Macbeth could have been a very great leader. But with success comes with trouble and struggle; that is exactly what he has gotten himself into. Macbeth has listened to the wrong people, he has lied and killed to get to where he is and in the end, Macbeth came to know that it was not ideal that he did He listened to the wrong people and the only person who could stop himself, would be himself and he figured that out, way too late. Macbeth was, at first, a very noble man but slightly naive; once he started to listen to the wrongs of the witches and his wife, his nobility started to decline. Macbeth was in the dark most of this time and was very unaware of what the consequences of his actions would come to be. " I dare do all that may become …show more content…
After Lady MB realized how guilty murder made her feel, she decided to call it quits as seen in Act V when she began sleepwalking and trying to wash away her guilt, “Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why,then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need wefear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?--Yet who would have thought the old manto have had so much blood in him.” (Shakespeare 5.1.39-44), but not Macbeth! Macbeth continued to murder, because it was the only way he was able to do things, according to the witches. Although the guilt started to eat away at him in Act III during the dinner party when he started to see the ghost of …show more content…
He notices how stupid it was for him to go along with the women. The plan to kill the king was not horrible for him, but the consequences from said action ruined his conscience. Once Macbeth knew that he was in the wrong, it was too late for him to do anything about it; but then again, the power has gone to his head and he generally has no more control over himself. He finally noticed that he was being lied to by the witches in Scene 5, when the birnam wood shows up at his door and when Macduff tells him that he is not born of woman, but C-Section “Thou losest labour: as easy mayst thou the intrenchant air with thy keen sword impress as make me bleed: let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests; I bear a charmed life, which must not yield, to one of woman born.” (Shakespeare 5.8.8-18) argued Macbeth, Macduff replies “Despair thy charm; and let the angel whom thou still hast served tell thee, was from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd.” (Shakespeare 5.8.8-18) “Accursed be that tongue that tells me so, for it hath cow'd my better part of man! And be these juggling fiends no more believed…” (Shakespeare 5.8.8-18) Macbeth threw back at Macduff. Macbeth found that everything he knew, was just to get him to do as others wanted. Macbeth was in the wrong, in which he knew that he was, Macbeth knew that the murder was wrong but he was too full of himself to
At this point, Shakespeare has provided sufficient evidence to prove that Macbeth is mentally troubled. His death and his mental deterioration are inevitable. He is haunted by the deeds he has done and the witches’ prophecies. Macbeth claims that life is utterly meaningless when he says, “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player/ That struts and frets his hour upon the stage/ And then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury/ Signifying nothing.” (5.5 27-31). He no longer has the will to live with knowledge of what he has done. The witches, however, have revealed that he cannot be killed by “one of woman born.” Upon hearing this, Macbeth believes himself to be invincible. During the battle of Dunsinane, he fights recklessly against his foes, under the impression that none can harm him. Macduff then enters the scene. He reveals that he was not of woman born but “from his mother’s womb / Untimely ripped” and therefore has the ability to kill Macbeth (5.8 19-20). Afraid for his life, Macbeth remains persistent and declares that he will not surrender. In the end, Macbeth is slain and Malcolm becomes King of Scotland. Ultimately, Macbeth’s mental deterioration led to his downfall and imminent death. Before Macduff slew him, Macbeth was almost wishing for death. He was overwhelmed with guilt, regret, ambition, power, paranoia, and the blood on his hands.
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a tragedy in which the main characters are obsessed by the desire for power. Macbeth’s aspiration for power blinds him to the ethical implications of his dreadful acts. The more that Shakespeare’s Macbeth represses his murderous feelings, the more he is haunted by them. By analyzing his hallucinations it is possible to trace his deteriorating mental state and the trajectory of his ultimate fall. Throughout the play Macbeth is never satisfied with himself. He feels the need to keep committing crime in order to keep what he wants most: his kingship. The harder Macbeth tries to change his fate the more he tends to run into his fate. His ambition and struggle for power was Macbeth’s tragic flaw in the play. Macbeth’s rise to the throne was brought about by the same external forces that ensure his downfall.
