Shakespeare’s Macbeth explores the ideas of the consequences of immoral actions and their impact on people’s minds by presenting the shift of the tragic hero ‘Macbeth’ from a loyal and brave hero who wins battles for the king to an evil tyrant who is dominated by his ambition and suffers from guilt. The themes of appearances versus reality, manipulation, and ambition are the main themes of Macbeth used by Shakespeare to demonstrate his ideas. Throughout the play, the concept of ambition in the story of ‘Macbeth’ has been described as the flaw of the tragic hero ‘Macbeth’. At the beginning of the play, Macbeth is loyal, brave and described as a stereotypical hero, but as the plot develops we see the transformation of Macbeth from a hero to …show more content…
Before Lady Macbeth jumped off the castle, she had sleepwalked every night and mumbled. The “Out” of the “Standard”! Damned spot.” The use of metaphor, emphasises the destruction of Lady Macbeth by her conscience, and Shakespeare shifts the character again from a pure masculine evil to a stereotypically feminine character. In this scene, Lady Macbeth’s actions are dreamlike and hazy, whether it is because they are tired from the lack of sleep or because they cannot find rest and peace when they are asleep. On the other hand, after Macbeth hears the queen is dead, he says “Out! Out. Brief candle, Life’s a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, then is heard no more.” Shakespeare uses metaphor and personification to suggest how short, illusory, and pointless human life is and reflects Macbeth’s envy that Lady Macbeth can leave the ‘stage’ and is glad that Lady Macbeth leaves the stage of human life. In the end, Lady Macbeth decides to kill herself to escape from the suffering, and Macbeth decides to live with enduring the suffering. This is the consequence of the moral