The Start of Evil: Lady Macbeth by William Shakespeare

And thence it is,/That I to your assistance do make love,/Masking the business from the common eye/For sundry weighty reasons”(3.1.121-129). This shows that Macbeth will kill his partner to stay king since Banquo thinks Macbeth is the murder of King Duncan. After he hears the answers from the witches, he decides to kill all of Macduff’s family because Macbeth thinks killing Macduff’s family would stand in line of his inheritance:”The castle of Macduff I will surprise,/Seize upon Fife, give to th' edge o' th' sword/His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls/That trace him in his line. No boasting like a fool./This deed I’ll do before this purpose cool./But no more sights!—Where are these gentlemen?/Come, bring me where they are”(4.1.157.163). Macbeth will orders the murders to kill anyone that can overtake his

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Macbeth is a play about a Scottish general (Macbeth) who receives a prophacy from three witches that states that one day, he wil become the king of Scotland. This makes Macbeth power hungry so he decides to murder the current king of Scotland, Duncan. As people grow more and more suspicious of who killed Duncan, Macbeth is forced to commit more murders in order to protect himself from being exposed. This leads to him becoming filled with paranoia and guilt, which ultimately is his major downfall. Shakespeare wrote this play in 1606 to make people realize that excessive ambition can have terrible consequences. Both the play and the movie incorporate murders into telling the story of Macbeth, but they do so in different ways.

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

In his ultimate quest for power, his bloodlust caused him to betray an old friend and brutally murder his family becoming a fiend in the process. To further support this, Macbeth preached about how he was going to murder to his friend and his family (Act four Scene one) “ Now I cannot kill him as I planned. From now on, when I decide to do something, I’ll do it immediately. I’m going to go to Macduff’s castle now and kill his wife and children before I change my mind.” Now with that being said, he demonstrates that he will do anything to ensure his position and now since he is king, he would do whatever it takes to maintain it. He believes that everyone he knows would be a threat, as well as those who opposed him, so he thoughtfully created a plan to kill them. His plan failed with Macbeth, but even with that happening, he still went through with the plan. Having regretting not killing Macduff, he went after his family and murdered them in cold blood to send a message and to make his old friend miserable. With this ferocious and treacherous act, he proves once and for all, that he does not care anymore about other’s lives. Now to further explore this, In his quest for power, Macbeth’s greed blinded him, causing him to murder his best friend and his son to safeguard his future. He arrogantly revealed that he will butcher

"Macbeth" is a tragic play that was written by William Shakespeare in the early 1600’s. It revolved around the character Macbeth and his urge to become king of Scotland. Macbeth had to do anything possible to become the king including murder, lying, and deception. However, Macbeth committed these evil deeds due to some influential people in his life. Between Macbeth’s wife persuading him to do anything to become king and the witches prophesying over him causes Macbeth to try and bury the past and control the future.

Lady Macbeth had a very powerful hold over Macbeth. Just by questioning his valor she could shift Macbeth’s whole thought process and second-guessing of the murder of Duncan (Booth, 24), and he allows it because he cannot bear to disappoint her. His love for her and need for her approval is what ultimately leads him to commit each and every one of his crimes. She is the center of his world and if she does not see a problem in the murders than why should he. This is naïve ignorance caused by a blindness that is induced by love, and that is both heart breaking and tragic.

Throughout the play we see the character of Macbeth change, not only from the way he thinks and speaks, but from his actions as well. Killing Banquo and having Lady Macduff and her children murdered show the insecurity that is present in Macbeth’s character.  After the murder of Duncan, Macbeth becomes paranoid.  This paranoia leads to his killing the guards to help secure the place that he has found for himself.  Macbeth is also very superstitious, which becomes evident when he allows the witches’ prophecy to convince him that Banquo’s offspring would become Kings.

In Shakespeare play, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth’s character progresses in an interesting manner. Lady Macbeth is made to act as an incentive to Macbeth's immoral actions. Even though Macbeth is generally the person to have a final say before killing someone, Lady Macbeth plays the role of his “sidekick”. She mocks her husband if he worries over a sinful deed (which usually she instructs him to do), saying he would be less of a man if he does not follow through with their plan (I. vii. 56-57). She gives Macbeth a short lecture in deceptiveness when they are planning to kill King Duncan (I. vi. 73-78). She also prepared the daggers for Macbeth to kill Duncan in advance (II. ii. 15-16). Although her husband was still having doubts, she was always ready to go in for the kill. She did not think twice about it or feel any remorse. This shows that Lady Macbeth evolved into looking like a humble and quieter person on the exterior, but being an insane woman and criminal due to the events that have affected her.

Shakespeare is one of the most influential and famous playwrights of modern times. A major reason his work is loved by so many is because of his insightfulness into the human mind, and one of Shakespeare’s greatest works demonstrating this is Macbeth. This famous play is about nobleman and military man Macbeth and how his tragic choices lead to his inevitable demise. The first and most trying choice that Macbeth has to make is whether or not to kill Duncan, the king of Scotland. Macbeth has to make this decision while being pulled in different directions by two conflicting forces. The force pulling him away from murder is his loyalty and humanity towards Duncan. The other force pulling him towards murder is his loyalty towards Lady Macbeth

Shakespeare’s Macbeth has the twists and turns of crime written left and right. Macbeth is fueled by his ambition for the crown while abiding with Lady Macbeth’s lust for power. In Lady Macbeth’s mind the only road to the crown is to kill Duncan and spurred on by her manipulation Macbeth agrees. While trying to secure the throne with his name Macbeth’s body count rises along with his overwhelming guilt.

'As a result of Macbeth's unpredictable actions and thoughts the audience's perception of Macbeth changes a great deal throughout theses scenes. Shakespeare gives us a clear insight into how the witches' prophecies have consumed Macbeth, but also how ambition and power, two major themes of the play, affect human nature and corrupt a once loyal, highly respected and trusted nobleman. In the earlier scenes Shakespeare allows Macbeth to debate whether he should murder King Duncan thereby showing the audience that he still has a conscience. Macbeth understands that as Duncan's "kinsman" and "subject" he has no moral basis for regicide.

Macbeth is a dramatic play written by playwright William Shakespeare. The play follows the fall of the tragic hero Macbeth and his demise from a once brave and respected man to a cowardly killer and tyrant. Throughout the play, Duncan’s murder plunges the Macbeths and Scotland into turmoil and Darkness through psychological pain, war and unloyalty as well as personality changes. Once Duncan’s murder had been carried out, Lady Macbeth begins to suffer from guilt as she took part in Duncan’s murder. This results in Lady Macbeth suffering from psychological pain.

Macbeth is a play that shows the effects of political ambition on those who seek power for their own sake. Before becoming a murderer Macbeth was a brave Scottish General he was consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife to do anything in his power to become king, they describe him as “ war hero become evil murderer”. It wasn;t only from his ambition but he was influenced by the witches and Lady Macbeth. Macbeth murdered Kind Duncan to take the Scottish throne for himself and even though he is wracked with guilt and paranoia, he goes on to kill many more people. Since he was forced to commit more murders to protect himself he became a tryannical Killer.

Not only is Macbeth by far the shortest of William Shakespeare’s great tragedies, but it is also anomalous in some structural respects. Like Othello (1604) and only a very few other Shakespearean plays, Macbeth is without the complications of a subplot. (Bradley, 1905) Consequently, the action moves forward in a swift and inexorable rush. More significantly, the climax the murder of Duncan takes place very early in the play. As a result, attention is focused on the various consequences of the crime rather than on the ambiguities or moral dilemmas that had