The scene opens with Macbeth being adamantly opposed to harming King Duncan while he is a guest in Macbeth’s Castle. In the span of less than 40 lines, Lady Macbeth not only convinces Macbeth to kill him but does so in such a thoroughly convincing way as to take our breath away.
There is no reversal of purpose in Shakespeare so brilliantly carried out except for the seduction scene (Act 1 Scene 2) in Richard III, where Anne, who knows that Richard has killed her husband and father-in-law, goes from calling him a "black magician" and "foul devil” in the scene’s opening to accepting his hand in marriage at the close.
What was Shakespeare's point in displaying these abrupt changes of heart?
Perhaps William Blake gives us a clue when he says - "But many are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything."
Act 1 Scene7 - from the 2015 Square Talk, in association with Apollo Arts, production of Shakespeare's Macbeth - directed by Nicolas Walker. (Closed Captions available)
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Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7
Act 1 Scene 7 Macbeth
22 сен 2024
