Character Analysis Essay
Everyone who is mortal has at least one flaw. After a while though, a person's flaws come back to haunt them. In the tragic drama Macbeth, written by William Shakespear in 1606 during the English Renaissance, the hero, Macbeth, constantly declines in his level of mortality until his death. Macbeth's three flaws that contribute greatly to his degeneration are the prophecies which were told to him by the Weird sisters, Lady Macbeth and how she manipulated and influenced Macbeth's judgement, and finally his long time ambition which drove his desire to be king. The prophecies which were told by the Weird sisters were on of the factors which contributed the most to Macbeth's degeneration. If Macbeth had not asked the witches to speak he would not know what the future had in store for him. He would still be his ordinary self not a man who has thoughts of murder and actions to follow. Macbeth: Speak, if you can: What are you? 1st witch: All hail! Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis! 2nd witch: All hail! Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Cawdor! 3rd witch: All hail, Macbeth! That shalt be king hereafter. (I, iii, 47-50). As a result of the prophecies, this aroused Macbeths curiosity of how he could be King of Scotland.
Macbeth: Tell me, thou unknown power-1st witch: He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought. Within this hour at most I will advise you where to plant yourselves; Acquaint you with the perfect spy o' the time, The moment on't; for't must be done to-night, And something from the palace; always thought That I require a clearness: and with him-- To leave no rubs nor botches in the work-- Fleance his son, that keeps him company, Whose absence is no less material to me Than is his father's, must embrace the fate Of that dark hour. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. Lady Macbeth: Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely? From this time Such I account thy love. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal; For it must seem their guilt. Macbeth: I have almost forgot the taste of fears; The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts Cannot once start me. But one word more -1st witch: He will not be commanded: here's another, more potent than the first. What is this,That rises like the issue of a king,And wears upon his baby-brow the roundAnd top of sovereignty?All: Listen, but speak not to't3rd Apparition: Be loin-mettled, proud, and take no care Who cafes, who frets, or where conspires are: Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Brinam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him. Lady Macbeth's influence comes into play because if it wasn't for her, his ambition wouldn't have been intensified enough to drive him to obtain and maintain his title of King of Scotland, even if it meant murdering. Macbeth's ambition influences the cause of his new character. Macbeth: Your spirits shine through you. Lady Macbeth's character in the beginning reveals that she is a lovable person, but that is soon changed when thoughts of Macbeth to be king soon entered her mind. Lady Macbeth: What beast was't, then, That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man.
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