• Ritushmita Sharma

This study is an undertaking to depict in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth that how conscience interface. For instance, how conscience sounds, how it looks like, and how it feels for a human being to find oneself with the workings of conscience. Along with the representation of conscience, Macbeth is a play with many references pointing to the theme of equivocation as well. Macbeth presents before us an atmosphere where the theme of equivocation, the feeling of uncertainty and ambiguity became the condition of the play. This kind of atmosphere in the play receives its most well-defined and striking expression in the Weird Sisters’, i.e. the three witches’ equivocation and their fair/foul paradoxes, but it is not only limited to their forecasting riddles. Infact it is through the play’s equivocal atmosphere which is responsible for creating problems of intelligence throughout and later on prefiguring the problems of differentiation and discernment in the personality of Macbeth. Thus, the primary objective of this paper is to bring forth the equivocal ethics and compunctions of Macbeth as a crisis of signification. As Shakespeare’s period put considerable energy into explaining the ideas related to conscience, this paper also aims to reveal how the cacophony of sounds and the chaos of sights which greet and haunt Macbeth all the time after committing the murders, fails to convey to him the judgements of conscience with clarity.

conscience, equivocation, uncertainty, ambiguity

"The antagonism of Equivocal Conscience in Shakespeare’s Macbeth", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 8, page no.1-4, August 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906Y96.pdf

"The antagonism of Equivocal Conscience in Shakespeare’s Macbeth", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 8, page no. pp1-4, August 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906Y96.pdf