ABSTRACT
The conditions of exile and being at home are opposites, apparently mutually defining. The most unnerving form of exile, then, must be exile in the home - when that which should be the safest, most intimate, the most at-an-end becomes alien and restless. Such an uncanny exile is a common feature of tragedy and of tragic figures,2 but of none more so than Macbeth. What can looking at this play in terms of the motif of exile show us? And, in turn, what can this play tell us about the concept of exile?
