Macbeth Character Analysis

As there is already a King in power, Lady Macbeth and her husband face a difficult decision. In order for Macbeth to be King, the reigning King Duncan would have to die. Lady Macbeth is a kind and gentle women but when she is faced with the temptation of a higher power she turns to darkness to help her commit this sin(quote about de womanizing her). Leading up to the murder of King Duncan, Lady Macbeth doesn't believe that Macbeth is strong enough and doubts his ability to be a man and take charge. (quote about milk of human kindness). Her doubt about her husband stays with her throughout the play and is what constantly drives a wedge between their relationship. What once was a marriage full of love, now is filled with manipulation 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.

Lady Macbeth accused him of cowardice and dangled bright prospects of his future before his eyes so that Macbeth would kill the king (Foster). Macbeth really killed the King because he thought it would make him a powerful man. If he wouldn’t have killed King Duncan, I would have made him feel less of a man. Lady Macbeth had a nervous break down knowing she wasn’t going to kill anyone. She states “He could not miss ‘ em .Had he not resembled my father as he kept, I had don’t” (2.2). Lady Macbeth is just making up excuses because she know that she can kill anybody. She wanted somebody to do her work for her that’s why Macbeth stepped up as a man and did what he had to do. Macbeth showed that he was willing to do anything that came in this way for the throne. Lady Macbeth showed that she is no the true villain because she started acting crazy over the murder of King Duncan and she killed herself from the gilt of what she had

Macbeth, the titular character and protagonist of the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, ultimately proves how the words of those around you can shape your actions. In the course of the five acts, Macbeth changes his views on power from letting chance guide him to being king to cold-heartedly killing Macduff’s family with the intention of hurting the enemy. Macbeth is first hesitant of the witches’ prophecies and he initially decides to let fate take him to the throne because he believes the words of the witches cannot be good nor true but he is urged by Lady Macbeth to take things into his own hands, even if it means staining them with blood, because of her sense of power and her exploitation of his manhood. After greeted with statements

In the play by Shakespeare [Macbeth] the main character, bearing the same name as the title, is an amazingly complex character. So he can be called many things, and was called many things. He was called the “Thane of Cawdor” as a title; but, many things can be interpreted and proven as traits of his character. When looking for ways to describe the main character, Macbeth, I would describe him as cowardly, ambitious, and bold.

Macbeth’s desire to become king and take the crown from King Duncan ends up hurting him more than helping him. Initially, Macbeth was against murdering King Duncan and didn't think he could do that to his very own king. Lady Macbeth believes that her husband will not go through with his plan however he does end up killing him. She states “Yet I do fear thy nature; It is too full of of the milk of human kindness. As he kills the King he starts to see things like the floating dagger and that seems to make him extremely

Lady Macbeth does every one of this in view of her ravenousness for force. She realizes that she can control Macbeth and Macbeth being the King would permit her to have control over the ruler and be Queen herself. This demonstrates without Lady Macbeth, Macbeth wouldn't have slaughtered Duncan and there wouldn't have been a disaster. Macbeth is additionally to fault for the deplorability of the play in light of the fact that without him being so aggressive and restricted located, the play would be more realistic. Macbeth was having attentiveness toward executing Duncan and in the play it even says “Continue no further around here yet his vaulting desire”, is a quote that shows signs of improvement of him. Macbeth is to be faulted for what happens after he executes Duncan, without him seeing the apparition of Banquo and yelling it out. Furthermore without him blowing up at Duncan's demise there would have been little suspicion of his association with the homicide, without Macbeth's desire and still, small voice the play wouldn't have taken the way it did. Without the three witches

Macbeth was very considerate in what life had given him, but then three witches told him he would be king if he killed three certain people. He became ambitious and followed the plan of the witches, which lead to destructing himself. “ He won’t catch a wink of sleep, either at night or during the day. He will live as a cursed man.” ( Macbeth pg.11). For example in this quote the witches tell him that if he does not do what they say then he will be restless, and damned. Another example is “ I have never seen a day that was so good and bad at the sametime”(Macbeth pg.13). Which this explains how Macbeth was astonished of the news that he could be king, and bad because he had to kill people to become king. Finally the witches say “ All hail, Macbeth the future king”(Macbeth pg.15) to puch Macbeth to the idea that he was already king to them. All he had to do was kill the three people to receive the title of becoming king. This is when Lady Macbeth influenced Macbeth during the play due to his ambition taking over.

