Macbeth’s main enemy was the desire and power that overshadowed the power he had. L.C. Knights stated, “Macbeth had betrayed himself to the equivocal and the illusory. So too time appears to him as meaningless repetition because he has turned his back on, has indeed attempted violence on, those values that alone give significance to duration, that in a certain sense make to me, for ‘without the meaning there is no time.’” Macbeth’s greediness to attain more power once he got to a level of supremacy, resulted in Macbeth to repeatedly act on impulse to order the killing of those who he saw as a “threat.” Macbeth was willing to go as far as he could to try to control his destiny to stay in power. Macbeth didn’t want to lose the power that he had;
