Shakespear Corruptness Quotes

In Macbeth, a brutal tragedy by William Shakespeare, the author explores how when gone unchecked, power can corrupt all those surrounded by it. Lady Macbeth’s lust for power and Macbeth’s impressionable arrogance ultimately cost them their lives, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. Notably, after hearing from Macbeth the witches prophecy, Lady Macbeth becomes obsessed with the idea of her husband becoming king. Willing to risk anything she formulates a plan and aggressively pushes Macbeth to murder King Duncan, insulting and manipulating him until he agrees. She chastises Macbeth, insulting his manhood and insisting that “when durst do it, then you were a man”. Lady Macbeth manipulates her husband into thinking

This alone proves Macbeth’s awful and tyrannical ways, and his trust of Malcolm proves that he would not rule in tyranny. Finally, Macbeth can be seen to have excessive amounts of self pride and confidence. He refuses to be the lesser man in any

With attention to the murder of King Duncan, Macbeth struggles with the morality of his actions. Before the murder takes place, Macbeth begins to believe that the murder will “be the be-all and the end-all” to his clear conscious and would risk him to eternal damnation (Act I, line 5). Yet, the murder would bring him power over Scotland and he “shalt be kind” as told by the Weird Sisters(Act 1, line 50). Macbeth goes off of his ambition to murder King Duncan. The internal struggle of choosing mortality over motives brought forth an intense shift of loyalty to betrayal. The murder caused for Macbeth to turn on Scotland and only care for his own selfish motives. The betrayal causes for the play to become horrific and have a double meaning. Macbeth must put on a face to hide his murder to become the king. The double meaning is how Macbeth looks like a hero to all of Scotland, but only the people on the inside know of his horrific actions. He had to murder to to get the position of King, but the

Then ‘tis most like the sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth” (Act 2 Sc. 4 39-42). Ross declares the murder that took place as “thriftless ambition,” and against the natural order. Yet, the irony behind the situation is that “thriftless ambition” has led to Macbeth's rise in power. It is inappropriate to deem him “brave Macbeth” and more appropriately “cowardly Macbeth.” Macbeth’s thought process is Machiavellian in nature, as if the “ends justify the means” and his success is worth what he loses. Becoming the king is his ultimate goal, and now that he has succeeded, the only obstacle in his way of losing that ambition is himself. Gareth Lloyd Evan states in the Literary Companion Macbeth that “However, as long as Macbeth can at least give himself the illusion he has some control over his destiny he seems decisive”(Lloyd 166). Grief and regret are both emotions that Macbeth tries to hide from not just everyone else, but also himself. If he started to be too overwhelmed, his facade would quickly dissipate and reveal a flawed man. He forms an illusion of a perfect situation for himself, away from the vast possibilities in his imagination, swamped by thoughts of possible

Macbeth's terrible murder of the King in order to obtain the crown causes absolute chaos and disturbs the Natural Order, or balance of the universe, and so he is punished for this. By murdering the king, Macbeth causes Duncan's sons to flee Scotland, allowing Macbeth to obtain the throne. This disturbs the Natural Order, as the rightful heir isn't on the throne, and slowly Macbeth pays for his evil deeds through his descent into evil. Macbeth is soon punished for all his cruel and wicked deeds, and his punishment is death by Macduff. Afterwards, the Natural Order is re-established as Duncan's son Malcolm rightfully obtains the throne, but many lives have been lost along the way. For example, after Duncan's murder, his sons fear for their own lives, and flee to other countries. "Let's not consort with them… I'll to England" (2, 3, 131-133). "To Ireland, I. Our separate fortune | Shall keep us both the safer. Where we are, | There's daggers in men's smiles; the nea'er in blood, | The nearer bloody" (2, 3, 134-137). Shakespeare uses a metaphor here ("daggers in men's smiles") to show the fear and distrust felt by Duncan's sons- fear for their lives, distrusting all those around them. Their flight leaves the throne free for Macbeth, who is given the title without question. "The

He may even be compared to that of a tyrant. At one point, he is approached by three apparitions who give him a sample of his future. They encourage him to continue causing such chaos in Scotland by confusing him into thinking he has a lot more power than he does. Although, one of the apparitions, particularly the second one, truly seems to get into Macbeth’s head. The fate which it gives Macbeth is, “Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn /The power of man, for none of woman born /Shall harm Macbeth.” (4.1.90-92). This is saying how no one born of a woman shall harm Macbeth. In other words, Macbeth interprets it as no one at all can harm him. Having this knowledge, he begins to feel more power since he believes no one can hurt him. It also diminishes his sense of fear, believing that anything he does couldn’t impact his personal self. Macbeth then decides to go off on his own to create more tragedies, impacting everyone in Scotland. They now see how Macbeth is a terrible person, and even seek to get revenge. At one point, Malcolm talks to Macduff about the havoc Macbeth has created. He says to Macduff, “Be comforted. Let’s make us med'cines of our great revenge, To cure this deadly grief.” (4.3.252-254). Malcolm is saying that he would like to get revenge on Macbeth since he turned out to be such a horrible king. His actions created many hardships

He does things that he would never have thought of doing, such as killing Banquo and trying to kill Banquo’s son. And some other things that Macbeth is now doing are affecting all of Scotland, including Malcolm, King Duncan’s older son, and Macduff, a scottish noble that could replace Macbeth as king. When Malcolm is talking to Macduff he suggests that “I am not treacherous. But Macbeth is.” (4.3.21-22), they are talking about how corrupt Macbeth has become due to too much power. Then shortly after, Macbeth goes on a rampage and starts to kill scottish nobles and their family’s so that he can stay king and have his descendants become king after him. One of the family’s that he kills is Macduff’s. Then out of hatred and grief for his family Macduff meets Macbeth at Macbeth’s castle to kill him. Since Macbeth has gained this power as king, the effects of it make him do things that he wouldn’t normally do which leads to him having the feeling of self hatred, “With blood of thine already” (5.8.6) as he says to Macduff after he had killed his family. The effect of too much power leads Macbeth to do things that he wouldn’t have done and away from demonstrating what it means to be a

