Macbeth is a play that is written by William Shakespeare in 1606 and the main goal is to make the audience members or readers think that excessive ambition will have horrible consequences in the end. Over the course of the book Macbeth receives prophecies from multiple people, his wife tries to make him something that he is not, by getting him to kill anyone that she wants him to. Throughout the book the main character Macbeth drastically changes from being brave to being cowardly. He also changes from being loving to being greedy, and last he changes from being very trustworthy to being very untrustworthy. As a thane of Scotland, Macbeth loves and serves King Duncan even if it means his own death. The king and his army recognize Macbeth’s …show more content…
Macbeth shows that he is loving when he explains that he doesn’t want to kill duncan and he doesn’t want everything to result to violence. The following quote shows how Macbeth is loving: “Bloody instructions, which being taught, return / To plague th’ inventor: this even-handed justice / Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice / To our own lips. He’s here in double trust: / First, as i am his kinsman and his subject, / Strong both against the deed; as his host.” (1.7.9-14). This quote shows that Macbeth is loving because he doesn’t want anything to result to violence because the young people will look up to the older people and do the same thing cause they think it’s right. During the book, Macbeth turns greedy because the only thing keeping him motivated is ambition. The following quote that is in Act 1, Scene 7 shows how macbeth has turned greedy: “Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself / And falls on th’ other.” (1.7. 27-28). This quote shows that Macbeth has turned greedy because the only that is motivating Macbeth is his ambition, that makes people rush ahead of themselves toward disaster. The quotes above explain how Macbeth has changed from being loving to being greedy throughout the book …show more content…
Macbeth shows that he is trustworthy when he takes the opportunity to serve duncan and by doing everything he can to protect him. The following quote that is in Act 1, Scene 4 shows how Macbeth is trustworthy: “The service and the loyalty I owe / In doing it pays itself. Your highness’ part / Is to receive our duties, and out duties / Are to your throne and state children and servants / Which do but what they should, by doing everything / Safe toward you love and honor.” (1.4.23-28). This quote shows that Macbeth is trustworthy because he will give the service and loyalty that he owes and he’ll do anything to protect people. Throughout the book Macbeth changed from being trustworthy to being untrustworthy because he’s starting to grow tired of living and he’d like to see the world plunge into chaos. The following quote from Act 5, Scene 5 shows how macbeth has turned untrustworthy: “There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here. / I ‘gin to be aweary of the sun, / And wish th’ estate o’ th’ world were now undone.-- / Ring the alarum-bell!--Blow, wind! Come, wrack! / At least we’ll die with harness on our back.” (5.5.47-51). This quote shows that Macbeth is untrustworthy because he starting to get tired of living and he hopes to see the world turn to chaos and everyone will at least die with their armor on. The quotes above show how Macbeth has changed from being trustworthy to
In the beginning of the play, Macbeth was seen as a loyal and brave subject of the king Duncan. A good quote that shows how Macbeth
In “Macbeth,” by Shakespeare, King Duncan of Scotland is a generous man, but has a horrible weakness that affects others. His weakness constantly puts his kingdom and his life in danger. His weakness happens to be that he gains the trusts of others so easily, and is too kind to those he barely knows. The Thane of Cawdor, who was appointed by the King, was disloyal and began a bloody battle. This angered the King, and the Thane of Cawdor was later executed.
“That every minute of his being thrustsAgainst my nearest of life; and though I could With barefaced power sweep him from my sight And bid my will avouch it. Yet I must not,For certain friends, that are both his and mine,Whose loves I may not drop, but wail his fall,Who I myself struck down”(Shakespeare 3.1 115). The quote is Macbeth talking to murderers telling them to murder Banquo and his son so he can stay king. Macbeth killed Banquo so he can have no more kids and tried to kill Banquo's son so he can't be king either. Macbeth felt greed when he killed Banquo and duncan.
Macbeth by Shakespeare. Macbeth is a dark story that shows the destructive power of greed and the dangerous of allowing power to be in the hands of the wrong person. Throughout this story we witness the rise of main character Macbeth and we watch as his ambition causes him to become a person who's willing to harm even those closest to him, in order to get what he wants so he can quickly rise to the top.
His lauding of Macbeth contrasted with expressed inconvenience at Lady Macbeth’s hospitality later that same act put Macbeth on a pedestal of his own (I.vii.11). Macbeth’s relationship with the king surpasses kinsmen to a level of absolute trust when Duncan shares with them that “Sons, kinsmen, thanes, / And [those] whose places are the nearest” must uphold Malcolm as the heir of Scotland (I.iv.36-37). Interwoven in the affairs of the kingdom, Macbeth stands well above common plebs. Additionally, Macbeth’s kind nature automatically dismisses thoughts of foul play for the crown.
