"Macbeth"

The night has been unruly: where we lay, our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say, lamentings comprehend i the air; strange screams of death, and prophesying with accents terrible of dire combustion and bewildered events new hatchd to the woeful time: the obscure bird Clamourd the livelong night: some say, the earth was feverous and did shake. (II.iii.54-62)

Death is a person, unyielding those who are waking and those who are sleeping, not differentiating betwixt the two. It kindle transfer the image of its former body, or it can take the shape of the unknown. A spirit, and a portrayer of things to earthly souls.

So it is in Shakespeares Macbeth. Death is feared, as both a time and a supernatural character. When analyzed, however, death is realized not as a time-- unless it is a death--, merely a period of transformation between the physical self and the death-self, creating in the end a ghostlike tragedy.

It cannot be calld our mother, but our grave; where nothing, but who knows nothing, is once seen to grimace; where sighs and groans and shrieks that rend the air are made, not markd; where violent ruthfulness seems a modern ecstasy; the dead mans knell is on that point scarce askd for who; (IV.iii.165-171) this phrase from the play is metaphorical.



It can be taken to be speaking of death in terms of when wholeness dies, yet one may extract from such a phrase, due to its usage of the word and the imagery, that the dead mans knell, signals the individuals transformation from macrocosm to spirit.

Throughout the play, Macbeth is confronted with the image of death, fearing, trembling, and insanity coming upon him. A major enemy between death and Macbeth is during the banquet when he sees the ghost of Banquo. There...

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