Macbeth 's downfall: it is his own Macfault
Everyone is in control of how life works out. With the choices they make, the goals they set, and thenatural traits they have. Some are good at art so they choose to become artists. Others are gifted with athletic strength so with hard work and trading they seek to be pro athletes. In the play of Macbeth Macbeth’s path leads to his own downfall. Through his choices, personality, and sense of right and wrong he slowly becomes a power-thirsty tyrant. All these ingredients mix together to create “an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter 'd” (4.3.104).
Hamartia is a big word for a fatal flaw. All of Shakespeare 's tragic heroes have a fatal flaw. For Brutus in Julius Caesar it was that he saw the world the way …show more content…
While a cheetah hunts a gazelle based on instinct and need, humans have the luxury and ability to choose what they do in life. Macbeth is clearly a human therefore he has choice. Macbeth decides to take action when Duncan declares Malcolm as the heir to Scotland. He says aside “The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step/on which I must fall down, or else o 'erleap, /for in my way it lies” (1.4.55-57). He is in that moment making a choice to take charge of his so called fate and let nothing stand in his way of the crown. The plot to kill Duncan is the next choice he makes starting his downfall. After much debate he finally gives in to Lady Macbeth, making his choice in that moment, and is ready to kill Duncan. The quotation reads “I dare do all that may become a man” (1.7.50-51). Like any person Macbeth has a lot of choices in his life and although others may help make decisions what is chosen ultimately up to the individual.
A moral compass is a term used to describe some one 's sense of right and wrong. This compass is what people use to make decisions. All humans all have one and even the worst of people can tell the difference between good and bad. The viewers see glimpses of Macbeth 's moral compass throughout the play. When he does not want to …show more content…
Things such as the supernatural, Lady Macbeth, or even fate itself. Everyone has forces working against them but what an individual does next is what defines them. The witches are one of these forces they seem to plant the seed of ambition in Macbeth 's head but nothing more. Their prophecy goes “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis! /All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor! /All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter” (1.3.48-50). The witches only serve to get the plot started it is Macbeth that first has the idea of killing Duncan and starting his downfall. He says this right after the prophecies “My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,/Shakes so my single state of man/ That function is smother 'd in surmise,/and nothing is but what is not” (1.3.52-55). The witches have said nothing of murder but this is the only thing on his mind. Showing how his thought process goes immediately to bad decisions to get ahead. Lady Macbeth is a grand manipulator in the play but it does not mean the audience can let Macbeth off the hook. Lady Macbeth plays with his manhood saying “When you durst do it, then you were a man;/and to be more than what you were, you would/Be so much more the man” (1.7.49-51). Even with his so called manhood at stake he still has a choice between good and bad. Since he does not want to be seen as a coward he
Everyone is in control of how life works out. With the choices they make, the goals they set, and thenatural traits they have. Some are good at art so they choose to become artists. Others are gifted with athletic strength so with hard work and trading they seek to be pro athletes. In the play of Macbeth Macbeth’s path leads to his own downfall. Through his choices, personality, and sense of right and wrong he slowly becomes a power-thirsty tyrant. All these ingredients mix together to create “an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter 'd” (4.3.104).
Hamartia is a big word for a fatal flaw. All of Shakespeare 's tragic heroes have a fatal flaw. For Brutus in Julius Caesar it was that he saw the world the way …show more content…
While a cheetah hunts a gazelle based on instinct and need, humans have the luxury and ability to choose what they do in life. Macbeth is clearly a human therefore he has choice. Macbeth decides to take action when Duncan declares Malcolm as the heir to Scotland. He says aside “The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step/on which I must fall down, or else o 'erleap, /for in my way it lies” (1.4.55-57). He is in that moment making a choice to take charge of his so called fate and let nothing stand in his way of the crown. The plot to kill Duncan is the next choice he makes starting his downfall. After much debate he finally gives in to Lady Macbeth, making his choice in that moment, and is ready to kill Duncan. The quotation reads “I dare do all that may become a man” (1.7.50-51). Like any person Macbeth has a lot of choices in his life and although others may help make decisions what is chosen ultimately up to the individual.
A moral compass is a term used to describe some one 's sense of right and wrong. This compass is what people use to make decisions. All humans all have one and even the worst of people can tell the difference between good and bad. The viewers see glimpses of Macbeth 's moral compass throughout the play. When he does not want to …show more content…
Things such as the supernatural, Lady Macbeth, or even fate itself. Everyone has forces working against them but what an individual does next is what defines them. The witches are one of these forces they seem to plant the seed of ambition in Macbeth 's head but nothing more. Their prophecy goes “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis! /All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor! /All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter” (1.3.48-50). The witches only serve to get the plot started it is Macbeth that first has the idea of killing Duncan and starting his downfall. He says this right after the prophecies “My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,/Shakes so my single state of man/ That function is smother 'd in surmise,/and nothing is but what is not” (1.3.52-55). The witches have said nothing of murder but this is the only thing on his mind. Showing how his thought process goes immediately to bad decisions to get ahead. Lady Macbeth is a grand manipulator in the play but it does not mean the audience can let Macbeth off the hook. Lady Macbeth plays with his manhood saying “When you durst do it, then you were a man;/and to be more than what you were, you would/Be so much more the man” (1.7.49-51). Even with his so called manhood at stake he still has a choice between good and bad. Since he does not want to be seen as a coward he