Macbeth Good Vs Evil

“Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor players that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” (V. v. 23-28). This despondent epiphany springs from the lips of the title character of William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, a tragic portrait of a man who suffers the torment of phantoms of his own moral decay, alongside guilt, inordinate paranoia, and fervent temptation toward sin due the loss of his integrity to the perils of bloody ambition. Though perhaps he may bear a greater inclination toward evil than most, Macbeth is not a monster, but rather he is merely another casualty to the infirmity of humanity, for he possess an

It is explicitly Macbeth’s human weakness that causes him to give in to the allure of power and pay the ultimate price.
Macbeth, by nature, has a visceral desire to conduct himself as a paragon of virtue. “He’s here in double trust: 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. Besides, this Duncan hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been so clear in his great office, that his virtues will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against the deep damnation of his taking off; and pity, like a naked newborn babe, striding the blast, or heaven’s cherubim, horsed upon the sightless couriers of the air, shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, that tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on th' other” (I. vii. 12-28). Macbeth frankly acknowledges how unsound his ambitions to the throne are and reaffirms his duties as King

“Methought I heard a voice cry,….‘Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleep no more.’…I am afraid to think what I have done; look on ’t again I dare not….Whence is that knocking? How it ’t with me when every noise appals me” (II. ii. 33-56)? A terrifying combination of guilt, remorse, and anxiety over his violence leave Macbeth’s mind in such fearful, dire straits that may never sleep soundly again, supplementing his insanity and delusions. Furthermore, his cowardly disposition erodes his confidence as a man and as a ruler, leaving his heart pallid and highly sensitive to even the slightest of scares. While Macbeth claims that he no longer knows fear and emotion since atrocities become so familiar to him over the course of the play, the intensity of his emotional state is still very reliant on the circumstances of his situation, such as when his courage falters after Macduff reveals that he is not born of a woman. Macbeth is certainly a man who is at the mercy of his emotions and cannot possibly act without the feeling emotive reverberations echo within the entirety of his