Macbeth and Dilemmas
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Nought's had, all's spent.
Where our desire is got without content:
'Tis safer to be that which we destroy
Than, by destruction, dwell in doubtful joy. (Macbeth 3.2.6-7).
This quotation, spoken by Lady Macbeth, demonstrates the idea Shakespeare develops in the play Macbeth, regarding dilemmas and Shakespeare says if problems are not worked out, they may escalate into major predicaments. Shakespeare uses the character development of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth to illustrate this concept.
In the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth is portrayed as an evil character, in regards to her thoughts and actions prior to the murder of Duncan:
Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;" (1.5...