Macbeth

“Macbeth offers its audience a mainly negative view of human nature. To what extent do you agree with this statement?”

Many authors of plays write their works in order to show the audience certain aspects of life. In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the author is showing to the audience of his play a primarily negative view of human life through the play’s protagonist, Macbeth. However, the play is not entirely focussed on the negative side of human nature. Macduff and King Duncan personify the positive side of human existance in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth.

In Macbeth, King Duncan is portrayed by Shakespeare’s use of language as being almost angelic in nature. In Act II, scene iii, just after King Duncan is discovered dead, Macbeth, the perpetrator of the murder of the King says, “…His silver skin laced with his golden blood…” (II, iii, 105). This use of wording shows Duncan’s revered, semi-angelic existance. Duncan’s character construction was a positive vi...