Personal Fulfillment In Macbeth

It's possible to bake the cake that you have always wanted to, but when you take a bite of the most glorious cake you've ever laid your eyes upon, it ends up being the worst taste that you've ever experienced. If you've done something similar to this, then you can relate to Macbeth in Shakespeare's play Macbeth. In this play, Shakespeare suggests that personal fulfillment is defined as being successful in achieving your goal. Although when we cheat fate to achieve our goals it comes with unexpected negative results.

Macbeth was a virtuous man at the start of the play, that is until the witches showed up and completely changed the Macbeth we knew. Macbeth could easily kill another man in a brutal matter, but he had high moral standards. However,

Macbeth believes that fate will not appoint him king as fast as he would like it to, he knows that to become king as fast as possible that he must intervene with fate. As a result, Macbeth begins to imagine himself doing this exact act, he knows it’s a horrific thought to be thinking, but that just shows how desperately he wants to become king; he would commit the greatest sinful crime a person can commit. As he stood aside Macbeth says to himself “If good, why do I yield to that suggestion / Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair / And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, / Against the use of nature? Present fears / Are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, / Shakes so my single state of man” (I, iii, 144-150) We know that Macbeth is already on the path to achieving what he wants, but it isn’t going to be a saintly road for

Luckily for Macbeth Duncan is staying at his castle for the night, making it the perfect scene for Macbeth to commit the murder. Although Macbeth wants to murder Duncan, he is too full of the milk of human kindness to be able to do it on his own. However, Lady Macbeth is able to help Macbeth become the ruthless butcher that he needs to be. Lady Macbeth says to Macbeth “Bear welcome in your eye, /

Your hand, your tongue. Look like th' innocent flower, / But be the serpent under ’t. He that’s coming / Must be provided for; and you shall put / This night’s great business into my dispatch, / Which shall to all our nights and days to come / Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.” (I, v, 71-77) This tells us of the ruthlessness that Lady Macbeth is instilling into Macbeth to help him become the