Examples Of Greed In Macbeth

There is a reason as to why the seven deadly sins include pride and greed. Pride and greed are the never failing downfall to mankind causing us to forget ourselves and humanity. We as humans will always want more especially at little to no cost, we allow our prideful thoughts to take full effect never backing down and let greed make us strive or even kill for that power. This is the case of Shakespeare’s play Macbeth where we see the downfall our “hero” Macbeth over his greed for more power, ultimately ending in his demise. Even so, Macbeth was not entirely the monster that he portrayed to be Macbeth, was suppose to be a man of much respect but slowly as the play progressed we saw into his darkened heart where the selfish ideologies were

The do not benefit themselves in anyway by helping Macbeth and Banquo and instead look to cause trouble for the two men. They often fiddle with the daily lives of humans especially those who have wronged them. The witches describe an encounter with a rude lady and how their revenge it to punish the husband, “Sleep shall neither night nor day, Hang upon his penthouse lid. He shall live a man forbid.” (1, 3, 19-21) The witches take the opportunity to harm the husband when he was not involved in what went on with the wife. They tell Macbeth all the glorious to come while still knowing that it will consume him and cause much pain to others around him. The witches chant “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” (1,1, 12) after discussing their meet will Macbeth, this sets up the whole play to what it’s going to be like. The play is set up to be in the context of good is bad and bad is good meaning that Macbeth is not good but he is also not bad. Had the witches not told the “prophecies” to Macbeth himself, his wife, his friends and his king would not be dead. Although a possible deep desire of Macbeth’s to become king it’s most likely that he would have never acted on it even with Lady Macbeth’s advice. Macbeth is not all evil but rather the constant toying of the witches causes him to develop a paranoia and distrust, which he acts

Lady Macbeth is a heartless hellion that will not let anything stand in the way of her husband getting the title of king even at the cost of many lives. I feel like without Lady Macbeth present, Macbeth would have been a happy man. The women is constantly manipulating her husband for what can be both admirable and displaceable. She wanted him to live to his fullest potential as king but she will disregard anyone else if they stand in the way. Lady Macbeth knows that Macbeth wont be able to kill King Duncan because she is in “fear [of] thy nature; It is too full o’ th’ milk oh human kindness” (1, 5, 15-16) meaning that she fears that Macbeth’s nature is too kind he wont kill the king. The catalyst to Duncan’s murder is when Lady Macbeth puts Macbeth’s masculinity on blast and he becoming so angry agrees to the brutal act. Lady Macbeth also questions Macbeth’s heroism “Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thing own esteem, Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would,” (1, 7, 42-44) translating basically too are you (Macbeth always going to be a coward saying I want, I want or are you going to actually do something. At the end of things it seems that Macbeth’s bruised ego helps begin their rise and fall to