Through all elements of history, these will always be people who crave for power. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth is an allegory about a gentleman who wants to be a “uile-neartmhor” member of society through unrighteous methods. The question is…who has the most control throughout the story? The possibilities range from many different characters such as Macbeth, the Weird Sisters, or Lady Macbeth, who are all a big part of this classic piece of literature. Power not only flows through them, but they influence many people and that is perceived as a natural detail in the story- until it’s not.
Power tends to do one thing, if that person has too much, it tends to corrupt the individual. This is one of the most important things about Macbeth, in my …show more content…
At the beginning of the play, Macbeth seems like a fine guy with loyalty to the king, but little do you know that a case of insanity is below the surface. In the second scene of the play, King Duncan gets a report from a devoted servant about Macbeth during a recent war which tells of his progress in the battlefield. The servant tells of how brave and ferocious of a fighter he is by impaling enemies on his sword and running it up to their chin. “He unseam’d [one of them] from nave to the chaps” (Act 1, Scene 1) It shows that Macbeth is capable of extreme brutality and is physically powerful already. On his way from a battle with his best friend, Banquo, they meet a group of witches, called the Weird Sisters, who just decide to get into both of their lives. They prophesize that Macbeth will become the Thane of Cawdor and soon after, the King of Scotland. After returning home to his wife, Lady Macbeth, he tells of her what has happened and succumbs to his ambitions. Encouraged by his wife and prophecy, they murder the current king of Scotland, King Duncan. He slowly descends into a state of guilt and fear through various methods such as mistakenly bringing back the murder weapon after it went down, becoming paranoid and killing anybody who gets in the way of him keeping of the crown, and he becomes more violent, certainly, and ruthless. The guy …show more content…
It should be known that she is the “beloved” wife of her husband, Macbeth. She was the one who goads him into committing regicide, who after which she becomes the queen of Scotland. Making a powerful presence, she is emotionally and physically close to Macbeth, thus is able to alter her husband’s decisions. When King Duncan becomes her overnight guest after coming back from the war, she comes up with the despicable plan to kill King Duncan for his position. Duncan was not only a close friend to her husband, perhaps even he was father-figure of sorts, to Macbeth and he had his doubts about killing him. She was aware about her husband’s feelings is “too full o’ the milk of kindness” (Act 1, Scene 5) for committing such an act of murder. Not only did she drug the king’s guards, she tries to blame them for the murder by laying the daggers, with Duncan’s blood on it, near their state of drunken escapades. She takes on a more masculine role in Act 1, Scene 4 by challenging Macbeth: “When you durst do it, then you are man; / And to be more than what you were, you would / Be so much more of man.” That pretty much says Macbeth is not a man till he killed the king. With these kind of words that come really close to the title character, it makes sense they also wield great
Power tends to do one thing, if that person has too much, it tends to corrupt the individual. This is one of the most important things about Macbeth, in my …show more content…
At the beginning of the play, Macbeth seems like a fine guy with loyalty to the king, but little do you know that a case of insanity is below the surface. In the second scene of the play, King Duncan gets a report from a devoted servant about Macbeth during a recent war which tells of his progress in the battlefield. The servant tells of how brave and ferocious of a fighter he is by impaling enemies on his sword and running it up to their chin. “He unseam’d [one of them] from nave to the chaps” (Act 1, Scene 1) It shows that Macbeth is capable of extreme brutality and is physically powerful already. On his way from a battle with his best friend, Banquo, they meet a group of witches, called the Weird Sisters, who just decide to get into both of their lives. They prophesize that Macbeth will become the Thane of Cawdor and soon after, the King of Scotland. After returning home to his wife, Lady Macbeth, he tells of her what has happened and succumbs to his ambitions. Encouraged by his wife and prophecy, they murder the current king of Scotland, King Duncan. He slowly descends into a state of guilt and fear through various methods such as mistakenly bringing back the murder weapon after it went down, becoming paranoid and killing anybody who gets in the way of him keeping of the crown, and he becomes more violent, certainly, and ruthless. The guy …show more content…
It should be known that she is the “beloved” wife of her husband, Macbeth. She was the one who goads him into committing regicide, who after which she becomes the queen of Scotland. Making a powerful presence, she is emotionally and physically close to Macbeth, thus is able to alter her husband’s decisions. When King Duncan becomes her overnight guest after coming back from the war, she comes up with the despicable plan to kill King Duncan for his position. Duncan was not only a close friend to her husband, perhaps even he was father-figure of sorts, to Macbeth and he had his doubts about killing him. She was aware about her husband’s feelings is “too full o’ the milk of kindness” (Act 1, Scene 5) for committing such an act of murder. Not only did she drug the king’s guards, she tries to blame them for the murder by laying the daggers, with Duncan’s blood on it, near their state of drunken escapades. She takes on a more masculine role in Act 1, Scene 4 by challenging Macbeth: “When you durst do it, then you are man; / And to be more than what you were, you would / Be so much more of man.” That pretty much says Macbeth is not a man till he killed the king. With these kind of words that come really close to the title character, it makes sense they also wield great