Macbeth Theme is Greed
Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespeare, and Macbeth lets greed get the best of him. He was thought as a hero but that all turned around when three witches introduced greed to Macbeth, which made him lose everything. So as the famous philosopher Erich Fromm said, “Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.”
Lady Macbeth pushes Macbeth to kill Duncan because she wants to become queen. Lady Macbeth found out what the witches said to Macbeth in the letter he wrote to her. They said that he would first become Thane of Cawdor, and then become king. She wants them to come true immediately, so she pushes Macbeth to her full extent just to get what she wants, to become queen. She wants him to kill the king, Duncan.
“What beast was’t then, that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man;and to be more that what you were, you would be so much more the man. Nor time nor place did then adhere, and yet you would make both. They have made themselves, and that their fitness now does unmake you. I have given strude, and know how tender’ tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums. And dash 'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this” (I.vii. 47-59).
Lady Macbeth is telling Macbeth that he is a coward if he does not kill Duncan. Macbeth would