Views of Macbeth in William Shakespeare's Play

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Views of Macbeth in William Shakespeare's Play Macbeth is introduced in the play as "noble" and faithful to king Duncan, until he meets the "weird sisters" or "witches" who catch on to the little bit of ambition and jealousy inside him. They tell him he will become the "Thane of Cawdor," which quickly becomes true, and he will become the "king of Scotland". When the first of the two predictions comes true, Macbeth's ambition grows. Then King Duncan announces that his son Malcolm " shall succeed to the throne", and Macbeth is appalled, and his thoughts become ominous. When his wife Lady Macbeth hears about "the weird sisters" she too helps the ambition grow and puts evil plans and ideas in his head because she wants to become a Queen. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth both love and trust each other a lot. We know this because King Duncan speaks of him as loving his wife; " his great love, sharp as his spur, halth holp him". By the end of the play Macbeth has no time or room for love, when Lady Macbeth takes her life he shows his true evil, heartless self. Before he finds out she has died he talks about his heart being full of evil , horrors and fears " I have almost forgot the taste of fears" " I have supped full of horrors." Then when he finds out about her death he replies "she should have died hereafter there would have been a time for such a word," He has been made callous by evil. Macbeth already has ambition inside him and before he meets the "weird sisters" or "witches," he was a loyal Thane and a brave warrior but when the "weird sisters" picked up on his ambitions to become king, they sparked off a whole chain of evil events, which Lady Macbeth instigated which became a treacherous series of killings "Great Glamis, worthy Cawdor, greater than both by the all-hail thereafter." Her greeting implies that he deserves more than being the thane of Glamis and Cawdor and could do better.

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