I,Malcolm, let Macbeth do anything to be king. While I watch him ruin his legacy.Macbeth proves his loyalty to Duncan by serving him. Macbeth states, " the service and the loyalty I owe in doing it pays itself(I.iv.25) To avoid being taken advantage of, Macbeth must demonstrate that he is not weak. He fulfills this by taking the cowardly way out and murdering Duncan King of Scotland. He acts out because he is jealous and feels as if he deserves to be king. At this point once Macbeth displays that he is no longer loyal to his once King of Scotland, who said " for brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name"(I.ii.95). A disloyal Macbeth cannot accept the promotion to thane of Cawdor, so he get greedy and does the unthinkable. Macbeth says, "Let not light see my black and deep desires: the eye wink at the hand yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done to see"(I.ii.50-53). These words reveal Macbeth's deep desire to be king, after King Duncan announces that his son Malcolm will be the one to take the throne after him.

In the beginning of the play when Macbeth first finds out that he's been promoted to Thane of Cawdor. After Macbeth has been told his prophecy he returns to camp and is then greeted in the morning by news of him becoming the new Thane of Cawdor. “The Thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me in borrowed robes”(1,3,108-109) this depicts how at one point Macbeth was loyal to the king, Duncan, but once he was given the new title he became thoughtful of his new power and soon realizes that he wants more of it. Another interesting example of this is when duncan names his oldest son, Malcolm, the Prince of Cumberland which is the next in line to the throne. “The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which i must fall down, or else o'erleap, for in my way it lies.”(1,5,48-50) This indicates that Macbeth has already came up with plans of becoming king and killing Duncan, the only thing in his way now is his son Malcolm. Now that Macbeth has a taste of more power he is fueled by greed and wants only one thing, to be king, he no longer has loyalty towards

Despite his fearless character in battle, Macbeth is concerned by the prophecies of the Witches, and his thoughts remain confused, both before, during, and after his murder of King Duncan. When Duncan announces that he intends the kingdom to pass to his son Malcolm, Macbeth appears frustrated. When he is about to commit the murder, he undergoes terrible pangs of conscience. Macbeth is at his most human and considerate when his masculinity is ridiculed and degraded by his wife. However, Macbeth has resolved himself into a far more stereotypical villain and asserts his manliness over that of his wife. His ambition now begins to spur him toward further horrible deeds, and he starts to disregard and even to challenge fate. Nevertheless, the newfound resolve causes Macbeth to move onward.

Have you ever heard of someone going mad with power? When you think about someone do you think about the characters Shakespeare's play "Macbeth". Power corruption plays a big part for the characters "Macbeth". Most characters In the play are almost instantly, and or automatically, corrupted by the power that they wanted. The characters that seemed to become the most corrupt was Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

Macbeth’s fate is to be king, but with free will, he decides to murder Duncan to get to the throne. Instead of letting fate decide when Duncan will ultimately die, Macbeth, with the help of his wife, decides to rush fate and murder him in order to be crowned sooner. Once Macbeth finds out that King Duncan has made Malcolm the Prince of Cumberland, he begins having murderous thoughts (Macbeth 1.5.48-53). After discussing the matter with his wife, Lady Macbeth, she finally convinces him to murder the king. This is of significance to the play because it shows the beginning of Macbeth’s conversion to evil with each murder and lie. In an article it states

As the play continues, we pick up that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s relationship changes himself and her. Their relationship signifies, trust, cruelness, and teamwork. Soon after, Macbeth learnt about the prophecies from the witches, they predicted that he will be the king but also predict that Malcom- the son of King Duncan will become the prince of Cumberland. Feeling uneasy about this, Macbeth writes a letter to his wife and lets her know and she urges Macbeth to kill Duncan to acquire the crown. But Macbeth is quite uneasy about this and isn’t as strong as Lady Macbeth believes because she said herself that if King Duncan did not resemble her father as much, she would do the job. Slowly, Macbeths caves in and gets persuaded into killing King Duncan. With the blood on his hands, Macbeth becomes a murderer and soon comes to lose his mind. He begins to change into something so wicked that he couldn't find his way back into the heroic warrior that he was. He started to become weary of his surroundings and dependent towards the

Furthermore, the excessive pride exhibited by Macbeth at the end of the play highlights the psychological annihilation caused by toxic masculinity; leading to his eventual death. He conforms to the traits viewed as traditionally male since he becomes violent and excessively prideful of his masculinity and strength, and, consequently, reaches his demise. The unwavering pride that he possesses is evident when he refuses to acknowledge Malcom’s right to the throne of Scotland and states, “I will not yield, / to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet” (5.8, 81). The use of the words “I will not yield” exemplify Macbeth’s need for dominance because subordination correlates with being weak. Also, the act of kneeling and kissing the ground

Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most famous yet haunting plays. One such skill Shakespeare possesses as a playwright is his effective use of equivocation to illustrate a sense of ambiguity within the plot and the characters. Equivocation is the use of ambiguous or confusing language to mislead or prevent revelation of the truth. By deceiving others, an equivocator avoids answering a question directly. In the tragedy of Macbeth, William Shakespeare fills his play with equivocation and double meanings.