Many people believe the past will not catch up to them in the future, but this will prove just how quickly it does. The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare represents a classic tragedy that dramatizes the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power. In The Tragedy of Macbeth, a brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia. Macbeth attempts to control the future and hide the past by listening to other people, demanding for answers that will help …show more content…
“It will have blood, they say. Blood will have blood: Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak; Augurs and understood relations by maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth The secret’st man of blood”(3.iv.125-129). This quote suggests that Macbeth starts to realize he will have to suffer for his murders. He recognizes that just as he murdered people to gain power, others on a quest for power may murder him in order to gain what he has. This reveals Macbeth hopes for the images of his murder victims to go away and everything to return to how it was before. Macbeth tries to move on from what he has done and continue forward, but unfortunately that does not happen for him. “But to be safe thus our fears of Banquo stick deep; and in his royalty of nature reigns that which would be fear’d. This must he dare and to that dauntless temper of his mind.”(3.i.52-55). This states Macbeth began to fear Banquo and tries to not think of what he may know about the murder of Duncan. Macbeth shows his strong fear of Banquo’s prophecy by dwelling on it constantly. He is also afraid that Banquo might plot against him to seize the throne for his own