The Role of anger and fear in Macbeth On a level of human hostility the play Macbeth focuses on Macbeth's savage and insane rise to the top. The murder of King Duncan, his guiltless conscience, and his arrogant mentality grows more intense throughout the play. Anger is a strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to …showed first 75 words of 875 total…

…showed last 75 words of 875 total…both fear and anger to do harm to any one he suspects of knowing his crimes. Bibliography Bloom, Harold. William Shakespeare Macbeth. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998 Macbeth - Reviews - Alison Kempton. 1999. http://www.dlc.fi/~frog/essay/papers/macbeth.htm. Viewed on June 09, 2003. Shakespeare, W. Macbeth. New York: Washington square press, 1994 Hugo, Victor William Shakespeare Macbeth (1864), Chicago: A, C McClurg, (1887), pp240-42 Coursen, H.R. Macbeth A Guide to the Play. Library of Congress: 1997