Change of Heart Shakespeare’s Macbeth really helped me understand the severity that people can change under certain circumstances. The main character, Macbeth, begins as a very respectable and moral person, but by the end of the story he has become a murderous tyrant. It’s hard to tell if Macbeth would have had the same fate if he had never heard the prediction of his future from the three witches. If Macbeth had never heard what the witches had to say, would he have still become king? Or would he have never found the courage to murder for his own personal gain?
Narrative Point of View - Shakespeare put the play in a 3rd person point of view. He focuses mainly on fate and free will with the witches palying on the part foreshadowing Macbeth choices. Shakespeare proves us it's liable due to Macbeth choices on his own freewill that he killed Banquo which the witches said nothing about the death of them rather he is still going to be king wihtout their death. 8. Theme- Fate vs. Free Will- .
The tragedy in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is the result of both his own character and external forces acting on him. The tragic downfall of Macbeth was not determined by one single cause but rather caused by a combination of three dark forces: supernatural, external and internal. The three witches and their dark powers represent the supernatural forces. Lady Macbeth acts as Macbeth’s external force, pushing him towards the bloody deeds. Macbeth’s own ambition and inner desires are the internal forces he battles and they act as the deciding power in bringing him to his downfall.
Macbeth says to Lady Macbeth, “If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well it were done quickly. If Th’ assassination could trammel up the consequences, and catch, with his surcease, success; that but this blow might be-all and the end-all…” (pg21).In this quote we see how Macbeths first thought is to murder the king even when he is concerned about the consequences. Even when he is scared, he still goes and murders the king with the daggers. Macbeth does it without thinking what might happen, and he does it only thinking that without the king he can be king and therefore prove what the witches
Macbeth is then killed, and his head is put onto a pole, and then presented to Malcolm; who becomes the king of Scotland. In concluding this essay from reading the novel readers will realize greed takes a toll on a person’s personality. Greed will turn a non-violent person, into someone who becomes violent in order to get what they want. A person will become ambitious to get what they want and make sure they are the only person with it. In the novel Macbeth wanted all the power to himself, and did whatever he could to get it.
This illusion is one of the witches, sowing the seeds of murder in Macbeth, and ultimately, immediately after he murders Duncan. Further, Macbeth again visits the witches, this time in a plead for further knowledge and is met with additional illusions. Before though, Hecate meets with the witches and states, “Shall raise such artificial sprites / As by the strength of their illusion / Shall draw him on to his confusion: / He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear”(Shakespeare 3.6.26-29). The witches use apparitions to further influence Macbeth this time leading him down a false path. By doing this, Macbeth becomes arrogant and feels invincible.
Also because of making witches being the evil people in the play he would get more funding for his theatre. Also by the king the richest person in Britain at that time. At the beginning Shakespeare had made us think that Macbeth is this heroic figure who is courageously fighting for king and country against the brutal Vikings, however further in the play we discovered that the witches has filled Macbeth with crazy prophesies. Then lady Macbeth devised a plan and forces Macbeth to kill Duncan. Furthermore because of this interference Macbeth is now this malevolent and sly character who ,murdered his own cousin for his self
Although, Macbeth takes the dagger and kills King Duncan, Lady Macbeth was the one who planned to kill him that night and frame his guards. I believe that Lady Macbeth played a huge part in the murder of King Duncan. Macbeth was ambitious about becoming King, yet, at moments he felt uneasy about the idea of murdering Duncan. Lady Macbeth convinced him otherwise challenging his manhood and planning the murder to the finer details. Lady Macbeth went to great measures to make sure Duncan was killed; she even called upon the evil spirits to aid her.
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Macbeth is often read as a cautionary tale about the kind of destruction ambition can cause. Macbeth is a man that at first seems content to defend his king and country against treason and rebellion and yet, his desire for power plays a major role in the way he commits the heinous acts (with the constant push and bullying behavior from his wife of course). Once Macbeth had his little taste of power at the beginning of the play, he seems unable and unwilling to stop killing (men, women, and children alike) in order to maintain his position of power, gain greater power, and secure his eventual position on the throne. Selfishly, Macbeth puts his own desires before the good of his country until he is reduced to mere shell of a human being. Ambition is not Macbeth’s only fatal flaw, but it is certainly one of the most predominant ones.