Macbeth, By William Shakespeare

Everyone has a quality that they do not like about themselves. Some people struggle to be social, others may be too controlling of people. The list goes on and on, but the point is that everybody has a particular quality that they must learn to control or else that particular quality can get out of hand. Of course, one could write a list of characters that have major flaws. There is no better example than William Shakespeare’s character, Macbeth, in The Tragedy of Macbeth. Anyone who has ever read it, could easily identify the fatal flaw that the character Macbeth possesses which is greed. Even though many readers can all agree that greed is Macbeth’s fatal flaw, the argument as to whether or not

As the play goes, Macbeth shows a character of free will. Although his destiny was pre-determined for him by the witches, he took action to believe and to make sure that his prophecies will come true. Macbeth is a strong character with many deep desires that include gaining power, and so throughout the play with the many crimes he had committed, there was no turning back for him. In all, his decisions help shape the future ahead of him.

The play, Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, presents many societal issues, such as the influence of superstition and the supernatural, as well as the continuous desire of the human race for progress and ambitious fulfilment. What a person chooses to do in order to fulfil those desires depends on the individuals themselves, and in the case of Macbeth, he turns to murder in order to advance his social and political standing. The audience’s perception of Macbeth changes throughout the play, beginning with feelings of admiration and approval of his deeds and character, and ending, with the play and as well as his life, as feelings of contempt and disgust at his treachery. This is achieved mainly through the progression of Macbeth’s character development, as well as through the dialogue of himself and other characters.

Often people put their avaricious ambitions before their morals, which creates fear and leads to everlasting violence ultimately resulting in losing oneself to their own overwhelming madness. This is definitely the case of the character of Macbeth in William Shakespeare 's play Macbeth. Macbeth experiences the loss of morality after his unchecked ambition took over. Additionally, Macbeth 's fear of losing power initiated an endless amount of murder. Moreover, Macbeth 's cruel actions lead him to suffer in an overwhelming guilt as darkness and madness dominated his existence.

This quote means that the one who has complete authority is extremely likely to abuse his position. 'Absolute power' refers to complete, unchallengeable power where the holder has no external compulsions and is answerable to none about his actions. It builds on the idea that every human being has the potential to become a 'benevolent dictator' given the right situation. Power, or simply the desire for power, can cause people to act in unintelligible ways. Many examples can be seen throughout history of leaders who have been perverted with power. For example, leaders like Hitler and Napoleon have all committed disgraceful actions during their rule in the hopes of attaining the 'Absolute power'. All through the play Macbeth, the desire for 'Absolute power' is the central compelling force for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. They are dominated with a great yearning for gaining the ultimate power by becoming the King and Queen, and are willing to achieve it by whatever means necessary. Power corrupts their thoughts, behaviours and actions. They become greedy and selfish. As a result of this, they suffer the tragic fate of their own doings. Example of this corruption is first seen when Lady Macbeth decides that she will murder Duncan after reading her husband's letter about the witches prophecies. She refuses to see the difference between right and wrong as she is blinded by the desire

Macbeth, his journey begins as a noble soldier. Whose sole purpose is to protect king and country. However we will see him go from this noble hero to a very power crazed, prideful murder.

Macbeth, though originally a valiant and prudent soldier, deteriorates into an unwise king whose rash decisions conclusively end in the atrophy of his title, power, and position. Several factors contribute to the downfall of Macbeth, which produce a contagion effect and ultimately end with his demise. He receives help from his “inner ambitions and external urgings” which result in his downfall (Bernad 49). The “external urgings” consist of the weird sisters who disclose his prophecies, which enlighten him about Duncan’s throne, and Lady Macbeth who abets Macbeth to realize his deep desires and come to the conclusion to murder Duncan. However, Macbeth is the most significant contributor as he makes his deep desires come to reality. In Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, while the weird sisters and Lady Macbeth are important contributors to Macbeth 's downfall, they are not most responsible. Macbeth is, in fact, the most prominent contributor to his downfall whose actions, decisions, and state of mind lead to his downfall.

