Demise of an Ambitious Follower Is Macbeth a beacon for violence and sin in his time? Macbeth is jealous and destructive, he was terrible to the people around him and easily manipulated by negative influences. He follows the horrid guide of sin toward his grand demise. Throughout the story, Macbeth displays many emotions and violent mannerisms, which crushes him, for it is not who he could be. The negative influence of sin led Macbeth to want more than he could have. The prophecies of the three untrustworthy sisters, promising him power that he so greatly wished for and thrived for, which he also blindly followed, only became true because of his devilish behaviours throughout the story; Macbeth slayed his friends and loved ones just to feel powerful and important. Was …show more content…
Scotland rested on this man’s shoulders, and in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Macbeth let that responsibility crumble him into a weak-minded knight, blindly following his only motivators, Envy, Wrath, and Greed. Macbeth envies his friends and people above him, this leads him to strive for and create lethal actions against people he loves, This is not only due to himself, but Lady Macbeth as well, Lady Macbeth manipulates Macbeth with fluency and no hesitation at all, proving that Lady Macbeth suffers from pride. At the point in which Lady Macbeth gets the idea in Macbeth’s head that he can have power, he starts to push away and repent his friends, for the simple fact that they are more powerful than him, he cannot separate the idea of personality from his strive for perfection in himself, that perfection which he will never reach. The primary factor of