Sleeplessness And Greed Quotes In Macbeth

Elier Meraz Barrera

English

11/3/14

Sleeplessness & Guilt “So I’ll ask you a question, if your life were the prize, would you kill the innocent? Would you sacrifice your humanity? Would you do the unthinkable, for your own gain? We all make choices, but in the end, our choices make us”, that’s what Andrew Ryan’s believed. In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare there is betrayal, murder and lust for power. Where a noble, honorable man losses his morality. Where a woman’s greed drives her to make rash decision eventually driving her insane. Guilt in some cases can be worse than death.

The main character of the play is named Macbeth. Macbeth is a dynamic character; he starts off as the protagonist and turns antagonist. For his selfish gain he plots to kill

He starts to imagine things, when he’s alone he’s debating if he should kill the king, he imagines a bloody dagger in fount of him he reacts by saying “is this a dagger I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight?”(2.1.33-37), Is a direct result of lack of sleeping which is making him see things that aren’t actually there. Ones he kills Duncan and takes his throne. He makes the rash decision to kill Banquo. Once he kills banquo he sees him he “ prithee, see there! Behold, look, lo! How say you? Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too. If charnel houses and our graves must send those that we bury back, our monuments shall be the news of kites”(3.4.69-73) he says once he see the ghost of