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How Does Macbeth Change Throughout The Play

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I personally felt as if the reading between the class of Macbeth went by relatively fast although it may be due to the fact that it’s a play, but I didn’t feel left out or missing from any added information. Everything seemingly played out very effectively and tied together at the end. Both Macbeth and his beloved seemed to change the most significantly over the course of the play. Macbeth starts of as this noble, respectable soldier whom has completely devoted himself to his King, but the witches come in strong at the very beginning and, straight from the start, taint him with their prophecies, which only gets the ball rolling for Macbeth in his mostly downward spiraling fate guided heavily by guilt. One would presume that a wife would play

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