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How Does Macbeth Change Throughout The Play

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Macbeth is a famous and well known play created by the one and only Shakespeare in the Elizabethan times. The main character in this play is of course Macbeth, who goes from being a noble war-hero who is honoured by the king to being a worried murderer who cannot stop fretting about his situation: “to be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus…” He used to be a loyal, loving man who would never think of murdering but then suddenly hears what the witches say about his future. This causes him to slowly change into a greedy, murdering, ambitious man who would kill without a second thought. The change in Macbeth’s character proves that if you find out what your future is going to be then you actually end up changing it yourself as you know what you are going to become, even if it means you have to change who you really are to become someone you and everyone else knows your not.

The witches prophecy; ‘Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor and King hereafter’ is what causes Macbeth to change as he now knows what he is going to become. After hearing these words from the three witches, Macbeth knows that he must take risks in order to become King. Macbeth has always been an ambitious man although before he was not as greedy, he just had the usual ambition to strive …show more content…

Macbeth went from being full of empathy and disgusted by murder to a ruthless murderer that is tyrannical and lacks in empathy. After discussing about the plan to murder King Duncan with Lady Macbeth, Macbeth starts to have second thoughts about actually murdering the King. But Lady Macbeth has other plans. By using force and some persuasive convincing Macbeth finally cracked. He murders the king. Then Banquo started to ask questions and avoid other questions, this sparked a chain reaction in Macbeths head. Macbeth knew that Banquo may know that he murdered the King and so therefore he ordered murders to assassinate Banquo. That was the end of his very own

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