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How Macbeth's Character Changes

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Macbeth’s Character Change
Throughout the play Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, many characters personalities changed. In particular Macbeth’s. Macbeth was humble and kind at the beginning of the play but then somehow towards the end of the play he became a cruel ruler. Lady Macbeth, was the cause of many of these changes, but she is not all to blame. Macbeth became to full of himself and started thinking he was better than everyone. Macbeth went crazy, killing people left and right, including one of his good friends, which just shows how he had changed.
In the start of the play, Macbeth was known as a Scottish general. Macbeth was completely loyal to king Duncan, but also very badly wanted to be king. Macbeth was very envious of …show more content…

The witches said Macbeth would soon be king. With that thought in his head, he decides that he is going to kill Duncan. So Macbeth invites Duncan to come over for dinner and then stay the night at his castle. As the night is going on Macbeth starts to freak out and decides he's not going to go through with the murder, but Lady Macbeth steps in and starts to diminish his manhood. She calls him a coward and says she could kill him if she had to. “Was the hope drunk / Wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since? / And wakes it now, to look so green and pale / At what it did so freely? From this time/ Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard / To be the same in thine own act and valor / As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that / Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life / And live a coward in thine own esteem, / Letting ‘I dare not’ wait upon ‘I would,’ / Like the poor cat i' th' adage” (Shakespeare I. vii. 40-49)? Lady Macbeth keeps calling him a coward and wonders if he is only able to do things when he is drunk. Lady Macbeth diminishing him worked. He decided to go through with the murder that night. This was just the start of his

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