Exploring the Meaning of Blood, Nature, and Rationality in Shakespeare’s Macbeth

Through the course of William Shakespeargons Macbeth, the plays protagonists plague themselves over the fight between wrinkle and nature among many other things. Blood, be it the kind shed upon ones goal or the kind that carries entitlement and stature, parallels and collides with the most basic ideas of nature, and what is lifelike for a military personnel being. Throughout the play, contrast, nature, and rationality are equivocated to highlight Macbeths underlying irrationality, justifications, 1 and deeply seeded desires.The issue presented by nature is one that is lively to this play. Macbeth goes against the nature of a human when he slays Dun faecal matter, and doesnt allow him to run in the way that nature intended. Macbeth further defies nature, when he hired the executingers to come out Banquo, because fears of Banquos royalty of nature (3. 1. 51) have Macbeth convinced that if he doesnt murder Banquo, it is for Banquos issue have he filed his mind (3. 1. 66). Shak espeare uses very specific voice communication here when he uses filed instead of a word with less, almost scrutinizing intensity.A word like filed, which is a shorter version of defiled, creates the idea that Macbeth has truly make something horrible to the nature of his being (his brain)2. By corrupting nature and its course, Macbeth changes his induce nature, and we see this change often coupled with prodigal, and the spilling of gunstock. Blood, another common typography throughout the play, has a double meaning, or is equivocated. One of Macbeths primary feather issues in his soliloquy is that Banquo is going to pass on royal blood to his sons that will become kings.Furthermore, if Macbeth allows Banquo to live, it is for Banquo that Macbeth has put rancours in the vessel of his peace. Again, Shakespeare combines blood and nature to highlight the severity of Macbeths condition3. In order to justify Duncans murder, Macbeth has to resort to more bloodshed, (the literal i nterpretation of blood)4, go against nature by putting to death another being, all in the pursuit of the royal blood that brings power when in courses through ones veins. Nature and blood parallel severally other throughout this scene, and they shed light on the consequences of going against them via Macbeth.Additionally, Macbeth uses blood as well as nature to justify the killings of those around him, perpetuating the batch of guilt and remorse that he has already started. First, Macbeth comments on how Banquo chid the sisters and bade them to call to him (3. 1. 58-60). His tone is very childish in the sense that he sees Banquos curiosity in the weird sisters as a threat, and almost instantly assumes that Banquo is trying to steal whatever prophecy the sisters bestowed unto him, similarly5 to how a child would venture a playmate of stealing his crayons.Also, the sounds made by the words Macbeth uses are very strong and curt, chid, bade, speak. These sounds demonstrate the sho rtness and irrationality of Macbeths thoughts, which retrace a similar pattern to those of a child, starting with a black and long sound and then stopping abruptly with a intemperate sound. These words help show how Macbeth truly is being taken over by his insatiable quest for power, and is driven to the point where he cant stop what he has started.Macbeth realizes, 6 in any case little too late, that he is trapped in this cycle he interrupts nature and the natural balance of things by killing everyone to obtain power, spills innocent blood, and then ulterior feels the emotional and psychological affects of his actions. If Macbeth were to see this pattern before he had Banquo killed, possibly he and Lady Macbeth would have been spared the hysteria and paranoia. However, despite Macbeths positive acts of evil and bloodshed, there is this sense of guilt and sorrow in this soliloquy.Although he did kill Duncan, he understands that if he doesnt fulfill his task of killing Banquo that Duncans murder would have meant nothing, and that would add to his inner turmoil. Macbeth captures this idea when he refers to Duncan as gracious (3. 1. 67), which implies that he did feel some sort of love towards Duncan, which would then lead to the idea that Macbeth was thirsty enough to kill individual as gracious as Duncan in order to be king, and that it was justifiable in some way7