In Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth, it appears that the conflicts a character undergoes greatly examines that character’s development. Upon evaluating Macbeth, it is recognizable that Macbeth’s struggle and thirst for power created the loss of his own conscience. When thinking about the word poverty, many determine it as a financial struggle, thus a simple loss for basic necessities,; however, it contains many different elements to it. Poverty affects a person’s emotions and ability to operate in a constantly changing society. In Macbeth, Shakespeare illustrates internal conflict in order to express ethical and emotional poverty.
Macbeth made questionable, unethical choices in order to gain his hierarchy. For example, with Lady Macbeth’s pressure, he was persuaded to kill King Duncan, thus becoming King of Scotland. Though this may be perceived as an influenced choice instilled by Lady Macbeth, it was Macbeth’s own thoughts that were allowing him to finalize that decision. Another example, proving his unethical methods, is in the following quote, “...With barefaced power sweep him from my sight and bid
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Throughout his life Macbeth had faced two major scarring and emotional conflicts, such as witnessing the miscarriage of one of his children, as referenced by Lady Macbeth, and feeling underappreciated through his work as a war hero. This emotional trauma had already made him slightly unstable, so when proceeding to commit murders his emotional sensitivity diminished into a state of pure denial. For example, through the murders, particularly with King Duncan and Banquo, not only did it prove that he had become completely unattached with his emotions, but it also showed that he was unable to comprehend the guilt. His guilt for killing his best friend, Banquo is best determined through his encounter with Banquo’s