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Role Of Power In Macbeth

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Who…or what…holds the most power to influence the actions of others throughout The Tragedy of Macbeth? Macbeth is a tyrant and a murderer seeking to be king of his nation, so what influenced him to become this tyrant of the state? during The Tragedy of Macbeth several murders occur and a lot of them start off with Macbeth seeking power or eliminating anyone who would be suspicious of his actions. This makes him seem insane to the public and his best friends to the point where MacDuff goes to England and creates an army to combat Macbeth. Fear is what killed the man named Macbeth and influences everything in The Tragedy of Macbeth. The death of Banquo was caused by Macbeth and this tor him up inside making him more paranoid for after the first death then one guy got suspicious, but when the king was kill it didn’t raddle Macbeth like it did his peer. “Methought I heard a …show more content…

But was Macbeth the only one that was effected by these deaths? and what happens to man when the fear is too great. “since his majesty went into the field, I have seen her rise from her bed, throw her night gown upon her, unlock her closet, take forth paper, fold it, write upon’t, read it, afterwards seal it, and again return to bed; yet all this while in a most fast sleep” (Macbeth V, i). Lady Macbeth, a stubborn woman that thirsts for power. She shocks the crowds majorly by killing herself at the end, though between her and Macbeth she was the more stable one. The gilt was so unbearable that she starts to sleepwalk confessing her sins. Unlike Macbeth. “Wish the estate o’ the world was now undone. Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! Come, wrack! At least we’ll die with harness on our back” (Macbeth V, v). Unlike lady Macbeth witch feels gilt, Macbeth himself is driven crazy by the fear of discovery and now realizing he had nothing else to loose he now starts a war with an army verses one

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