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Guilt In Macbeth

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In the play MacBeth by William Shakespeare, the play express what every character's think of themselves and perceives what they think on others. Through the play, Macbeth is told by three weird sisters that he will be king, but to become king, Macbeth has to kill people in order to reach his potential as king, and to kill anyone in his path who thinks Macbeth has done wrong. He is joined along with Lady Macbeth who comes out with certain ideas to kill others, but both of them later experience a demise from post traumatic stress disorder and guilt leading them both to their death. People presume others in what they have might done, Macduff believes that Macbeth has killed Banquo and maybe even the king, but due to the ways Macbeth has treated …show more content…

After meeting with the witches, his idea becoming to be king is getting to him and over reacts with ways to overthrow the king, instead of waiting patiently. With the help of his wife, the coy a plan to kill Duncan and to salvage Macbeth as king after Lady Macbeth called him a coward, so Macbeth thought he needed to prove his bravery to her that he can do this. After that, Macbeth felt guilty but later accepted the reality of proving himself rather superior and this is the start of where it gets clustered in his mind. Macbeth in this scene shows that he can be brave and confident by killing someone so close and powerful to him and later show his superiority of killing a king just to reach his own status. He proves to his wife of her perception of being rather weak and a coward of really being a confident brave man. He thinks that he is truly a man in where killing someone with a high status is manly and brave but the whole idea of it, truly seems vain. Throughout the near end, Macbeth fights with Malcolm and Macduff to defend his title as king. While he believes that he is superior just because he is a king gets to him severely. He kills the Young Siward as he wasn’t from the female anatomy as he was from a c-section. As he falls into his demise, he tries to kill off Macduff who had confronted him and once again, defends his superiority, his title as king, and himself. Macbeth hear takes the notch a bit too far, as everything starts to rush to his mind, possibly from his PTSD or his psychotic mind taking over, he perceives almost himself as a God-like figure and believes that everyone comes after him or below him. Just because he is King, he takes everyone as a possible threat in the situation of the fight, whereas people of the opposing side see him as an evil man, but Macbeth doesn’t think that, he just thinks of himself as a

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