Macbeth Who Is Actually In Control Analysis

Who is Actually in Control?
“Willpower is what researchers call[...][the ability to] control thoughts, emotions and feelings, restrain impulses, and perform tasks and duties” (Baumeister 1), an individual’s willpower against others can dictate the amount of success an individual procures during their life. Through the choices they make, the people they befriend, and the situations they position themselves in. In The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, the ambitious Macbeth battles manipulative powers, and tests the limits of his will through, his wife, Lady Macbeth, the three witches, and his greed. These characters and events all force Macbeth to make decisions that slowly transform him from his respectable and honorable persona, in the early scenes of Shakespeare’s play, to a tyrannical and murderous king, in the final scenes of the play.
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For example, after Lady Macbeth manipulates him, he wants to kill King Duncan, he experiences the stoppage of prayer, hallucinations, and lack of sleep. Macbeth does not realize that his wife, the weird sisters, or even his own evil ambition are controlling him, and because he cannot regain self-control, he completely loses his willpower by the end of the play. Macbeth first struggles with the fact that he has to go against what is morally right to fulfill his desires, like the children in Baumeister’s studies who struggle with the fact that they can not eat the treat until the fifteen minutes end. Most of the children do not give in to the temptation of the treat but instead physically hold themselves back in some way, but in Macbeth’s case he is not able to physically hold himself back from the throne’s temptation, and as a result, succumbs to the temptation and manipulation that Lady Macbeth, the Three Witches, and his own greed place onto