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Essay about Analysis of Macbeth and His Struggle for Power

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In William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, there is a constant struggle for power by Macbeth that leads to many problems, not only for himself, but for the very nature of Scotland as well. While examining the play Macbeth, we will prove how Macbeth’s ambition for power will affect the natural order of the world and show how he is an unjust ruler. In the beginning of the play Macbeth, Macbeth was viewed as a righteous and brave man; and had helped his cousin the king in stopping a rebellious thane. In the next scene Macbeth and Banquo meet three witches that foretell Macbeth’s future by saying “All hail Macbeth! Thane of Glamis! All hail Macbeth Thane of Cawdor! All hail Macbeth that shalt be king after!” (I, iii, 51-53) After hearing …show more content…

In the letter he tells her about the witches and their prophecy. Lady Macbeth, during this act, is far more ambitious than her husband Macbeth, and when he finally arrives back, she tries to convince Macbeth to kill Duncan for the crown. For she knows that Macbeth is “too full o’th’ milk of human kindness…”(I, iv, 17) to do it by himself. In the argument, Macbeth, who has still not let ambition overtake him yet, is still a righteous and honorable man, and gives many explanations about how he can’t and won’t kill Duncan. In the quote by Machiavelli, it states that “For whereas in general the conspirator has to fear before the execution of his plot , in this case he has also to fear sequel to the crime; because on account of it he has the people for an enemy, and thus cannot hope for any escape” (XIX) Macbeth realizes this, for he knows that if he kills Duncan the fallout of the deed would not stop there and he would have to commit more crimes to cover it up, and by doing so he would lose the faith of the people and become an unjust ruler. However, Lady Macbeth does not know this, and she asks the spirits to make her as evil and persuasive as possible, so she ends up asking them to “Come, you spirits, that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here…” (I, iv, 47-8) She asks this so she can better manipulate her husband’s mind in doing the act, which at the end of the Act I she successfully does. The act that finally convinces Macbeth to do this evil however, is

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