Influence Of Fear In Macbeth By William Shakespeare

Fear can be a significant influence on anyone’s actions, and those actions can have impacts on people’s lives. Fear can influence people to act in both good and bad ways. Fear can take control of people causing poor decisions. Macbeth makes a lot of decisions leading up to his death that affect him. Fear influences Macbeth in many ways and this causes him to make decisions and carry out actions that have negative impacts. Macbeth’s fear causes him to make decisions. In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, fear is at the root of Macbeth’s crimes and poor choices it is the fear of what Macbeth can’t control that makes him lose control of his fate. Macbeth fears losing his manhood when he is questioned by Lady Macbeth. She uses this fear

Unfortunately for Macbeth, the plan does not go as he hopes. Immediately following the murder, Macbeth hears a voice ”There’s one did laugh in’s sleep, and one cried ‘Murder!’” (2. 2. 25-26). This causes Macbeth to panic and fear that the guards saw him commit the murder. This fear causes him to overthink the situation and he gets paranoid. Macbeth acts out on this fear without seeing the consequences and kills the guards. When Macbeth thinks this has solved the problem, a new fear comes up. Macbeth begins to be obsessed with Banquo’s prophecy. He fears that if Banquo will become the father and grandfather of many kings to come, that means that Banquo is a threat to him (even though they had been friends). Macbeth decides he needs to take action to keep his crown, “Given to the common enemy of man/ to make them kings, the seeds of Banquo kings/ Rather than so, come Fate into the list” (3. 1. 70-72). After seeing that all of his prophecies come true Macbeth thinks about Banquo and fears losing his crown. Macbeth hires murderers to go and kill Banquo and Fleance so that he remains king. Macbeth’s crimes of murdering the guards and hiring murderers to kill Banquo are directly related to his