The greatest is behind. Thanks for your pains. Do you not hope your children shall be Kings when those that gave the thane of Cawdor to me promised to me no less to them?”(The Tragedy of Macbeth Act 1 scene 3 line 119-124 ). At this part, in the play a light bulb goes off; in Macbeth’s head about and how to become King and how to maintain being King. It is also, where we see the greed and impure deadly thoughts in his head whirling around, first come up with the play. His impure thoughts and greed is something he struggles with throughout the entire play. He is essentially saying, in the quote that one part came true, so the second one must also come true. From this quote that we can tell that the he thought of being king before the three witches and what he would have to do to become King of …show more content…
That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap, For in my lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.” (The Tragedy of Macbeth Act 1 scene 4 lines 50-55). Here Macbeth is saying that he is going to have to step over anybody, in this case, the King’s first born son Malcolm to become King. He also says here that he can't put my emotions and love for my family to get to my goal of becoming must only think about the end game for me which is to become King of Scotland. In the play, Macbeth killed King Duncan, Banquo, the King's guards as well as MacDuff’s son and wife. Some of the murders were to get status or to maintain the status of being king