A man can possess many things wealth, power, honor and in the 11th-century woman, contrary to the belief of the times women cannot be possessed for they are the determinants of fate and this shown through lady Macbeth being the catalyst for his transformation. Over the course of the play he becomes an entirely different person than he once was, he goes from a hero figure to a deceitful murderer that has a very narrow focus on becoming king and drives himself crazy with the prediction that he will become king. Macbeth betrays his own values, those close to him, and any moral compass that once existed within him. Throughout the play Macbeth does not stray from his ways in order to satisfy himself, he goes down the reckless path to become king in order to please his wife and this eventually leads to his demise. Machiavelli states “...fortune is a woman and if she is too submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her”(pg.81 The Prince). Due to the fact that Macbeth plays the passive role in their relationship and his own life when it comes to mobility he enables his wife to take over as a master of his fate. This occurs not only in the play Macbeth, it occurs in Madea, in Greek mythology through the story of Pandora's box and in the book of the city of ladies where it is proved that woman are drivers of fate through men, simultaneously they are able to manipulate fate on their own through virtuous actions such as invention or through divine intervention. The theme of the

In conclusion Lady Macbeth 's character gradually breaks down due to unyielding strength and unsteady control of her husband. Her determination is not a result of wrong decisions and actions but many other factors played an important role in this tragedy. Some like: regardless of supernatural forces, intimidating personality, and the cruel ambition to achieve kingship. Possibly as a result of these factors Lady Macbeth ends her own life and Macbeth almost causes his disproval too. Macbeth realizes that his wife 's death looks more like an escape from their worthless life. Maybe if Macbeth and his wife were happy with who they were, they would not let ambition, authority, power and supernatural destroy their chances at

Lady Macbeth has the most influence on her husband’s change as she pushes down the first domino to the downfall of his character. She starts by attacking his word “From this time such account thy love. “Thine own act and valor / as thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that / which thou esteem’st the ornament of life, / and live a coward in thine own esteem” (Macbeth 1.7.44-48). In this passage, she says he is afraid to do what he desires, and he is a coward because he does not do whatever he says he will do. While attacking his word, she attacks his manhood by calling him a coward “Letting ‘I dare not’ wait upon ‘I would, ‘/ like the poor cat i' th' adage?” (1.7.48-49). She compares him with the poor cat in the old story, which means that she is calling him a scaredy cat, as he no longer intends to kill Duncan. And again, when Macbeth tries to ask his wife what would happen if they fail , she interrupts him and indirectly says, if he stops being a coward, then they will not fail

In the play, ‘Macbeth’ the playwright, William Shakespeare depicts many examples of free will which cause Macbeth to suffer under the decisions that he made. Macbeth uses his free will to make multiple decisions to gain full control by becoming king of Scotland. Macbeth’s decisions that he makes in the play cause him to suffer in numerous ways. His decisions of listening to the witches’ prophecies, his wife Lady Macbeth and his will to kill many to fulfill the prophecies make Macbeth suffer physically and mentally. Macbeth suffers from the death of Banquo, the loss of loyalty from the people of Scotland and Malcolm becoming king. This causes Macbeth to suffer when he decides to give up as he has nothing left to go back to and fight MacDuff until death. Each and every decision he makes, causes him to suffer the consequences that lead him to his tragic ending.

Despite having acted as a “catalyst” and “influencing” Macbeth to murder Duncan, Lady Macbeth was only supporting Macbeth in his thoughts and acting as nothing more than a mentor through the scheme. This is shown when Lady Macbeth is presented with the opportunity to kill Duncan in which she hesitates and quickly decides in not doing it. “Had he not resembled my dad as he slept, I had done’t” (2.2.16-17) With a clear opportunity to murder King Duncan and claim the crown for Macbeth, Lady Macbeth goes against it proving she has moral values and innocence. More importantly, Lady Macbeth shows that she’s merciful towards others, while Macbeth is slowly beginning his transformation into becoming a killer. As the play progresses, Macbeth begins to kill more and more people, with each kill traumatizing Lady Macbeth even more.

Personality is a thing that all humans have that is really difficult to change. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, Macbeth was a victim of this as he could not change his personality for the good. Although in the text Macbeth was perceived as an evil person, he was actually an inherently good person who was unable to overcome the influences and this lead to his downfall. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, Macbeth is a good person who is influenced to make bad choices, demonstrating that his easily manipulated personality is the true cause of his downfall. This is supported by the fact that Macbeth was a noble and a thane before he made all the wrong choices, Macbeth was influenced by others to make wrong choices, and the ultimate fact that Macbeth has an easily manipulated personality; as proven in the text.

Willful as a person’s actions may appear, they are governed not from within, but from without; an instrument to the musician who plays the tune. When pressured by these forces, an individual can be induced to cross the delicate line between good and evil. In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the sinful actions of the title character can be attributed to several outside factors which alter his moral sensibilities, leading to fatal consequences. The stimulating presence of Lady Macbeth, the existence of a hierarchical society and the great chain of being, and the impact of supernatural prophecies all play a role in setting the right situation for him to commit treason and murder. Indeed, the choices Macbeth has made are directly influenced by external pressures that lead him onto the path of tyranny and cruelty in his aim to become king of Scotland.