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Macbeth charicter

quo’s ghost appears to him. Only at the end of the play is he again a fearless man of action saying, “ I have almost forgotten the taste of fears.” In his last speech in the play, all but beaten he cries, “Yet I will try my last” showing that he is willing to go down fighting a brave gustier. Throughout the play Macbeth is concerned with being a real man a fact exploited by Lady Macbeth when she makes him murder Duncan by calling him a coward. At first he defends himself saying, “I dare do all that may become a man; / Who dares do more, is none.” By this Macbeth means that the crime would be immoral but he is still persuaded by his wife. This is one of the main examples in the play of how Macbeth is manipulated by his wife. Banquo’s ghost terrifies Macbeth, but he is even more terrified by his own fear because it makes him doubt his manhood. He says, “What man dare, I dare” and insists that if the ghost takes the shape of a wild animal, he will face it without trembling. When it goes he says, “ I am a man again.” This shows that Macbeth can face physical threat but not that of guilt or the supernatural.Macbeth knows that killing the king is wrong and at the start of Act 1 scene7 he decided to, “proceed no further in the business.” Having killed Duncan he regrets it immediately and seeing his bloody hands says, “A sorry sight.” He is also deeply disturbed by his inability to say “Amen”, as if guilt has cut him off from God. In Act3, scene 1 Macbeth tries to justify his plan to murder Banquo, he thinks all will be well if he can get rid of him. Macbeth fears Banquo’s, “royalty of nature,” not only because it may expose him but because Banquo’s virtue presents a constant contrast to his own skin.In the play Macbeth is more influenced by imagination than most of the other characters. When he first pictures murd...

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