Macbeth Both Fair And Foul

True to the witches’ remarks, Macbeth was both fair and foul. He was a man that constantly battled with conflicting feelings of ambition, eminent self-doubt and exceptional amounts of guilt after submitting to his foul side. William Shakespeare’s shortest surviving tragedy, clearly illustrates the detrimental affects that yielding to feelings of ambition can have on an individual’s psyche. Macbeth had a deep yearning to gain control of the throne of Scotland since the weird sisters said it would end up like so. He allowed his desire to overtake the voice of his own conscience. As a consequence of this, he was enticed to commit great acts of injustice. Throughout the play Macbeth attempted to subdue his guilt and self-doubt however, his weak

Nevertheless, the weird sisters ignited a fire inside of him that couldn’t be extinguished by all of the guilt or scepticism in the world. In spite of the fact that Macbeth was fully aware that he possessed and acted upon two different qualities – fairness and foulness, all of his foulness and wrong doings were incapable of ridding him of his morale. Unlike his abetter Lady Macbeth, Macbeth knew the entire time that what he was doing was morally wrong however, he chose personal gain over morality. Despite all of the guilt and unrest he suffered, Macbeth never started to feel contempt towards himself. At the end of the play Macduff acted on his feelings of indignation towards Macbeth to avenge the atrocious acts engineered upon his family. In this final battle Macbeth did not surrender to Malcolm or Macduff like someone lacking self-respect would. “I will not yield, To kiss the ground before young Macom’s feet…” – Macbeth (V. VIII. 32-33). Instead he fought to his death while at the same time becoming increasingly aware of the extent that his criminality and fiends played in getting him to that point. “Yet I will try the last. Before my body I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff, And damn’d be him that first cries, “Holt, enough!”” – Macbeth (V. VIII. 37-39). The fact that Macbeth never once relented is all that is needed to gauge his level of