Earthly Riches In Macbeth

We have seen how he started off as a noble, brave servant to his king; to a violent, vicious person trying to gain earthly riches. Particularly, as I look at the character traits of Macbeth and the internal struggle he had between immorality and earthly riches; I couldn’t help but to compare his situation to any of us today. We as Christian have many internal battles; whether they are between our earthly possessions and Christ or our own immorality and earthly riches. We can all relate to Macbeth in some way. As I read the play, I learned that earthly riches is not worth my soul. We can reflect throughout the play how Macbeth choose earthly riches over his immorality. At the time, it might seemed like an acceptable choice but Macbeth did not consider what will happen to him at the end. Towards the end of the story, Macbeth did accumulate everything he wanted, in result of that he had no one to share it with. A valuable lesson learned here is every wrong choice comes with a consequence. In conclusion, the prophecies the trio witches proclaimed to Macbeth came true and animated his curiosity about how he can reign over Scotland. Also, the influences from his wife, Lady Macbeth degrades his character as well. Therefore, Macbeth is an example of a tragic hero who in the end, ended up very unhappy with the decisions he