Macbeth Character Analysis

Evil can be categorized into two forms, moral evil and natural evil. Moral evil is brought about by bad choices that stem from our free will. Natural evil is bad things that happen to people, whether they deserve them or not. The problem with evil is,

Macbeth’s character has developed significantly up to the second act. We are first introduced to Macbeth character in a way that we view him as powerful and Nobel. We get this idea from the quote “oh valiant cousin, worthy gentleman” which is what he is described as by Duncan, who at the time is the king. From this quote Macbeth is portrayed as a loyal and heroic figure who has done much for many, however as we know this was not a smart move for Duncan to make as it makes him come across and weak and seems like Duncan should be giving Macbeth a higher title, which is what the witches had told him before. In addition, this idea of the king complementing Macbeth about all the good that he has done seems to trigger the belief that Macbeth has the ability to be king, even in the eyes of Duncan who is so ecstatic what he has done for the county.

Everyone has evil inside of them, it is just a matter of how much evil is within

People are always getting into situations that have two possible ways to go. That person can choose the right thing to do or the worse. There have been numerous amounts of people asking the question “what is good and evil?” Many have tried conducting experiments to try and find the roots of what makes people good/evil? Evil acts and evil itself can be shown through the social, economic, and mental environment.

In the play “Macbeth” the author furthers the ideas of ambition, manhood and violence throughout the play using a gender lens, mainly for masculinity in men. In the play “Macbeth” ambition plays a big role in the man characters life; Macbeth. In Act 1 scene 3, lines 125-129, “And oftentimes, to win us to our harm; The instruments of darkness tell us truth.” (Shakespeare 1.3.125-129). This quote stated by Banquo foreshadows Macbeth further into the play. Macbeth ends up killing King Duncan because he wants to be in power over the kingdom. When Banquo questions Macbeth about the killing of King Duncan, Macbeth’s ambition to kill Banquo skyrocketed. Macbeth didn’t want anybody to think or know that he ended up killing King Duncan for power. This started a cycle of death for Macbeth’s ambition to kill to stay in power. This example of ambition from “Macbeth” has a very similar motif from the movie called “The Mask You Live In”. In the movie, George Orwell states, “He wears a mask and his face grows to fit it.” The idea of the mask he wear fits his face helps us further the reason for men’s ambitions. Men’s ambitions are driven by power and dominance over people and prized possessions. For men to be able to gain power, they need to prove how masculine they are to society. In doing so they are dehumanizing their biological thoughts and feelings and turning them into artificial ones in order to be seen more powerful or dominate to the public.

life that turn them into evil. We are all born a blank slate and we pick up after what we

People enjoy doing evil and harm rather than good. This can be seen in The Hunger Games when Katniss is taken down by Clove. Katniss is pinned down as Clove makes fun of her and threatens to carve her face with a knife. Clove is enjoying hurting Katniss and it makes her genuinely happy. Humans also have a strong urge to do evil. In The Lord of the Flies, the group of boys circle around Robert and hurt him as though he is a pig and Ralph feels as though “the desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering” (Golding 164). Humans also go back to doing evil because they feel that it is the best way to get things done. An example of this in the film The Hunger Games is when Cato and his group leave a boy from District 3 to watch their supplies while they are gone. Cato returns to see all the supplies destroyed and instead of communicating and working out the problem with the boy on guard, Cato kills him with his bare hands. It is very difficult to stay away from evil even after being trained to behave

People can experience evil without becoming evil by ignoring it, not caring what others think about them and overcoming evil with good. There is a lot of evil in the world and people have to do the best they can to experience evil without becoming evil.

Evil is something everyone has in them, but it isn’t always expressed the same way in everyone. Evil can be oftenly be expressed when someone is down on the selves and feel like they need immediate and major change. Most are curious as to if people are naturally born with evil or they learn it overtime. The only logical reasoning would be to learn evil over our lives, because when we are born we essentially know nothing until we mature and read books and are educated. Therefore we learn about and see evil being used and asses it to ourselves.

Evil is the act of intentionally effecting another person's life negatively. I have come to this conclusion in my life because I feel the bad in my life that is the most difficult to recover from is the kind caused by humans. We can not control natural disasters or diseases for the most part, they are inevitable. These may devastate people's lives, but it is all simply the order of nature. Humans though, can control their actions. When they hurt, they choose to do so. Their evil acts are never inevitable or natural they are malicious and horrible.

Evil is in the eye of the beholder. Just like how evil is possible in places or people even when they seem incapable to do so. The short story “ The Possibility of evil” by Shiley Jackson is about a woman struggling to find a sense of belonging and value in a growing and changing town. Shirley Jackson asserts that while people strive to be good they are prone to have a misconception on what is right and wrong or behave in evil ways when feeling vulnerable and unvalued which perpetrates a cycle of evil.

True Evil Evil is all around, at every moment, it’s just a matter of how it chooses to come out and what side of the story one may stand on. Views on evil may range from seeing it as a plague, or used as an instrument, it puts fear into people’s minds to keep them in order. Others may believe there is no good without evil so they go hand in hand. It seems there are so many views on evil it may just be a perspective, as Thomas Hobbes theory states man level good and evil to things they desire, own, hate, or disagree with. Theories like Sigmund Freud also explain desire leads to the opportunity of evil, if taken over it may cause a person to act in a beastly way to get what they want for example power.

A person’s decisions and actions influence people around them. Therefore, if a person makes bad decisions, then the people they associate with will most likely do the same thing. People choose who they hang around. If they are surrounded by negative people, they are going to make negative decisions. Not everyone thinks of the consequences that their actions are going to cause. Evil is more dramatic in some more than others if they have negative people or subjects in their life.

Evil is something in our world that is very overlooked and not talked about. To be “evil” is to encourage harm or hate toward another person other than yourself. But Why is there evil? If a person is evil, are they born evil? Or what makes a person evil? There has always been a constant feud between the nature vs. nurture debacle. The say that nature “theory holds that genetic influence over abstract traits” however, it is nurture that affects our behavioral innocence. People, places, and our experiences can affect how we act towards others. How behavior is a huge factor when dealing with other people. It can affect how we treat others and how others treat us.

This is particularly shown by murderers or burglars who go on crime sprees just because it completely takes over them. For example, the famous Jack the Ripper, although it is never known how many people were known by that, constantly killed people and ripped out their organs. However, there was no way he was born evil, as something in his life must have influence him to act that way. In addition, once he started this crime, he seemed to be unable to stop performing evil actions. Also, Jack “Superthief” MacLean stole extremely expensive jewels from homes all around Florida. He started with just one robbery and the trend continued until his eventual arrest. As a result, it is clear that because one crime can lead to another, we cannot say that these people were born evil, but just made evil