Internal Struggles In Macbeth

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Do you have a moral struggle within in your life? This is when a person internally struggles with oneself. A person can have a conflict internally by deciding to make the right decision and being indecisive. If someone is stuck on deciding if they are making the right decision, they can become scared and start to lose their sanity. They contemplate their options, but just do not know which one to take and that causes them to struggle internally. The Thane of Cawdor, Macbeth served under King Duncan of Scotland. Macbeth is one of King Duncan’s noblest soldiers he has and he has a great lust for power. The protagonist in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Macbeth faces internal moral struggles throughout the play from his initial decision to …show more content…

Lady Macbeth questions his manliness to an extent to where Macbeth feels that he is now inclined to kill the Duncan to show that he is a man and he can do manly deeds. Macbeth kills Duncan with a knife and after he has killed him he says to his wife "I'll go no more:/ I am afraid to think what I have done;/ Look on't again I dare not" (II.ii.48-50). At this moment, Macbeth is telling his wife he cannot go back or bare to think of what he has just done. He is in shock from the grievous murder he just committed. He does not want to look into the past and remember killing King Duncan. Internally, Macbeth is sorrowing over killing the king. He is scared to think about killing the king. The murder has Macbeth stressed out internally. Lady Macbeth thinks her husband is being a coward. She is wondering why her husband is not being manly like he usually is. Now that he is back at his house with his wife, Macbeth "[Thought he] heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more!/ Macbeth does murder sleep" -the innocent sleep" (II. ii. 33-34). Macbeth is talking to his wife about the things he just heard. Macbeth thinks he is hearing voices. He thinks these voices are coming back to haunt him for the murder of King Duncan. His hands are covered in King Duncan's red blood. Lady Macbeth asks Macbeth why is it that he feels so scared and why he is letting himself become so weak. Emotionally, Macbeth is scared inside that …show more content…

They start to corrupt Macbeth by giving him these prophecies that "Now o'er the one halfworld/ Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse/ The curtained sleep. Witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings" (II i.49-52). The witches have started to corrupt Macbeth. They make him think the stuff the tell him will happen, which it really will happen, but in the end it comes back to haunt him. Macbeth learns how to take in how to be evil. He has to be evil in order to do the deed of killing King Duncan. Macbeth does not know how to take this new role of being this devilish figure. It is hard for him to go from being the good noble warrior and leader he was to the evil and cruel man he has to become. Inside, Macbeth is confused with who he wants to become. He cannot decide if he wants to continue to be the good person or become this monster of a human being. Macbeth has "connection between [the] belief in witches and [his] moral dereliction is extended to the relationship between Macbeth and his lady” (McLuskie 108). Macbeth’s wife tells him things that she believes he can do, but Macbeth contradicts doing them and doubts these things she tells him. These things that Lady Macbeth tells him corrupts him in the same value as the way the witches corrupt Macbeth. Hunter Edwin believes that Macbeth "most likely, no matter how ingenious the lure of the

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