to his first murder. It is also a supernatural symbol because it shows how Macbeth had a disturbing image of Duncan’s death.

The witches are important because they feed Macbeth with prophecies that come true to a sense after Macbeth commits various murders. It’s interesting because Macbeth can’t sleep after his first murder but can sleep after sending murders to kill Banquo. It’s interesting because after he commits the first murder he feels very guilty but he thinks if someone does it for him he won’t feel as guilty for been involved. If we think about this it seems as if the witches want Macbeth to kill others so that they could become more demanding and in charge of Macbeth.

The way the play involves ghosts, witches and other supernatural beings and things, is important because it leads to Macbeth going crazy for power and his wife’s death. It makes Macbeth weak and vulnerable because he has no control of what’s happening any longer. He becomes weaker because his goes crazy and commits suicide it also leads to Macbeth hallucinating and feeling their isn’t much he could do since he isn’t only fighting the living but also the dead.

The story of Macbeth has had many different interpretations, as well as movies. The movie we watched in class doesn't relate to the one in the book. The movies supernatural characteristics are very different from the ones in the book. They are more graphic. The scene’s with the witches make us think about whether Macbeth cared of being "damned" for killing people. When we analyze the supernatural characters by themselves we see that they tell us how Macbeth reacts to certain things.

We see that Macbeth stop caring about what was going to happen morally. In many ways he is forgetting all the good things an caving into the bad. At some point this is bad because if we use the supernaturalism theme he is damning himself and not caring whether he makes it alive or dead.