Moral Self Destruction In Macbeth

In The story Macbeth by William Shakespeare It portrays how ruthless ambition coul lead to moral self destruction. In the story it also shows how the ambition and power can poison the mind and act as a disease to your brain. Lastly it shows how emotions can get the best if you. This connects to real life because there are a lot of people in real life that let their wants make them do something stupid. When people see power, they let it get the best of them and they do whatever it takes to reach where they want to be. In the story of macbeth it shows how Macbeth went against his morals to do something that he wanted to do, which he later regretted. Its incredible how this relates to real life because humans are known to let their wants get the best of them and make them do things that they will later regret. Humans are also known to be persuaded by other humans, this clearly happened when Macbeth was persuaded by lady macbeth. The point i will be making is that Macbeth let emotions get the best of him and his ambition led to moral self destruction after murdering the king. In this story there have been many situations where …show more content…
Although a fictional character, Macbeth did face corruption on the search for power, he even ended up murdering many of the innocent. Macbeth, being a great example of this shows how his only motive was to seek power and how it destroyed his very core. It goes to show how ruthless Macbeth became after he came to power. Not only was Macbeth the only one affected, Lady Macbeth making the decision to encourage the murders ended up going insane. It’s important to know why we have a democratic government, we elect those who we believe can handle the power. This text proves why democracy is more effective than the monarchy we had before. That 's why we need to be responsible with the power we attain and not let it control us, power can