Macbeth Role Model Essay

Macbeth is a very interesting character in the play Macbeth. We see him throughout the first three acts dealing with various moods. Macbeth started off in the beginning of the play as a commander of an army. Macbeth was told by three witches that he was going to become a king. One of Macbeth 's sergeants tells us that Macbeth was courageous. No one can tell us more about Macbeth than his wife. Macbeth started off as a good leader in battle to a king of Cawdor. Macbeth was married to the wrong person in my opinion. His wife led him to do some things that were against God 's will. Once Macbeth started to do evil he couldn 't stop. He kept on doing some things that were not right. After he gets caught in evil he goes crazy. We can learn a lot …show more content…
They both tell us that Macbeth was courageous in battle. Macbeth obviously stood up for his army and did whatever he needed to do in order for his army to succeed in battle. In this example Macbeth is a great role model for us. He shows us that we need to do whatever it takes to help others. The sergeant while he was dying said, “Do swarm upon him-from the western isles of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied. For brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name.” The sergeant is telling us that in the battle they were outnumbered and that Ireland had way more footsoldiers and cavalry. He said that Macbeth wasn 't going to depart from Macdonwald, commander of Ireland, until he ripped open the navel to his jaws. The sergeant basically told us that he wasn’t going to back down from war until he killed the commander of …show more content…
We see Lady Macbeth leading Macbeth into sin and then trying to change him. Lady Macbeth said, “Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it.” Lady Macbeth is talking about Macbeth when she is saying this. When she is talking about illness she isn’t talking about being sick. Lady Macbeth is talking about evil. When she talks about this, she is saying that Macbeth is caught it evil and he can’t change. Lady Macbeth lead Macbeth into sin. She told Macbeth that he had to kill Duncan in order for him to be king. Macbeth promised Lady Macbeth that he would kill Duncan in order for her to be king. Lady Macbeth that she would kill her babies if she promised to. We can see that she is leading Macbeth into murder. After the murder of Duncan was finished, she didn 't care about the murder she only cared about the evidence being destroyed. Once Macbeth did this deed he couldn’t get the evil out of him. Macbeth knew that he did something wrong and that he shouldn’t of done what he did. I believe that Macbeth knows that he shouldn 't do the things that he does, but he just can 't control it. Next he wanted to kill Duncan’s sons, Malcolm and Donalbain. Lady Macbeth didn’t know about this second murder. Lady Macbeth asked Macbeth what was going on and he didn 't tell her. We can see that since the first murder that Macbeth stopped being loyal to his wife. Macbeth should have told his wife about