Macbeth

THE NATURE OF EVIL How does the play portray evil as a perversion of human nature? Show how Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have to go against their own natures in order to kill Duncan. Trace the effect the betrayal of human nature has on each of them. How does the imagery of disease function in Macbeth? Trace the way in which evil works on Macbeth and on Scotland like a sickness. Find imagery to support …

…question by dividing the characters into two groups- those who trust their fate to a higher power, and those who take destiny into their own hands. Which group fares better? How does the imagery relating to time work in the play? Show how Macbeth tries to compress time. Contrast his effort to jump the life to come with the way the honest characters let things happen as nature intends for them, in their own time.