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This 5 page paper considers several aspects of the play "Macbeth," including whether or not the ending is happy or sad, who the protagonist is, how the setting affects the story, and its themes and symbols. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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no long introspective examination of the society as there is in Hamlet, just the witches prediction, Macbeths horrific deeds and the madness that follows, and then a swift reckoning. This
paper answers several questions about this disturbing play. Discussion Who is the protagonist? A "protagonist" is the main character in a play. People often use the term interchangeably with "hero,"
but the two are not the same. A protagonist is often also a hero, but in some cases he is an anti-hero, or even a villain, as in Richard III.
Here, Macbeth is both a hero and a villain, a unique creation; but the play is a tragedy, "and a visionary tragedy is a strange genre. Like Hamlet, Othello, and
Lear, Macbeth is a tragic protagonist, and yet like Claudius, Iago, and Edmund, Macbeth is a villain, indeed a monster of murderousness far surpassing the others" (Bloom). Even so, it
is difficult to think of Macbeth in the same way we think of tyrants like Hitler or Stalin, and yet that is what he is (Bloom). Because of this, Bloom
asks "Why, even in despite of myself, do I identify with Macbeth, down to the very end?" (Bloom). The answer, Bloom argues, lies in the power of Macbeths imagination, which
is "at once his greatest strength and his destructive weakness" (Bloom). Despite this, readers and playgoers dont respond with ambivalence to his thinking: "We thrill to its poetic, expressionistic strength,
whatever its consequences" (Bloom). Another source agrees, saying that Macbeth is "ethically definable and condemnable for his crime" and at the same time a "tragic character, in the sense
that he is described as experiencing action separated from thought, while thought should precede and proceed from, action" ("Macbeth: I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing.") While a competent
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