How Macbeth changes...

Macbeth has been changed by his supernatural experience. We see this by his reaction to his wife’s death. Both of them are feeling guilty because of the crimes they have committed or manipulated others into doing. ‘She should have died hereafter… to-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow.’ This shows us that…. Shakespeare is using repetition to emphasise the point that if his wife didn’t die today, then she would have some other day. P. Not only does Macbeth feel very little for the death of his wife, but his whole attitude has changed since gaining the power he initially wanted. [Add in your perspective] Q. ‘Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage.’ E. Shakespeare compares, in a metaphor, life to being like a shadow. Our connotations with this are that shadows are insubstantial, they block out the light and they no effect on anything around them. This shows a negative point of view about what life is like. Macbeth says he’s a ‘poor player’ which means an actor. This is ironic because Macbeth would be played by an actor on a stage. The word ‘frets’ means being worried, which again seems like a waste of a life.