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A 3 page paper which discusses what makes this play a compelling drama. No additional sources are used.
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setting of witches prophecies and contrasting imagery of light and dark, sight and blindness, contribute to the plays tumult, Shakespeare realized that staging alone would not be enough to sustain
the level of emotional intensity that needed to remain consistent throughout. Therefore, he shrewdly emphasized character and conflict through symbolic language that would be compelling not only to the
audiences of his time but for all time. While contemporary viewers and readers may not be well versed on such concepts as tanistry or the divine right of kings,
they can easily relate to the trials and tribulations of an unhappily married couple. The characters of Lord and Lady Macbeth are the central focal points of the drama, and
all conflict stems from their tempestuous marriage. Shakespeare does not hold back on psychologically probing this couples dysfunctional relationship, and appears to take great relish in airing their dirty
laundry, evident in such metaphorical dialogue as, "Fair is foul and foul is fair: / Hover through the fog and filthy air" (I.i.12-13). The Macbeths are childless after their
babies died shortly after birth. While her husband is off serving Scotlands King Duncan, his Lady is at home alone battling depression. She always expresses herself in terms
of a mothers physical nurturing, poignantly showing how she believes to have failed in what was at the time a womans most important role. Her anguish is chilling in
her lament, "I have given suck and know / How tender tis to love the babe that milks me- / I would, while it was smiling in my face, /
Have pluckd my nipple from his boneless gums" (I.vii.60-63). Because there is no bond of a child uniting the couple, "vaunting ambition" is substituted in its place (I.vii.27).
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