Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. Personal responsibility is this idea that human beings chose or cause their own actions. Along the way, personal integrity can stand in the way of one’s professional responsibility. Those who allow morals to be a priority can become corrupt when attempting to focus on themselves rather than what their rightful duties are in life. One should not allow personal Integrity to impede on professional responsibility. Being a kinsman to a king requires true loyalty and a dedication to protect. In the play Macbeth, written by Shakespeare, the right and the wrong are tested by Macbeth’s actions. Macbeth’s lust and hunger for power leads him to commit a horrendous act of violence. He allows his mind to take over and damage …show more content…
He prioritizes his values before his loyalty to the king. In scene I, act vii, Macbeth hinders on why he shouldn’t murder King Duncan. His reasons are: “First, as i am his kinsman and his subject,/ Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,/ Who should against his murderer shut the door,/ Not bear the knife myself” (I.vii.13-16). Macbeth believes he should be protecting the king instead of wishing he was dead in order to take the throne from beneath him. He struggles with the choice and is arguing with himself. Macbeth is seen to have a morsel of integrity in scene I. He’s aware he shouldn’t be killing the king due to their relationship. However, Macbeth’s integrity fastly deteriorates due to him being weak and easily influenced by Lady Macbeth, his wife. Macbeth not only murders Duncan, but also Banquo. Whose son was to be the aer to the throne. Macbeth begins to see Banquo’s ghost at a feast and says, “Avaunt, and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee./ Thy bones are marrowless; thy blood is cold;/ Thou hast no speculation in those eyes/ Which thou dost glare with” (III.iv.98-101). Macbeth manages to convince the men he hires that Banquo needs to