What Are The Factors That Influence Decision Making In Macbeth

Every day, people are inundated with decisions, big and small. Understanding how people arrive at their choices is an area of cognitive psychology that has received attention. Theories have been generated to explain how people make decisions, and what types of factors influence decision making in the present and future.( What Influences Your Decision ?) People’s decisions are affected by many things, such as, habits, experience, values, information, superstitions, other people, etc. Throughout the story we see Macbeth do everything he can to become king, but what encouraged him and motivated him to plot his evil act? The three factors that propelled Macbeth to become king was his wife, the three witches , and his ambition. First of all, Macbeth is mostly pressured by his insisting wife to kill Duncan so that he himself may get the position of the king . At the beginning of the play, Macbeth treats Lady Macbeth as an equal, if not more dominant partner. In fact, when Macbeth wavers and has second thoughts about killing Duncan, his ambitious wife urges him on by attacking his masculinity (Shmoop Editorial Team. (2008, November 11) Macbeth in Macbeth). Although Macbeth never realizes it , Lady Macbeth constantly used his masculinity to control him. She insisted that her husband was acting like an impotent "coward". In order to prove …show more content…
After Macbeth grows more sinful and overpowered with greed, he does not make any real attempt to change, and his conscious is bothered by this. Slowly Macbeth loses grasp of his sanity and self-control. Being consumed with power, Macbeth lets nothing stand in the way of his reign, because his reign is all that he has left now. Even without his wife to push him to act against to gain the throne, he continues in his own ambition. He no longer needs his wife, but is comforted by the words of the three witches, that none of women born will be able to defeat