The characters in Macbeth and how their own self-perception played out in the entirety of the play. First off, there is Macbeth himself who started out as a trustworthy, noble, and valiant gentleman, and as the play went on, he slowly spiralled into a life of murdering people or having them murdered. Then there is his wife, Lady Macbeth who was seen as an innocent, kind, and caring but, like Macbeth as their lives went on she went crazy as she couldn’t sleep properly or at all due to nightmares, it made her go insane even to the point of sleepwalking and sleep talking. All of this because the witches told Macbeth a few prophecies which he believed because he could not differentiate illusion from reality, some of the things that happened in the play only took place mainly because of his actions that forced it to come true. Self-perception in the play turned some characters of the play for the worse, because they wanted to make something come true because they were told it would happen, thus letting the witches manipulate them. …show more content…
Macbeth being told he would become the thane of Cawdor further led him to believe that the other prophecies the witches had told him would come true. When Macbeth told his wife, Lady Macbeth, she quickly turned for the worse as she called for the evil to fill her because her greed for more power came to light. In truth, Lady Macbeth ripping Macbeth of his manhood right before the murder is also a main cause for the murder of Duncan as Macbeth probably would not have done it himself alone, without any push to do it. That’s because Macbeth’s self-perception of himself is all manly as shown in “I dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more is none.” but Lady Macbeth hurting his pride caused him to want to prove to her that he really is