Macbeth
"Macbeth is a man born to leadership but unfortunately influenced and destroyed by evil forces". Discuss Macbeth, one of Shakespeare's timeless classics and most famous tragedies is the story of a virtuous man, corrupted by power and greed. Macbeth is the tragic hero who is led down an unescapable road of doom by outside forces. In this case there are several influences or forces including his own wife, Lady Macbeth, the three witches, and his conscience, which continually eat at him, portraying illusions and performing mind games which send him to the point of insanity. He had no choice but to follow his wife's wishes, the word of the witches and his curiosity, which in turn play on his guilty conscience. Macbeth is a tragic tale of the corruption and downfall of a leader, whose thirst for greed and power, as well as assistance from outside influences, cause his world to come tumbling down around him. Macbeth was a man born to leadership. At the beginning of the play, Macbeth had everything he could want. He had a noble and very honourable position, and this was further promoted with the reward of his new rank as the Thane of Cawdor. He also had the recognition from King Duncan as being a brave and heroic soldier, address
In order for Macbeth to safeguard his existence as King, he had to kill or destroy any single threats that stood between him and his success as a leader. When Macbeth's hunger to retain the crown, as well as other outside influences on his life start taking effect, his dreams and aspirations of being King and successfully ruling are destroyed, causing his whole life comes tumbling down around him. The fatal combination of the three forces produced the tragic result, and brings Shakespeare's masterpiece to a conclusion. Initially, his first obstacle was killing Duncan, to acquire the crown, which with the assistance of his faithful wife's premeditation and planning, his dream became a reality, hence fulfilling the second prophecy. Macbeth had the full support of his faithful wife, Lady Macbeth, who was encouraging of his every move and supported his actions. Macbeth is startled by their prophecies, and he has no knowledge at this point that he is going to be made Thane of Cawdor, or even more so, that he might become King. In this way, Macbeth would have stopped at nothing to get what he wanted, and this was obvious through his actions. Macbeth's own ambition acts as the deciding power in bringing him to his downfall. But from this moment onwards, Macbeth's sanity begins to disintegrate, and he goes mad, seeing visions of dead people, and objects, and hearing voices, which lead him to insanity. However, Macbeth was never entirely driven himself, instead influenced by evil forces. Three forces brought on Macbeth's downfall; one was his own inner ambition, the other was the external force of his wife's goal of seeing him become King, and the third was the supernatural forces of the witches. Macbeth is a brave and noble soldier, a true leader. "Is this a dagger, which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?" (Act II, Scene I, lines 41-42).
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