Macbeth, the protagonist of the play "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare, is a dynamic character. He changed from an admired, loyal, courageous, loved man in the beginning to a tragic, jealous, selfish character in the end. Macbeth is both good and evil, even though he often chose evil over good.
             Macbeth was a good character before he listened to the witches. He had a strong personality, and he was a very noble warrior who had lots of physical courage for he had won the battle in the beginning, "So foul and fair a day I have not seen." 1. He was admired by all of Scotland and was a very popular leader because he fought for his country, "Those he commands move only in command, nothing in love" 2. He always knew what was right, but because he was an ambitious man he sometimes did the wrong thing. MacBeth was also a sensitive man because he felt loyalty to the king, and felt that the king had done lots for him, and killing the ruler would make him feel afraid and guilty. When Macbeth killed the king, evil struck upon him.
             Macbeth's evil came from his ambition to become king. He slowly became evil as he got to know the witches more and more, he believed the witches when they said he would become king, even though he knew they were evil and no good,
             Cannot be ill, can not be good; if ill,
             Why hath it given me earnest of success" 3
             He was a superstitious man, he would believe anything or do anything to get what he wanted, even kill, "I have done the deed. Didst thou not here a noise?" 4. Macbeth's mind was not stable any more because of the hallucinations.
             The key to Macbeth was his imagination. After he had killed Duncan Macbeth went to phscological hell, he saw everything from apparitions to ghostly daggers, "Is this a dagger which I see before me" 5. Macbeth went to the witches to get his future told, and there the apparitions appeared,
             "Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn
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