Good And Evil In Macbeth

In society, people perform both good and bad actions and these actions are interpreted as reflections of their personalities. As a result, society has come to believe that bad people do bad things and good people do good things. Being so straightforward, this philosophy fails to grasp the intricacy that is involved when a person is performing an action. More accurately, a person’s ethical standpoint defines the level at which the incentive must be in order to override the person’s ethical beliefs. Therefore, the only way to blame a person for committing an evil act would be to accuse the person of having too little morality if a small incentive is enough to influence their behavior.

Every person has an inherent ambition and greed which influences them to covet certain

Someone with a smaller, weaker barrier is more likely to come across incentives which are powerful enough to overcome his moral barrier. As a result, a person like this is classified immoral and even, in some cases, evil since that person commits immoral acts more frequently. Lacking a proper upbringing, people who are barely raised by their parents do not have a powerful moral barrier. Therefore, these people are more likely to turn to crime and drugs because they are easily influenced to do these activities because the incentive, which is often money, does not have to be that strong in order to overcome their limited morality. Macbeth, who is a seemingly moral person at the start of the novel, also commits a dreadful crime. Although he has a sturdy moral barrier, he is incentivized with becoming king which is enticing enough for him that it superseded his moral barrier.. As a result of his powerful desire to become king, Macbeth is willing to perform the assassination of the king and his morality is too weak to stop him. Therefore, even moral people can commit immoral acts if given the right