Macbeth come across the three witches, there they state, “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor” (Act 1, Scene 3). In reply to the three witches, Macbeth demanded “stay you imperfect speakers! Tell me more”. With just these few statements announced, Macbeth’s thirst for power and glory arises and is clearly seen.
Macbeth was screwed from the beginning. Macbeth is a play in which a war hero is introduced to a prophecy that ultimately leads to his own demise due to the impact of his greed. Shakespeare’s Macbeth teaches us that human flaws such as greed can easily lead even the most noble and honorable of people down a dark path. This is shown through the change that Macbeth went through after hearing his prophecy and becoming consumed by greed.
Two men search to find what they want, but end in failure. In The Tragedy of Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Macbeth, an excellent general, earns many titles throughout the play such as the “Thane of Glamis”, the “Thane of Cawdor”, and eventually, the King of Scotland. Macbeth is a general under King Duncan when the play opens as Macbeth successfully completes a mission under the King, which, in turn, earns him the “Thane of Cawdor.” After celebration over this, three witches visit Macbeth. These superstitious beings hint to Macbeth that he is the true King of Scotland, and the throne is his.
King Duncan is a relatively minor character in the play Macbeth written by William Shakespeare. He was the king of Scotland, the father of Malcolm and Donalbain, and the victim of his close friend Macbeth. He was known to be too kind, credulous and weak which lead to his early death in the play. King Duncan is a benevolent character: “You are welcome here. By making you thane of Cawdor, I have planted the seeds of a great career for you, and I will make sure they grow.
The statement by the witches in Act I, Scene I, “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” (1,1,12) continues to echo throughout the story and accurately describes the theme of the play. This paradox meaning “nothing is what it seems” is the backbone of the many changes and switches which occur between characters throughout the story. Later on in the first act, Macbeth himself has a very similar quote to the witches, regardless of the fact they are yet to meet. In Act I, Scene III, Macbeth says, “So fair and foul a day, I have not seen”. (1,3,40)
In the play Macbeth, Macbeth’s fate is what drives him to his decisions for both power and greed. This is portrayed when Macbeth when he kills Banquo and his son because his greed sees them as a threat to his throne, killing the king for power above all mortals, and his fate ultimately leading to his death and freeing time. Macbeth has done countless sins in order to keep his rightful position as king, though his greed for power has led to him killing his best friend Banquo because the witches have predicted that Banquo’s descendants will be king. “Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.”
The intentions of those who have gained trust can be unclear. Some people gain trust in hopes of doing something bad undetected. In Macbeth, King Duncan goes to dinner in the Macbeth household and claims Lady Macbeth as a “Fair and noble hostess” (1.6.30). This is ironic because Lady Macbeth has a large part in King Duncan’s death.
Macbeth and The Crucible: The Significant Effect of Witchcraft Witchcraft, which is an outdated practice from pre-Christianity and an indigenous tradition of the British Isles. It is a personal spiritual path practiced by different set of individuals in the quest to see the world for its true sacredness, within one's soul or in the presence of another's. An equally significant aspect of these two plays is their similarity and their captivating literature. In William Shakespeare's Macbeth, written in 1606, and Arthur Miller's The Crucible, written in 1952, the subject of witchcraft is highly emphasized, and it serves a pivotal theme in the main plot lines of both plays. In the following,
King Duncan saw Macbeth as a loyal and noble kinsman. These are the first words that the King says when he sees Macbeth, “My worthiest kinsman!” (Act 1 Scene 4). The two interact as close friends Macbeth thinks very highly of King Duncan and states, “The opportunity to serve you is its own reward,” (Act 1 Scene 4). After the King offers to repay him for winning the battle.
The reason the theme is important to understanding the narrative of the book is Macbeth demonstrates several situations where evil turns good and same in reverse. The theme Fair is Foul, Foul is Fair shows itself in the very beginning with Macbeth and Banquo encountering the witches and progresses. After Banquo was murdered the earth was under destruction, disastrous even. This is caused by the unnatural death of Banquo: “Our chimneys were blown down, and, as they say, Lamentings heard i’th’air, strange screams of death And prophesying with accents terrible Of dire combustion and confus’d events, New hatch’d to th’woeful time. The obscure bird Clamour’d the livelong night.