Selfishness And The Influence Of Lady Macbeth

Throughout the story the character’s change in many ways. Lady Macbeth, a main character comes out generous and strong then turns out corrupted. Lady Macbeth led her husband to major tragedies in the story. She turned into a complete different person by making wrong decisions. Lady Macbeth is a highly corrupted character because of her behavior, she is selfish, and can easily be blamed for Macbeth’s downfall.

People have control over what they do in life, but not everyone thinks before they do. Some of the actions that people do commit may result in positive or negative outcomes. In Shakespeare Macbeth, Macbeth the main character suffers many consequences because of the bad decisions that he has made in order to get himself in power and to keep his power from those who may want to take it away from him, this may lead to consequences that the character faces in the future. Macbeth is expected to be a loyal and courageous soldier that the audience may not think to be a murdures, unloyal and disobedient person. Throughout Macbeth, Macbeth is successful of becoming king because of the influence of Lady Macbeth of telling Macbeth to kill him. Although Macbeth does obtain all this power Shakespeare does not allow him to live the good life for long, instead he makes him suffer through the witches that tell him the prophecies about how powerful he will become. That makes him very confident and that is where all his actions are that lead to consequences that he suffers throughout the book. At the end of the play Macbeth is not rewarded for the actions that he has committed to become king but shows how Macbeth’s actions lead to his death at the end.

What does Shakespeare's “Macbeth” show us about human nature and how a person's ambition can drive them to do very foolish, and dangerous things to get what they want. In this I will take a look at how ambition or desire can affect a person's judgement, as well as affect themselves and the people around them.

In Macbeth ambition plays a huge role in character devolvement. Ambition affects four of the major characters. The characters are Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Malcom, and Banquo. The sisters are the source of Ambition. It is as if they control ambition. The ambition the sisters’ control is negative ambition. Ambition is, wanting to have more then you have and wanting it now.

Any sensible person would like to think that not just anyone can become a murderer. However, debates about how human nature and nurture influence people continue today as they did in the past. In the play Macbeth, Shakespeare plays with this idea using the influences and characterization of Macbeth. At the start of the play, Macbeth and Banquo win a battle for Scotland and Macbeth is rewarded with the title of Thane of Cawdor right after 3 witches predict that he will become the Thane of Cawdor and the new King. Macbeth is now convinced he has to be the king, his wife, Lady Macbeth helps him with his plan. Although he succeeded in becoming king, he really just started his own downfall where in order to stay in power, he has to betray many old friends. Macbeth is influenced by society and others. The desires inside him become overruling. In the end, the negative influences win. Although he has many influences in his life, in the end, Macbeth gives in the forces that end up destroying him.

In Shakespeare’s, The Tragedy of Macbeth, the main character Macbeth is an evil and selfish person who is only out for himself no matter who he hurts.

One of the prominent themes is appearance versus reality, the duality of human nature. In Macbeth we see this theme numerous times in many of the scenes. In act 1 scene 3 Macbeth meets the witches for the first time they give him the vision of being ‘thane of Cawdor’ and thereafter the ‘king’ himself. After the vision we begin to see that Macbeth has begun pondering whether he shall murder Duncan and taking his ‘rightful’ place as king. However at the end of this scene he begins to think in a rational manner and states “If chance may have me king, why chance may crown me without my stir” and “Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day” this shows that he believes that if it is a prophecy then it will come true without him having to do anything. Banquo had warned Macbeth that “oftentimes to win us to our harm these instruments of darkness tell us truths…to betray us in deepest consequence” although Macbeth stubbornly overlooked

During 1606, women were supposed to behave as an object and irrelevant to society, however, in contrast, Lady Macbeth was an ambitious woman who was extremely selfish. James I was on throne of Scotland and England in Shakespeare’s time, he was afraid of supernatural, anyone will be executed for being caught in witchcraft, so throughout the play, James I think Lady Macbeth was dangerous. The most critical reason that led Lady Macbeth became cruel and bitter was she had experienced loss of the child as we were introduced to the play.

