The Evil Temptation In Shakespeare’s Macbeth (1623), the reader learns about the main character Macbeth, who is doomed to face a tragic fate due to his greedy ambition of wanting to become king of Scotland. In the play, he appears to be an overall reprehensible man, however, there were many factors that motivated him to engage in such heinous acts – including murder and regicide to name a few – in order to fulfill his ambition. Although his nefarious deeds may show that he is a terrible human being, Macbeth indeed revealed moral qualities and was an unfortunate victim of temptation given that external influences incited him to pursue his desire with unforeseen negative consequences that lay ahead of him.
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Such negative effects seen in Macbeth include being mentally unstable and feeling constantly anxious because he was hallucinating imaginary-figures that were never physically present (e.g. the flying dagger and ghosts). Essentially, one price he paid was dealing with a schizophrenic-like mental condition. For all that was worth about listening to the witches was that they were right about Macbeth’s succession to the crown, but at what cost? Their prophecy was too ambiguous that it never occurred to Macbeth to realize nor fear the price he would have to pay for his desires – namely, his own life. Due to his tyrannical and unethical actions, this set him up as a target for murder – how ironical. The readers find out that just as Macbeth perpetrated regicide when he killed Duncan, was the same way that Macbeth died – Maduff defeated Macbeth, restoring Scotland to Malcolm.
Clearly, Macbeth was not demonic nor a monster, but a victim of temptation who was indisputably influenced by malignant characters and provoked by his own egotistical ambition. Moreover, he was initially a noble soldier with moral integrity, and despite of his unethical actions, he still showed his sense of ethics through his guilt of his murderous acts. Otherwise, if Macbeth was truly a monster he would manifest no remorse nor troubling-like
From the start of the play, one …show more content…
Such negative effects seen in Macbeth include being mentally unstable and feeling constantly anxious because he was hallucinating imaginary-figures that were never physically present (e.g. the flying dagger and ghosts). Essentially, one price he paid was dealing with a schizophrenic-like mental condition. For all that was worth about listening to the witches was that they were right about Macbeth’s succession to the crown, but at what cost? Their prophecy was too ambiguous that it never occurred to Macbeth to realize nor fear the price he would have to pay for his desires – namely, his own life. Due to his tyrannical and unethical actions, this set him up as a target for murder – how ironical. The readers find out that just as Macbeth perpetrated regicide when he killed Duncan, was the same way that Macbeth died – Maduff defeated Macbeth, restoring Scotland to Malcolm.
Clearly, Macbeth was not demonic nor a monster, but a victim of temptation who was indisputably influenced by malignant characters and provoked by his own egotistical ambition. Moreover, he was initially a noble soldier with moral integrity, and despite of his unethical actions, he still showed his sense of ethics through his guilt of his murderous acts. Otherwise, if Macbeth was truly a monster he would manifest no remorse nor troubling-like