Macbeth is a brave Scottish general that receives a prophecy from three witches that he will one day become King of Scotland. In the beginning of the story you first meet Macbeth as a kind, innocent young man but as the story progresses he becomes the most hated man out there. Macbeth has the pressure of whether or not he wants to kill Duncan so that he can become king and at first he doesn't want to. However, as he talks to Lady Macbeth he conforms to her thoughts and opinions and ends up killing him. This leads to a whole new Macbeth who ends up losing site of who he truly is. He starts to care more about having the power then actually caring about his friends and family. This even leads him into killing his best friend Banquo and in the end Macbeth gets killed. This is a perfect example of why following your own thoughts and not conforming to others is better in the long run. Along the way Macbeth ended up losing the most important thing, himself just because he decided to conform to the thoughts of his
...d, he is apathetic to her death. All he holds value of is keeping his crown, and his greed for power leads to his cockiness in his last battle with Macduff. Because he does not believe one of women-born can stop him, he overlooks Macduff, and when Macduff’s history is revealed, Macbeth loses all confidence and loses the battle, and his life.
So McBeth returned to them which is in Act IV Scene I wanting to know if everything he has done so far has protected himself and his spot in royalty, this shows he is being controlled by the witches lies and schemes. MacBeth second encounter of the witches starts out with one of the witches saying “By the pricking of my thumb, something wicked this way comes.”(4.1.1594-1597). This is the first time in the play that MacBeth is recognized as a wicked person, even though no said he was wicked we can tell his personality and demeanor have changed from the first meeting to the next meeting of the witches. This is a great example of how MacBeth is the one who is in control and doing bad deeds to fulfill his prophecies of being king. MacBeth demands them to tell him what is going on, so MacBeth is taking more into his own hands, unlike earlier in the play where Lady MacBeth did all the planning. Though the witches tempt MacBeth when they tell him that No harm will come to MacBeth until Birnam Woods Marches up to Dunsinane castle. MacBeth does not consider the illusion of trees really moving. The witches also say no one born of a woman may harm MacBeth which sounds like no one will hurt him at all but MacDuff had a C-Section at birth. MacBeth thinks all these things are a confidence boost which could sound like fate but this leads MacBeth to his downfall and MacBeth is still in
...for him transformed to something virtually worthless because of what his acts of betrayal led him to become. Macbeth originally thought that his virtues and values could never crumble despite the influence of someone else. Macbeth abandons his values, and pursues a journey of deceiving and betraying acts. Macbeth embraces a transformation of character that leads him to a state of depression by the end of the play. The irony of Macbeth presents itself through the motif of betrayal. Macbeth thought through acts of betrayal he would find greater significance, but ultimately directed him down a path that only involved the betrayal of himself.
(II, ii, 35) His innocence was killed and he knows that he has to live with this guilt for the rest of his life, hence Macbeth will never sleep peacefully ever again. After each successive murder, Macbeth becomes more and more inhumane. “I am in blood Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o 'er.” (III, iv, 143-145)
Macbeth capitalized on this statement and truly believed that this made him invincible, because all people are born from women. However, he did not realize the play on words that was taking place. Because he states to Macduff, “I bear a charmed life, which must not yield to one of woman born” (V. viii. 12-13). In reality, Macduff was born through surgery and not naturally through his mother. This flaw of believing in the witches and feeling invincible due to the apparitions’ prophecies led to Macbeth’s demise, because ultimately he was killed by Macduff. It was not just a single flaw that brought Macbeth down but many. These flaws continued and built up to the point where Macbeth became depressed, mentally unstable, and heartless. When hearing that his wife committed suicide, Macbeth merely explains how “ she should have died hereafter. Thee would have been a time for such a word” (V. v. 17-18). One would have expected to hear a more surprised and mournful reaction to hearing the news of a spouse’s death. However, this flawed character seems to have lost his purpose in life and was waiting for his victory to come. Macbeth’s character had many flaws from the very beginning, and because of the amount of faults, it is best to describe him as a flawed character rather than a tragic
