Loss+of+Morality+and+Sanity+2

  =Loss of Morality and Sanity

Act 1. Scene 5. **Macbeth.** I am Thane of Cawdor. If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical.  Act 4. Scene 1. **Macbeth.** Then live, Macduff. What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure And take a bond of fate. Thou shalt not live!

Act 1. Scene 5. **Lady Macbeth.** That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill m, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood; Stop up the access and passage to remorse

Act 5. Scene 1. **Lady Macbeth.** Out, damned spot! out, I say! One; two. Why then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our pow'r to accompt? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?

Act 3. Scene 4. **Macbeth.** Prithee see there! behold! look! lo! How say you? Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too. If charnel houses and our graves must send Those that we bury back, our monuments Shall be the maws of kites.  The loss of morality and sanity is mostly portrayed through the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Throughout the play we see the consistent decline of morals in the character of Macbeth. He entered the play as a loyal and heroic war hero and he transformed into a paranoid, murderous king. Lady Macbeth experienced her decline much faster than Macbeth. She was tempted by the opportunity for power and was the one who pushed Macbeth down his unfortunate path. The first two quotes we chose appropriately show the moral decline of Macbeth. In the first quote he is troubled over the idea of killing Duncan and is questioning whether he can actually kill his king. In the second quote Macbeth decides on a whim that Macduff must die in order to protect his throne even though he was assured by the second and third apparititions that he was safe. The third and fourth quotes display Lady Macbeth's transition from a woman who so desperately desired to kill in order to gain the throne, to a woman who can hardly function becuase of her massive guilt. Our last quote displays Macbeth at the begining of his darkest moment. He decided to kill his best friend, Banquo, out of paranoia, and the guilt associated with this deed causes him to see the ghost of Banquo at a State dinner, which ends up compromising his throne. This signifies the point where Macbeth realizes he made the wrong decision by killing Duncan, but realizes there is no turning back and tries to hold on to the little he has left. The theme of the loss of morality and sanity drives the tradegy of Macbeth and makes it the play that it is. By: Cheyenne Shaw, Steven Boehm, Ernesto Arevelo