The Emotions Of Greed In William Shakespeare's Macbeth

As human beings we all have different emotions, some good and some bad. How we chose to handle these emotions is when we get a look at the true character that is in all of us. Greed is a very powerful emotion that can be controlled, but if you are not careful it can control your actions, your mind, your speech, and your relationships. Macbeth is a character that was unable to control his greed and shows just how much greed can corrupt someone. In the beginning of the play we see Macbeth as a humble soldier, fighting for his country and his king. When Macbeth and his friend, Banquo, stumble across the three witches we see a little bit of pride in these two men as they make fun of the witch 's appearances. Pride is a human emotions that …show more content…
Macbeth is full of guilt about killing the king, but as he and Lady Macbeth are crowned king and queen his greed washes all of his guilt away. Once Macbeth is crowned king Banquo begins to suspect that Macbeth had murdered Duncan. Macbeth is so greedy for power that he orders murderers to kill Banquo and his son. This is another example of how greed controls relationships. Macbeth has become so greedy that even his friendship with Banquo did not matter. This shows that Macbeth will do anything in order to keep his …show more content…
The once humble soldier is now a tyrant. He seems to have lost all consciousness of his deeds and his mind is only focused on keeping the power he had gained. All of his relationships have been compromised and he has no concern for Scotland 's wellbeing. The only care he has is for his own selfish ambitions. All of the killing that Macbeth had done was just to cover up for his first mistake of killing the king. Macbeth 's lust and greed destroyed to families, and killed many innocent and helpless people. Before his rise to power Macbeth would have died fighting to stop the bloodshed of innocent people, but now he was contributing to it. Macbeth had become so accustomed to the power, that he was unwilling to let it slip away. Due to the witch 's prophesy Macbeth sees himself as a god. The witches told him that no man born from a women would be able to kill him and Macbeth sees this as him being immortal. This only adds to Macbeth 's vision of himself, because he now sees himself of being above any