How Macbeth's Character Changes throughout the Play

In the play, Macbeth, Shakespeare uses indirect characterization to compare Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s personalities to convey that one’s actions do not define a person’s identity. In closer view of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, after Macbeth had assassinated King Duncan, he immediately felt guilty for his actions, “ Lisnt’ning their fear. I could not say ‘Amen’/When they did say ‘God bless us”’(2.2.39-40). Macbeth’s sorrowful state of mind after committing treachery portrays him as a man with a frail mind, who cannot stay strong through the actions that he commits. Macbeth can also be described as a cold-blooded man, whose greed for power led him to backstab his own king and kin. However, his actions provide a skewed perception of his true character.

In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth the reader watches as Macbeth changes gradually as the play endures. He are transforms from a loyal person with a loving and loyal disposition with other people, into a tyrants who are willing to kill in order to keep himself on the throne. He is tormented with fear, regret, and guilt. When someone does something they know is wrong it causes them to fall prey to their own emotions.

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Throughout the story of Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Macbeth acts in a much despised manner: he becomes a murderer and later, when king of Scotland, a tyrant. Many who have read or seen the play are left wondering how a man’s whole approach to life can change; how Macbeth turned from the hero whom all adored, to the tyrant who was hated and ended up a lone man, fighting for his life.

Shakespeare is one of the most influential and famous playwrights of modern times. A major reason his work is loved by so many is because of his insightfulness into the human mind, and one of Shakespeare’s greatest works demonstrating this is Macbeth. This famous play is about nobleman and military man Macbeth and how his tragic choices lead to his inevitable demise. The first and most trying choice that Macbeth has to make is whether or not to kill Duncan, the king of Scotland. Macbeth has to make this decision while being pulled in different directions by two conflicting forces. The force pulling him away from murder is his loyalty and humanity towards Duncan. The other force pulling him towards murder is his loyalty towards Lady Macbeth

Lady Macbeth once again manipulates his weakness to blackmail him into killing King Duncan. This adds on to Macbeth’s character development, because as of now he is still a coward, but later in the play, he becomes a cruel tyrant as shown through murdering Macduff’s family. Therefore, by the acting as the trigger to Macbeth’s ambition and formulating plans that lead to it, evidently highlights the role of Lady Macbeth and the inciting force of her character in the play.

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“As [King Duncan’s] host” Macbeth feels that it is his responsibility to prevent the killing of the King, not to be the one who executes the plan. However, even with all his doubts and morals, Macbeth is overruled by his ambition and he decides to kill his “kinsman.” That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps

When the three witches predict the fate of Macbeth (he will soon become King), he immediately becomes obsessed with his supposed-to-be- reality and leaves behind the blood of King Duncan to further increase his chances. At this point in time, the dagger in which he used to kill King Duncan becomes a constant reminder of his guilt. In Scene one of Act two, the dagger appears to Macbeth in the form of an apparition; “Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come let me clutch thee (Act 2. SC.1 Lines 44-46).

Macbeth displays three character traits one is ambitious. Macbeth is an example of terrible ambitious and guilt can have on a man who lacks of character. Through the play they make it seem like macbeth is a evil person. His character shows that he is not very strong. The beginning of the play macbeth is introduced as loyal and trustworthy warrior.

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I might want to begin with Lady Macbeth. In the play her character emerges a long ways past the rest. A portion of the character portrayals of Lady Macbeth are as per the following:

comes to an agreement with himself that he will not go out of his way

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In the play Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, Macbeth one of the main characters throughout the play changes a lot from the beginning to the end of the play. At the start of the play Macbeth is loved by mostly everyone in the kingdom and is known to be a big war hero. But throughout the play Macbeth wants to become King and this obsession of wanting to become King drags Macbeth down as he becomes hated by the end of the play and is considered to be evil.