Examples Of Sympathy In Macbeth

Shakespeare is the god of delusion, bad habits, and purely unbridled desire. Shakespeare uses these to amplify the character of Macbeth. Macbeth was a saint that flipped the script. Sympathy is built through actions not words, something Macbeth utilized when he did good deeds in hopes of gaining the king's favor. In the play The Tragedy of Macbeth written by William Shakespeare shows how Macbeth had sympathy built through his open mindedness, his ambition, and his manipulative surroundings. To Kick Off, Shakespeare uses Macbeth's sense of open mindedness to convey sympathy to the reader. The play states, “I conjure you, by that which you profess/ howe’er you come to know it, answer me”(Shakespeare 4.1.50-55). This builds sympathy by showing

As it states in the play, “to be so much more than you were, you would/ Be so much more than a man”(Shakespeare 2.7.50-51). This shows how Macbeth was constantly under the eye of his wife. No matter what he would do there would always be a critique. Macbeth’s wife pushed him into killing the king for their benefit; she believed that the prophecy would come true if he killed the king and anyone in his path. She was the definition of a backseat driver, a lot to say ,but at the end of the day they do not do much. The play also states, “But screw your courage to the sticking place and we’ll not fail”(Shakespeare 1.7.60). Lady Macbeth was the sole reason Macbeth became the king he was. If she had left him alone to become king naturally two main outcomes arise. He could have become a king without a crippling sense of paranoia or he would have never had a chance to sit upon the throne. In a way she was always in his corner even if she was merely there for herself. She gave Macbeth a sense of false hope all because she desired to be king. She wished she were a man, but at the end of the day she was more of a man than Macbeth ever could have been. This is how he let himself get manipulated creating sympathy from the