- We see in this Shakespeare play that evil is the common piece that links both Macbeth’s together along with the witches too.
- There is also the supernatural element with the witches messing with fate and free will of Macbeth.
- When Lady Macbeth hears the prophecy that her husband will becoming king of Scotland, it is that idea of more power which kick starts the evil inside her.
- Because the only way someone would be able to dethrone a king was to kill him.
- In Act 1 Scene 7, Lady Macbeth is using her influence as being the wife, to convince Macbeth to kill Duncan, the king of Scotland. She tells …show more content…
- Since Macbeth was also a decorated soldier he knew about the evil side in people, but he also was the guy when you wanted to look at loyalty because that was how he was raised. Being 100% loyal to the king.
- And that same loyalty was broken as soon as Lady Macbeth convinced Macbeth to do what he did.
- Macbeth had caused his own death as soon as he started to rely on the “supernatural.”
- The Witches can be thought of a symbol for evil or the dark side of human nature.
- We all have this dark side inside just waiting to come out but until someone tried to exploit this side, like the witches did in Macbeth, we will never know what the dark side really means to us.
- Finally we see that the actions of evil in Macbeth can all be justified by a continuous flow of idea from Macbeth being jealous about kingship, Lady Macbeth encouraging Macbeth so she can be queen, the 3 witches wanting to see how their plans play out.
- Humans are never satisfied with enough power and control; we are designed to keep wanting more and more. Even if that means falling to the evil side of