Bear Grylls once said, “a man’s pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.” It’s fine to receive help and support from surrounding people if it will help fix a problem. Although this is true, others around you that are being relied on to support and guide you are actually the people leading to the downfall. Not all times the people that someone might love and trust are helping push them in the right direction. In reality they are really pushing them further and further in the wrong direction towards their own downfall. In the play Macbeth, Shakespeare shows Macbeth’s downfall due the influential people around him and his own over-confidence.
First, the witches contributed to Macbeth’s …show more content…
All of Macbeth’s obstacles are the outcome of him planning to kill Duncan and eventually going through with that plan. By murdering Duncan that proved that Macbeth didn’t care about a person that potentially trusted him. Macbeth’s mindset was now focussed on killing to achieve what he wanted and what he was promised. This was evident in his soliloquy, “My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,/ Shakes so my single state of man that function/ is smothered in surmise, and nothing is,/ But what it is not” (1.3.138-141). In order to become king, his only option was to kill even though that was the worst possible choice. Once people became aware of Duncan’s murder, Macbeth chose to kill the guards that he and his wife had framed. He believed that they would somehow prove that they had not done anything and then go after Macbeth and his wife. He admits, “O, yet I do repent me of my fury/ That I did kill them” (2.3.98-99). After this action was when his friends started to suspect him. Now that they knew he would kill these guards so easily who else would he kill? Or who else has he already killed? This finally led people like Macduff and Malcolm to lead a rebellion against him to stop him from doing even more terrible things. Since he was so fixated on his power and remaining king this resulted in his
First, the witches contributed to Macbeth’s …show more content…
All of Macbeth’s obstacles are the outcome of him planning to kill Duncan and eventually going through with that plan. By murdering Duncan that proved that Macbeth didn’t care about a person that potentially trusted him. Macbeth’s mindset was now focussed on killing to achieve what he wanted and what he was promised. This was evident in his soliloquy, “My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,/ Shakes so my single state of man that function/ is smothered in surmise, and nothing is,/ But what it is not” (1.3.138-141). In order to become king, his only option was to kill even though that was the worst possible choice. Once people became aware of Duncan’s murder, Macbeth chose to kill the guards that he and his wife had framed. He believed that they would somehow prove that they had not done anything and then go after Macbeth and his wife. He admits, “O, yet I do repent me of my fury/ That I did kill them” (2.3.98-99). After this action was when his friends started to suspect him. Now that they knew he would kill these guards so easily who else would he kill? Or who else has he already killed? This finally led people like Macduff and Malcolm to lead a rebellion against him to stop him from doing even more terrible things. Since he was so fixated on his power and remaining king this resulted in his