“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” Macbeth (4.1.44-45). Written in 1606, Shakespeare’s Macbeth has been one of his most famous works, alongside Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. This play takes place in 11th century Scotland and is about a man named Macbeth, who struggles between the balances of good and bad, and his journey from being just a general of Scotland to being decapitated as the King of Scotland. He and his wife, Lady Macbeth, become the new king and queen of Scotland when three witches tell Macbeth that he will become the new Thane of Cawdor and later the new king. When he returns home, King Duncan tells him that since his previous Thane of Cawdor had betrayed him, he will become the new Thane. Realizing that the prophecy the witches told were true, Lady Macbeth suggests he murder the king in order to make sure it comes true, so he does. This, however, leads him to become a threat to everyone he knows. He doesn’t want people to know that he …show more content…
During the first act, Macbeth is very skeptical of the witches because he doesn’t trust them, but once he is named Thane of Cawdor, then he starts to take more of an interest in the prophecy that he was told. He gets more excited and to make sure that it becomes true, he decides to kill King Duncan, which is when things start to go downhill. As stated before, Macbeth doesn’t want anyone to know that he was the one who killed the king. Therefore, in order to make sure that no one finds out, he decides to hire two murderers to kill his friend Banquo and his son Fleance. This is when Macbeth starts to go crazy and almost greedy. He becomes so worried about people finding out that he killed the king; he is faced with the decision to either tell the truth or to continue to kill his friends in order to hide the