How Does Macbeth Change Throughout The Play

When Ophelia from Shakespeare’s Hamlet says, “We know what we are, but not what we may be,” what Ophelia means by this is that as humans, we do know our personality, but we do not know what we will become or how we will change.

The play Macbeth is about true ambition and powerless character. Macbeth, the main character of the play, has a weak and convincible personality. Throughout the play other characters such as his wife, impact his hideous actions and paranoid mind. Once the three witches tell Macbeth about his fortune and becoming the new king, Macbeth isn't as convinced to take the risks of earning the position which consisted of killing the current king Duncan. His wife on the other hand believes it's the perfect solution.

Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespeare. The play is a tragedy about a general in Scotland's army who kills to become king and how he deals with the following suspicion and uprisals. Over the course of the play Macbeth, Lady Macbeth changes more than Macbeth, because she becomes weaker while Macbeth remains relatively the same.

Throughout the play we see the character of Macbeth change, not only from the way he thinks and speaks, but from his actions as well. Killing Banquo and having Lady Macduff and her children murdered show the insecurity that is present in Macbeth’s character.  After the murder of Duncan, Macbeth becomes paranoid.  This paranoia leads to his killing the guards to help secure the place that he has found for himself.  Macbeth is also very superstitious, which becomes evident when he allows the witches’ prophecy to convince him that Banquo’s offspring would become Kings.

His brutality is balanced by his guilt – a quality that enables the audience to identify with Macbeth throughout the play despite his tyranny. At the start of the play Macbeth is described as a hero and this quality is still present even in his darkest and cruelest moments. Shakespeare suggests this idea by engendering Macbeth to have a strong sense of guilt. When Macbeth is visited by the ghost of Banquo, his best friend who he murdered to protect his secret , he embodies guilt from the presence of his transparent friend. Macbeth shows weakness and almost reveals the truth about King Duncan's murder. However, Macbeth's guilt is not enough to discourage him from his heinous acts of murder. This highlights Macbeth lack of morality as the play

Throughout reading the play, Macbeth changes a lot from being a man of loyalty and honesty, to a man of whom is power hungry and greedy. This shows how the more power you receive the more power you want; which in many cases, such as this one leads to destruction. Many of the choices that Macbeth made were influenced by the power that he had, and this power began to take over him. This then lead to greed and destruction of not only others, but himself as well.

Macbeth was aware of his wrong decisions and was willing to suffer the consequences. He created his own torment which lead to guilt and misery. We cannot assume that Macbeth was a helpless character influenced by his surroundings and had decisions made for him. Despite this influence, Macbeth knew the cost of his actions. His attitude changes through the power of fear, because he relied on the evil entities and behaved according to their prophecies. Macbeth's thoughts of regicide to gain power and how his attitude changed is evident in William Shakespeare's play.

The book The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare is about a young nobleman from a village who is told a prophecy by three witches that he will one day become the king of Scotland. As a person who is known for his honesty and bravery, he is unsure about what to do about the prophecy but his wife, Lady Macbeth, had other plans in mind and decided that the only way for him to become king would be too murder King Duncan. Lady Macbeth’s thirst for power leads her to tempt her husband into committing the crime. After the deed is done, Lady Macbeth becomes engulfed with guilt. Throughout this journey, Lady Macbeth's life changes as her thirst for power consumes her morals and corrupts her soul with guilt.

Lady Macbeth questions his manliness and urges him to go through with killing the king. Her remark is “When you durst do it; then you were a man” (1.7.49). Eventually, macbeth gives into his weakness of feeling the need to prove his manhood, and he murders King Duncan.

After the murder, Macbeth returns with the daggers and Lady Macbeth insists he take back the daggers to make it look like the grooms committed the murder. Macbeth does not want to return because he is fearful to see what he had done so Lady Macbeth is forced to return the daggers herself. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth meet in the courtyard to wash off the blood and he complains that the blood won’t come off his hands. Lady Macbeth says, “My hands are of your colour, but I shame / To wear a heart so white”.

Dark and ominous, Lady Macbeth plays an interesting role in Shakespeare’s work, Macbeth. Lady Macbeth manipulates the other characters in the play and convinces them to act the way she wants. She also has an extremely dark side that she shows by calling on dark spirits. Although Lady Macbeth seems ruthless, she later realizes the consequences of her actions, and regrets them. The feeling of regret proves that Lady Macbeth possesses qualities in addition to dark and insane.

At the beginning of the play, Macbeth is a respected general, a devoted husband, and a loyal subject of the king. The first of the witches' prophecies bring out his ambitious nature, but he struggles with killing the king. By attacking his manhood, Lady Macbeth convinces him to committ the first of his evil deeds. Macbeth's evil deed causes him to suffer from fear and guilt, which leads to even more evil crimes. Then Macbeth becomes paranoid, suffering from hallucinations and sleeplessness. He becomes less human as he tries over and over to establish his manhood. His ruthlessness in killing Banquo and Macduff's family shows how perverted his idea of manliness really is.

people.   The Lady Macbeth is the wife of Macbeth. Her character was inspired from the play ‘Holinshed’s Chronicles’ by Shakespeare. She was a blend of the two personalities that were in the accounts of King Duff and Duncan.

Macbeth’s bravery and loyalty to King Duncan in battle had earned him not only the Kings trust, but the position of thane of

Macbeth is a tragedy written in the 17th century that shows what the desire for power can do to a man. Macbeth is expressed as being the villain. But, Macbeth is in fact a tragic hero, doomed by fate from the beginning into the madness he put himself in. If it not been for meeting the witches and persuasion of his wife, the play would have had a very different ending.