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"macbeth" - Discuss the Play as a Portrayal of Damnation
"Macbeth" is a play written early in the reign of James I, Shakespeare's Macbeth is a typical "Jacobean" tragedy in many important respects. Referred to superstitiously by actors as "the Scottish play" the script commemorates James's national heritage by depicting events during the years 1040 to 1057 in his native Scotland.
A definition of damnation is `everlasting torment', which is the fate of damned souls who go to Hell. At the beginning of the play Macbeth is a honourable, courageous and noble man; this is said by the messenger " But all's to weak; for brave Macbeth disdaining fortune with his brandished steel, which smoked with bloody execution, like valour's minion." Although Macbeth is good at the beginning of the play but he is perhaps still damned from the very beginning. Even before Macbeth meets the witches there is some connection...
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