The Loss Of Faith In Macbeth By William Shakespeare

The play Macbeth by William Shakespear goes through many different tragedies in Scotland following the main character, Macbeth, and the conflicts that took place. Viewing those events from the religious lens, there’s a lot of evidence that represents Macbeth’s visions and hallucinations where he goes against his faith, morals, and then receives those consequences. Since Shakespeare wrote this around the 1600s where religion was a huge debate in England, he sets out an example of Macbeth and his wife in the play of how going against their beliefs sets them to a path of hell and misery. Shakespeare also includes conscientious characters like Macduff where this signals the lesson of staying loyal to god and staying away from the dark like Witchcraft.

However, focusing mostly on Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, as their the main characters, readers can infer how they completely lose their faiths in the beginning of the play. When returning from battle, Macbeth and his best friend meet the three witches on the heath. Those witches predicted to Macbeth, “You shall be king.” (Act 1. Scene 3. 86) and Banquo shall be father of the kings. From this standpoint, the readers know that Macbeth understands that witches are evil and soul-taking and he still believes their prophecy. To extend this belief of the witches even more, Lady Macbeth encourages Macbeth to take actions and to fulfill the witches' prophecies. Along with that, the reader’s can see how weak Lady Macbeth’s belief is to god as she cries to the spirits to “unsex me” (Act 1. Scene 5. 41) where she can have the manly power to take actions herself. This encouragement takes both of our main characters even farther from their original belief in god. Shakespeare also includes Banquo’s perspective of this and his warning of how “the instruments of darkness tell us truths” (Act 1. Scene 3. 124) meaning that even though it's the truth, it may hurt us in the end. But, Macbeth decides to ignore this and continue his thoughts of intervening with the devil. Additionally, after Lady Macbeth and Macbeth’s successful attempt of murdering Duncan,

Morals can be seen as just a guide to living or as something that relates with how society accepts something as right or wrong. As for Macbeth, he was living in good-terms with everyone around him; especially King Duncan and his best friend. However after discovering the dark truth, his morals diminish and his greediness takes over. The first event that makes his morals fall apart is murdering King Duncan. Even though his unconscious part of the brain keeps telling him to stay loyal and be “his kinsman and his subject” (Act 1. Scene 7. 13), Macbeth gets pressured by Lady Macbeth to take actions and achieve his greedy goal. This act of murdering someone who Macbeth stayed heavily loyal to killed his morality and grew him to a stage of selfishness. With this, Shakespeare then puts his morality into different effects. The effects presented in the play were how Macbeth hallucinates about the bloody daggers that he uses to murder Duncan. This hallucination by Macbeth set by Shakespear represents how he’s actually losing his morality and increasing guilt in himself. Shakespeare also foreshadows the bloody daggers as a bloody path that Macbeth is about to go on. We also see some of the effects being related to religion which were the unusual things occuring after Duncan’s death. The two things that took effect were: the dimness in the sky during daytime