As human beings, there are times where we choose between right or wrong. It can come into effect on how other people judge you based on their views of whats right or whats wrong. In the play Macbeth, William Shakespeare displayed a darker and wrong side of humankind. Three main characters, in particular, showed similar traits of greediness. Banquo, who appears to be noble fails to resist his desires; Lady Macbeth overrules herself with greed to a fate of anguish. And finally, Macbeth becomes engulfed with greed that leads to horrible deeds. Shakespeare emphasizes that desire for power and wealth can overrule morality in human nature.

The conflict amidst Macbeth and his significant other, Lady Macbeth, who doesn't trust he's an sufficient man to kill the lord. The Individual Versus Self is a key conflict within Macbeth. All through the play Macbeth is filled with blame, dread and doubt. He doesn't believe his own mind and this is amazingly evident when Macbeth is enthralling visitor for a victory and has been advised about Banquo's passing. He begins to show the photo of Banquo at the table. His blame shows signs of improvement of him as he challenge Banquo's picture arriving saying, "Avaunt, and quit my sight! Give the Earth a chance to protection up there." He knows Banquo is dead and proceeds with “Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is equable. The inmost battle aimed

Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most amazing tragedies, where both the ambitious and conscientious feelings of the characters greatly impact the outcome of the play. Macbeth is heavily affected through his ambitious feeling of him wanting to be king, but in the end his conscious wins the internal battle. This is shown through his inner thoughts, his soliloquy and him telling Lady Macbeth that they are not to go through with the killing. Now this may seem puzzling as Macbeth committed a terrible crime, but he was not driven by ambition at the time, but rather by his ambitious wife. When the witches informed him of his future, which stated that he was to be a king, the first thought that came to mind was the murdering of Duncan.

Of all Shakespeare's female characters, Lady Macbeth emerges far beyond the rest — unique for her strength, cruelty, and deceit. Throughout Macbeth she is a driving force with obvious ambitions, but her motive for killing Duncan and her involvement in the murder is unclear. Was she willing to kill for her husband and the status he claims as a result, or was she merely feeding her own selfish desires? With all the scheming and manipulation it is easy to see that she was willing to do anything for the throne, and although Macbeth would become King, she wasn’t planning to kill for him. Lady Macbeth was motivated to murder Duncan by her own lust for power and her potent ambitions to be Queen.

Everyone is influenced by their surrounds, and the people they choose to be around, whether they are being influenced in a positive or negative way, in Macbeth’s case, he was highly negatively impacted. Macbeth starts out as a good person, and good soldier, true to his king, that is, until he meets the weird sisters who predict he himself will be king. With the influence of his wife, he becomes treacherous, and no longer has a know between right and wrong. By the end of the story, Macbeth was so caught up in his ambitious power hungry circle that he ended up getting killed by it, after having just about everyone turn on him. The negative influences that affect Macbeth for the worst throughout the story happen to be his wife, his conscience, and three weird sisters he meets one day in a field; all of these influences change Macbeth for the worst, causing turmoil all throughout the story.

The desire to rule can rule over people. In The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare the desire for political power alters the character of Macbeth. After battle, Macbeth shows his loyalty to King Duncan by saying, “...our duties/ Are to your throne and state children and servants,” (1.4.24-25). Macbeth’s personality leads him to be respectful and faithful to the throne. Macbeth’s loyal personality shifts as he gains a desire for political power. Macbeth’s change in personality starts with his murder of Macbeth, but we see that his original personality still causes him to have guilt. His subconscious punishes him when Macbeth hears whispers that “Glamis has murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor/ Shall sleep no more.” (2.2.40-41). Macbeth’s

Shakespeare expresses the theme ambition throughout the play Macbeth. Through the play both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth both share the characteristic ambition, the question is who has more? Lady Macbeth conveys a more ambitious and desirable person more than her husband.