How do People Become Evil? How do people become evil; is it man-made or is there something beyond our comprehension? Macbeth wasn’t evil but had a psychotic break that led him to commit evil crimes at the thought of something bigger leading him to commit these crimes, yet they were his own free will. The Shakespearean play Macbeth has many themes and motifs that symbolize the downfall of the mind after dishonorable acts; but are these acts products of an evil person or something beyond our understanding? The play Macbeth has multiple symbolisms and motifs that depict who Macbeth is as a character, but was Macbeth really what he was depicted as? In my opinion, Macbeth wasn’t initially evil, he gradually became unreasonable, he caused his own …show more content…
In reality, there probably were no witches that told him the prophecy and he’d just hallucinated them. He had hallucinated later on, but how do we know that it wasn’t just another mental instability that he was dealing with? We know from the accounts of the dagger, seeing Banquo at the banquet, and the floating head that warns him of Macduff that his sanity is deteriorating. Maybe the theory of “fate” really isn’t fate. In the text of the Shakespearean play Macbeth it states “I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. A dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressedèd brain?” (Act 2 Sc. 1). The adage of the adage. This quote is the first account of hallucination that Macbeth acknowledges during the play. These apparitions and hallucinations are contributing to the deterioration of his mind which leads him to do unspeakable things out of paranoia, guilt, and fear. Another example of his mental break was after the murder of Banquo; in the play Banquo is a close friend of Macbeth but Macbeth thinks he is catching on to the crimes he commits and eventually orders for him to be killed. From the text of Macbeth it tells us