In most Shakespearian tragedies, the hero possesses a character trait which under normal circumstances would be a virtue, but which under the special circumstances of the play proves to be a fatal flaw. Macbeth consists of several situations where the hero portrays many such qualities that drive him to commit wrong actions. Macbeth’s desires convinced him to ignore the impact of his actions. In addition, his doubtfulness controlled his consciousness and finally his blindness affected his aptitude to seek reality. An analysis of Macbeth’s actions and behaviour reveals that Macbeth should be justified as a tragic hero validating the belief that he possesses several fatal flaws which eventually resulted in his downfall.

“Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower/ But be the serpent under’t” (I, v, 65-66). In Macbeth, Macbeth is told to deceive everyone because Lady Macbeth says so and he wants to get away with killing Duncan. Lady Macbeth tells him to look innocent but be sneaky attitude and appearance is everything. Macbeth is a loyal soldier and nobleman that fights for his home of Scotland but, when he is acquainted with three witches a prophecy will change his thoughts in two persuasive ways. Macbeth can be viewed as two very different people, a loyal noble and a paranoid killer, as the play proceeds. Throughout the play, the theme that outward appearances are not the true character of a person is clear because Macbeth battles the evident desires of loyalty and ambition representing

The play Macbeth, written by Shakespeare, is about a courageous Scottish general, who strikes with the prophecies by trio witches and his wife spurs that makes him strive for ambition, which eventually leads to his death. Niccollo Machiavell says “Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.” An ambitious person chooses different ways to become successful, either good or sinister way, but depending on the situation. As life consists of challenges and perseverance, the more ambitious a person is, the more greedy it becomes resulting in significant changes to nature. Macbeth’s ambition to become a king leads him to murder Duncan and it renders changes in his character as revealed by his imagination, attitude towards the murder and by his relationship with his wife.

Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a play about the inner struggles of a man who is informed of his possible rise to power, and how those inner struggles ultimately lead to his downfall. The story begins with three weird sister, or witches, planning to meet Macbeth (1.1.1-7). When the weird sisters meet with Macbeth and Banquo, in Act 1, Scene 3, they tell them of three prophecies. The first prophecy, that comes true right away, is that Macbeth will be titled Thane of Cawdor, which the audience learned of in Act 1, Scene 2. The second prophecy is that Macbeth will be the future king of Scotland. The third prophecy is aimed at Banquo, stating that while he will not be king, he will “get kings” (1.3.67), referring to his future family. While Banquo

Macbeth is a play based on King James I, it was written by William Shakespeare, however this play isn’t a king and queen fairy tale, but it’s a play about greed and guilt, chaos and murder and three evil witches who use prophecies to influence Macbeth to do bad things, using flattery would instigate his inner ambition to become king, which in the end doesn’t lead to a very happy ending.

In a lot of stories there is always the main antagonist. Often throughout the stories the antagonist creates many problems in the story on his or her own doing. Everything that they do, they do on their own and there is nothing that influences them to do these things. Sometimes it is quite the opposite, there is perhaps something that greatly influences this person to do the bad things. In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare there is a lot of trying to figure out who is to blame for all of the bad things happening in the play. Macbeth is obviously everyone’s go to guy to blame because he is the one that is committing the act of violence or the one commanding the assault. He is definitely the antagonist of the story because of the things that he does, but is he really the only one to be blamed for these things? I think that in the play Macbeth there are a few people that you could blame: Macbeth, the witches, and Lady Macbeth.

Many famous philosophers including Plato and Aristotle have proposed that all matter and life are part of a strict religious hierarchy called the Great Chain of Being. The Chain starts with God on the top and progresses downward to angels, demons, celestial bodies, kings, nobles, men, wild animals, domesticated animals, trees, plants, and finally minerals. They theorized that when the Chain breaks, chaos follows. William Shakespeare uses the Great Chain of Being in many of his works, including The Tragedy of Macbeth where the disorder in the human world is mirrored through the chaos in the animal kingdom. Shakespeare uses animal imagery in Macbeth as dramatic irony to highlight and emphasize the severity of certain events in order to suggest that nature, unlike man, cannot be deceived by appearances.

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.