Macbeth Having Too Much Power Analysis

Possessing recommended amounts of power could be beneficial to ourselves from time to time. However, owning excessive amounts of it could result where we cannot seem to control it. As seen in Shakespeare’s Macbeth demonstrates how quickly a person can change by having too much power causes drawback. Over the course of the play, his dominance causes Macbeth to alter from an honorable thane into a cruel and fearless tyrant which will eventually make corruption of his actions.
At the beginning of the play, the reader is informed that Macbeth was victorious in a battle and is respected by the king. Subsequently, when the witches told him the prophecy that he will become king, Macbeth states, “If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me. Without my stir” (I.iii.147). His loyalty is so strong that he is determined not to commit a cruel action against his king. This can only mean that fate will …show more content…
Macbeth is slowly developing to becoming unafraid when he was having a discussion with the doctors, he states “The mind I sway by and the heart I bear, Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear” (V.iii.10). Macbeth’s mind is not frightened by the possible danger coming to him because he knows that he is immune to anyone who born from a woman. Soon after, he heard a scream which he quickly thought about what is it like to have fear, he said, “I have almost forgot the taste of fears. The time has been my senses would have cooled. To hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair. Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir” (V.v.21). Macbeth just wondered that he was forgotten what like to have fear. Since he is always committing many amounts of cruel actions, it become very familiar to him. In the final session of the play, Macbeth is a fearless tyrant which ultimately forgets his horror due to plenty of killings and believes the wicked prophecy of the