Macduff was the first to openly defy Macbeth by his decision to go to his castle in Fife rather than Macbeth’s coronation in “Scone” (2.4). Macduff flees to England to rally support and revolt against Macbeth (4.3). Macduff acts on his free will, uninfluenced by the power of Macbeth nor others, and does what he believes to be the best for himself and everyone else. He retains his independent thoughts and his sense of masculinity despite the consequences he might suffer, standing his grounds with his beliefs and ideology of being a true patriot. Later on, upon hearing the news of his family’s murder, Macduff shows his sensitivity: “I shall [disput it like a man], but I must also feel it like a man” (4.3). He depicts the ability to have emotions and link it to his masculinity as a part of human traits, embracing his weaknesses and flaws and showing that he also acts as he believes he should act. The sharp contrast between Macbeth’s cowardly actions and Macduff’s strong will is shown at the final battle between the two; Macbeth refuses to fight with Macduff when Macbeth learns Macduff is that one person in the prophecy that would defeat Macbeth until Macduff threatens to capture him alive and humiliates him in front of the crowd (5.8).Once again, Macbeth masculinity is threatened, and he gives in to the threat rather than stand his ground, leading to his ultimate demise. Macduff’s
When the three witches had met with Macbeth, and then he had told his wife, he did not feel sure that murdering the King was right, although he was the King’s savior. When Lady Macbeth hears about the news, she awakens, starts to plot Duncan’s murder and backstabbs Macbeth to kill him. She tells him to ‘be a man and go get what he wants’. At this point, Macbeth doesn’t have a choice. When she thinks that she can kill the King, she cries, “Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex
Lady Macduff says that Macduff’s “flight was madness (IV.ii.3)” and “He wants the natural touch (IV.ii.9)” because he is betraying Macbeth and his family. Because of Macduff’s so-called betrayal she even says to her son, “Sirrah, your father’s dead (IV.ii.30).” However, the Son of Macduff does not believe this is the truth. The son disputes the mother’s claim by saying, “My father is not dead for all your saying (IV.ii.37)” and “If he were dead, you’d weep for him (IV.ii.59).” Lady Macduff’s perspective is based on a natural order that has been disrupted, but the Son’s innocence contradicts her view and relies on an original natural order where Macbeth is the traitor and Macduff is good. Like the witches, we only know that the Son of Macduff is telling the truth by the end of the
In conclusion, if Macbeth was more headstrong in his scruples and his honored his position with integrity, he would have never been persuaded to do any of the horrible things he did. Macbeth was not an obstinate man; he was compliant with everything and rarely questioned what was asked of him. It wasn’t a lack of wisdom necessarily, but a lack of judgment, which created his impressionable flaw that ultimately leads to his demise.
When the witches told Macbeth that no man born of a woman could harm him, he would not be defeated until the forest came to his castle, and that his only threat was Macduff, Macbeth felt very secure about his kingship. Little did Macbeth know, that all of these foretellings would bring about his demise. Macduff was born out of a dead woman, so he was the only one who could hurt Macbeth. When Malcolm's army attacked Macbeth's castle, they camouflaged themselves with trees, thus giving the appearance of the forest coming to the castle. Finally, Macduff was the only thing that Macbeth had to worry about, because he was not born of a woman, and could kill Macbeth. Macbeth completely disregarded the Witches' prophecies because he thought of them as rubbish. Had the three witches told Macbeth the real truth that they ticked him out of believing, Macbeth would not have gotten so cocky as a result of his security.
...evenge and engages Macbeth in swordplay. Macbeth is confident. However, it is quickly crushed when Macduff boldly states that he had been “untimely ripp’d” (5.8.20) from his mother’s womb. At this moment, Macbeth understands the full extent of the Witches’ deception. He is no longer living a charmed life of invincibility and must fight for his life. It is here that Macbeth’s courage returns when he refuses to surrender, “Yet I will try the last” (5.8.37).
Through the development of this tragedy, Macbeth has turned from a fine natured person to an evil person. His ambition, strong belief in the witches, has brought him to a tragic end of his life, and caused many people to lose their