Carpe diem. Seize the day. People all around the world live by this phrase, seeing the importance of opportunity to create a meaningful life. People achieve this in life, by believing they can, using outward influence, and maintaining this goal after achieving it. In The Tragedy of Macbeth, William shakespeare develops the idea of the importance of opportunity an individual seeks to create a meaningful life, through belief and outward influences, seizing opportunities, and maintaining the destiny they created through their actions. Macbeth was first visited by the weird sisters, being an outward influence, and planted the idea of being king in his mind. Even though some scholars may disagree, they were crucial in Macbeth's turn to violence, and forcibly taking what he believed that was rightfully his. Another outward influence of macbeth's rise to power would be his own wife. By constantly belittling him, and manipulating his thoughts of his manhood, she helps throw him over the edge to take the crown. Along with these two crucial influences, …show more content…
By killing Duncan, he not only pleases his wife, he pleases his power hungry mind, but by committing an unloyal act towards the king, he ignores his duties as a soldier, and allows the witches to manipulate him further into madness. In turn, by doing this, he is made to believe is crown will be taken from him, and that his kingship shall be short lived. By achieving his life goal he loses all sense of feeling and emotion, and becomes numb towards his subjects, his wife, and even his own needs such as sleep, due to the guilt carried on his shoulders and in his mind. These factors cause Macbeth to lash out violently towards those he feels will try and take him down, and rids him of the normal grieving actions, hardening him towards the