The night that Duncan is killed, a magnificent change in his mentality was evoked, making it easier for him to conduct ill actions. Macbeth grasps the sudden ulterior power to become the king, and his emotions overthrows his conscience. In Macbeth’s soliloquy in Act 2, he begins to hallucinate, “is this dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?” (14). Despite Duncan not being dead, he gets ahead of himself and begins to panic, elucidating the focal point of the play. Macbeth’s reaction alone depicts the inconsistent fear that Macbeth has inside him; however, due to his crave for power, he strives to pursue his goal in killing Duncan.
Shakespeare believes that ambition, when taken too far leads to our destruction as shown through Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Macbeth noticed it was too far to turn back, so he continues his murderous, bloody path. In the beginning of the play, Macbeth is a heroic soldier who fights for the king without mercy but he has strikes for ambition, his curious nature and his wife’s ambition leads him to the witches who told him the prophecies. After the second prophecy has come true Macbeth has become the thane of Cawdor. He has led to growth of his ambition by his thought “whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and Ames my seated heart knock at my rib again the use of nature?
Shakespeare believes that ambition, when taken too far leads to our destruction as shown through Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, however after he has realize what he has done it. He has notice it was too far to turn back, so he continues his murderous, bloody path. In the beginning of the play Macbeth is a heroic soldier who fights for the king without mercy but he has strike for ambition, his curious nature and his wife ambition leads him to the witches who give him the prophecies. After the second prophecy has come true is
Macbeth feels threatened by Fleance after the witches told Banquo his prophecy, which was that he will have a line of kings. “Fleance, his son, that keeps him company, / Whose absence is no less material to me / Than is his father’s, must embrace the fate / Of that dark hour” (3.2.134-138). Macbeth wants to kill Fleance as he is a threat to Macbeth’s title. This relates to the theme because Macbeth decides to take action in order for the prophecy to be proven wrong, so he sends the murders out to kill Banquo and Fleance. Macbeth’s disillusionment is present as he gets caught up in the prophecy and does anything just to alter it.
(I.iii.50). Macbeth knows there is a chance he can be the king now and he is ready to put all his efforts into succeeding this. He is skeptical at first but he decides it is what he wants. As time progresses on he constantly ponders on the Witches prophecies. Although at first, Macbeth does not believe the prophecies.
Shakespeare believes that ambition, when taken too far leads to our destruction as shown through Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. In the beginning of the play, Macbeth is a heroic soldier who fights for the king without mercy, but he has strikes for ambition, his curious nature and his wife’s ambition leads him to the witches who told him the prophecies. After the second prophecy has come true, Macbeth has become the thane of Cawdor. He has led to the growth of his ambition by his thought “whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and Ames my seated heart knock at my rib again the use of
Macbeth in the play is a complex character and this is aided by many alterations performed by Shakespeare against the true history. In actuality Macbeth was a cruel man, who punished crimes to the extreme. But Shakespeare’s Macbeth was a man who Shakespeare presents as gentle, and a thoughtful man who can love wholeheartedly, as we see in his interactions with his wife. His wife had to convince him to murder the king and Lady Macbeth even says, basically, that Macbeth is too nice specifically saying about Macbeth: "... too full o' th' milk of human kindness/To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great,/Art not without ambition, but without/The illness should attend it."
Throughout the major plot-points of the play, the “protagonist” proves the old adage correct: actions do speak louder than words. As the plot progresses, the reader is exposed to Macbeth’s need to quench his thirst for kingdom. Up to the second act of the play Macbeth has only revealed his intentions secretly, during an aside or towards his wife. Alas, when Duncan arrives at the castle, the “hero” decides to take action: “I go, and it is done…Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell” (II i 62-64). Here, the reader sees that Macbeth has already made a decision- he will kill his king.
The play follows him through his power struggle to the kingship, and it is not a good one. Macbeth does the unthinkable to get where he wants to be, which eventually causes him to lose his mind. The quote “Foul is fair, and fair is foul” is reflected in Macbeth 's climb. He get what he wants, to be king (fair). But then the crimes he commited get to his head, he goes crazy which leads to many more painful events.
However, this turns to hate for the witches as he is double crossed by them and they start telling him prophecies such as “Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.” Which gives him a false sense of security that eventually is ruined by learning that Macduff was cut out of the womb instead of a regular birth (IV,I,79-81). The double meanings of the witches’ prophecies are always learned to late by Macbeth and one that originally gives hope to Macbeth