Conscience has been in each person since the day they were born. The brain does not let the body do things when the conscience is effected by an action. There have been studies done to prove this fact. The play “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare proves these facts to the reader through the protagonist, Macbeth. Macbeth learns important truths about life throughout the play. He learns that the conscience exists, the mind is connected to the soul, and human nature will always exist.
The first way that Macbeth realizes that conscience exists is through the murder. Macbeth plans to kill Duncan, the king of Scotland at the time, with the help of Lady Macbeth. Macbeth gets this idea from three witches that tell Macbeth that he is destined to be king. At first Macbeth was not going to kill Duncan until Lady Macbeth
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After he kills Duncan, Macbeth says he is unable to sleep ever again. It is a proven fact that one cannot sleep while the conscience is disturbed. When Macbeth tries to sleep, his mind is filled with the images of his dead friends. No one is able to sleep under these conditions. Another way Macbeth learns that effects of the mind is through making irrational decisions. Once the mind is corrupt from one wrong thing, it is more susceptible to another wrong doing. Macbeth kills Duncan and then Banquo along with his children. He is corrupt and will continue to make wrong doings. The last example is being a witness. Lady Macbeth is irrational at night time. She walks around yelling at an imaginary spot. Lady Macbeth says “Out, damned spot! out, I say!—One: two: why,/ then, 'tis time to do't.—Hell is murky!—Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?—Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?” She is talking about the blood that is on her hands as a result from the murder. This is the power of the