“We are all victims of our own minds”. When an idea is planted in mind, it is a natural response to either fight it or become it. The theoretical three witches, which represent the demons that stay in the corner of a mind: evil, temptation, and weakness held Macbeth in a death grip. This leaves the reader believing that Macbeth is none other than a tragedy of his own character. He had battled external beings that were responsible for pressuring him to murder King Duncan. Believing that the murder might silence his own power hungry mind. Without a conscious, Macbeth would not have felt the remorse and compunction that followed after the murder of King Duncan. This made Macbeth somewhat humanly, as a result of an inhumane situation. The guilt, an expected feeling after a cold-blooded murder, led Macbeth to take a jump off the bridge of his mental sanity.
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In Macbeth’s case, Lady Macbeth was one of the external forces planting the idea in Macbeth's mind that he should kill King Duncan. Which eventually only led to his tragic downfall. Lady Macbeth let her desire to be queen take over her natural feminine instinct to support and care. We see that Lady Macbeth taunts her husband and forces him to believe that she is much stronger than him. In Act 1 Scene 3, Macbeth tries to fight the idea that Lady Macbeth is trying to plant in his mind by saying “if chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir”. This was an attempt to just let fate take its course and if he is supposed to be king, he will. Lady Macbeth then tells her husband that she would only see him as a man if he carried out her wishes to kill King Duncan, only influencing evil thoughts and slowly falling to her wishes. However, Lady Macbeth was not the only conflicting force interrupting Macbeth’s conscience
In Macbeth’s case, Lady Macbeth was one of the external forces planting the idea in Macbeth's mind that he should kill King Duncan. Which eventually only led to his tragic downfall. Lady Macbeth let her desire to be queen take over her natural feminine instinct to support and care. We see that Lady Macbeth taunts her husband and forces him to believe that she is much stronger than him. In Act 1 Scene 3, Macbeth tries to fight the idea that Lady Macbeth is trying to plant in his mind by saying “if chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir”. This was an attempt to just let fate take its course and if he is supposed to be king, he will. Lady Macbeth then tells her husband that she would only see him as a man if he carried out her wishes to kill King Duncan, only influencing evil thoughts and slowly falling to her wishes. However, Lady Macbeth was not the only conflicting force interrupting Macbeth’s conscience