What makes finding solutions to wicked problems so difficult? In the play Macbeth, by William Shakesphere, the author writes about dishonesty, misplaced loyalty, and cunning ideas. It all starts when the king of Scotland, Duncan, dies. This is at the hands of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth wanting to become the next ruler of Scotland. Then Macbeth becomes the new king, and everyone trusts the nobleman. However he soon cracks under the pressure of the crown and makes everything not what it seems. In the cunning drama, Macbeth, Shakespeare illuminates the idea that desire and pressure left unchecked will lead to unnatural troubles and wicked endings. In the beginning of the play Macbeth is known as valiant, respectable, and truthful, but goes against his moral compass which further changes him. During act one Macbeth discovers that if king Duncan dies he will become king and is thinking about killing him when he says, “He's here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, strong both …show more content…
Macbeth's once loyal soldiers now have lost respect and support when Angus, a thane, declaries, “Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love. Now does he feel his title hang loose about him, like a giant robe” (V, II, 22-25). This develops the idea that people who move with Macbeth do it out of duty and nothing more like respect, loyalty, or love. When Macbeth is finally beheaded by Macduff in a gruesome fight, Malcom states, “That fled the snares of watchful tyranny. Producing forth the cruel ministers of this dead butcher and his fiend- like queen.” (V, viii, 80-82). At this point in the play Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have both died and everyone is overjoyed that they are both dead, and even calling Macbeth a butcher instead of a murder just further proves their hostility and distaste for him. Macbeth's wicked ending has finally come due to his