The Downfall Of Macbeth In William Shakespeare's Play

The Witches or Weird Sisters play a major role in the brilliant tragedy Macbeth by William Shakespeare. The role of the Weird Sisters represents that equivocal evil in the nature of things which helps to deceive the human will. They are not mere witches although they have some of the powers of witches. Even though they were produced by nature, they share with angels a freedom from limitation of space and time, a power to perceive the causes of things, and to see some distance into human minds (Kermode 1309). The Witches have malicious intentions and prophetic powers that entice Macbeth and captivate his mind. Although they have no power to compel Macbeth, the Witches appeal to Macbeth’s desires, eventually leading him to his tragic end.

Macbeth is crucially at fault for his own death, although blindly following the witches and giving Lady Macbeth so much power over him to manipulate and influence him are an essential irrefutable factors that aided in his death. Although ultimately it was Macbeth’s own blind and greedy ambition which both

Macbeth would not be the best first choice of literary character to use as an example of a hero. He is a hero in the beginning of the play and

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a tragedy in which the main characters are obsessed by the desire for power. Macbeth’s aspiration for power blinds him to the ethical implications of his dreadful acts. The more that Shakespeare’s Macbeth represses his murderous feelings, the more he is haunted by them. By analyzing his hallucinations it is possible to trace his deteriorating mental state and the trajectory of his ultimate fall. Throughout the play Macbeth is never satisfied with himself. He feels the need to keep committing crime in order to keep what he wants most: his kingship. The harder Macbeth tries to change his fate the more he tends to run into his fate. His ambition and struggle for power was Macbeth’s tragic flaw in the play.

Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires.” This shows that Macbeth is more determined to kill King Duncan after he hears that Malcolm is named the Prince of Cumberland. He is determined as Macbeth believes that he should be the King as the witches told him that he would be.

“Macbeth” a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, portrays, how the main character Macbeth, transforms from a war hero, to a murdering villain. Macbeth starts out as the thane of Glamis and steadily rises to become King of Scotland. The higher Macbeth rose on his road of power the more corrupt and evil he became. The character change of Macbeth ignites the whole theme of the play.

Macbeth is easily tempted into murder by his wife to fulfill his ambitions to the throne. Once he stabs Duncan there is no stopping him. Macbeth then proceeds to kill Banquo, Fleance, Lady Macduff, and her children. Lady Macbeth only manipulated him to kill the king, but the decisions to kill Macduff and Banquo were his own. Banquo was his good loyal friend, after he killed him we know that he was out of his mind. Each person he has killed

In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Lady Macbeth’s desire and ambition leads to her eventual downfall. When Lady Macbeth hears of Macbeth’s prophecy she dreams of the glory and high-standing that awaits being queen. She cannot withhold her ambitions and she is willing to manipulate fate to bring about Macbeth’s prophecy. She invokes evil spirits to be filled from head to toe with cruelty to do the evil actions necessary to make Macbeth king and to remove all remorse and pity for her action from her heart. She is initially able to be involved in the treacherous deeds that are needed to bring about the prophecy quickly, but as the play progresses the weight of the merciless deeds fill her with remorse. The remorse and pain she feels for her wicked

In William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the main character, Macbeth, is a brave and loyal subject to the King of Scotland, but as the play progresses, his character begins to change drastically. Evil and unnatural powers, as well as his own passion to become king, take over his better half and eventually lead to his downfall. The three main factors that intertwine with one another that contribute to Macbeth's tragic end are the prophecies told by the three witches, Lady Macbeth's influence, and finally, Macbeth's excessive passion and ambition which drove his desire to become king to the utmost extreme. The prophecy told by the three witches was what triggers the other factors that contribute to Macbeth s downfall. In the first act, the witches

It is human nature to be intrigued by all things mystical and dangerous. We fear the unknown but seek it nonetheless out of greed. Most of Shakespeare’s works hold an element of the supernatural and the play Macbeth is no exception. In this play we see a contemporary morality that warns of the dangers of trafficking with instruments of darkness; the witches in the play prophesize of Macbeths future as king, and Macbeth blinded by his hunger for power fails to recognize that the witches prophecies are luring him to evil . In act 1 scène 3 we see the effect that the excitement of the prophecies has had on his imagination as he begins to contemplate murdering the king. As Macbeth gets closer to

The three apparitions are another example of the witches influence on MacBeth. In act four scene one, MacBeth sees the 3 apparitions conjured by the witches. These lead him into a false sense of security, saying he will rule Scotland until Birnam forest marches to Dunsinane, and that no man born of a woman can harm him. MacBeth is also told to be wary of Macduff. MacBeth interprets the ghost's tidings his own way: feeling invincible and murdering Macduff's family as a punishment for his supposed treachery.

Macbeth fears the Witches put a ‘fruitless crown [on his head] and put a barren sceptre in [his] gripe’ (3.1.62-63); he fears that he murdered the Duncan, ‘put rancours in the vessel of [his peace]’ (3.1.68) and gave his soul to the devil just for Banquo’s children. Out of his need for security, Macbeth decides to kill Banquo and Fleance to ensure the prophecy will not come true. The same can be applied to the planned murder of Macduff. Even though ‘none of woman born shall harm Macbeth’ (4.1.79-80), Macbeth decides to act on the earlier apparition of ‘beware Macduff’ (4.1.70) and kill Macduff because he is deemed a threat. Additionally, after the murder of Duncan, Lady Macbeth is no longer Macbeth’s ‘dearest partner of greatness’ (1.5.10) as she was before. Macbeth does not even tell her about his plan to murder Banquo; he keeps everything to himself, perhaps because he is in a world created by insecurities. The Witches’ words have a larger influence on Macbeth during the later part of the play only because they are manipulated by Macbeth to bear more meaning to him. Macbeth ‘demand[ed]’ the apparitions. The Witches did not use their powers to force Macbeth to murder, they merely show him ‘what [he] asked [of them]’ (4.1.60). Macbeth is consciously taking the three apparitions and using them to fit his plans of ridding his kingdom of threats to the crown. The Witches are not influencing Macbeth when decided to ‘give th’edge o’th’sword to

Star, hide your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires. (Act 1, Scene, IV, lines 50-51). This evocative quote from Macbeth portrays the tragic of Macbeth as his ambition is dark and the depth unleashes inner conflict. In the world of Shakespearean’s play Macbeth is a tragedy because the character was unable to fulfil his ambition.

A tragic hero is a great or virtuous character in a dramatic tragedy who is destined for downfall, suffering, or defeat. Macbeth was everything in the description, from the downfall, his supernatural evil ways, and his tragic flaw, he still remained a very honorable man. Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespeare that tells a story about a husband and wife planning to kill King Duncan with the help of three evil witches so Macbeth can be crowned king. In due of time, after Macbeth was crowned king, he becomes more evil and spiteful, killing anyone who he think would try and steal his royalty away from him. His evil ways finally caught up with him causing him to lose his life in a battle with Macduff making Malcolm, Duncan’s eldest son

Many of people have heard the tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare. The story revolves on a sequence of misfortunate events that take place when Macbeth makes immoral decisions to be king. In the play, Shakespeare shows how power can cause corruption in a human’s brain. Macbeth himself was not a very confident person, though he had a kind soul to begin with, he was easily influenced and gullible. Through the prophecies of the evil beings, an insignificant seed was planted in Macbeth. That spark of wealth and fortune caused the tyrant within him to awake. Which eventually lead to his fatal death. His ambition lead him to murder, go insane and become very superstitious.