Essay On Macbeth's Descent Into Evil

Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” is a tragedy that begins with a hero who transforms into a immoral King. Macbeth’s descent into evil was influenced by the witches, Lady Macbeth, and the maintenance of the throne. After Macbeth regains the throne, his next task is protecting it. Maintaining the throne calls for more lives to be lost. With each murder Macbeth’s guilt is weakened as his evil nature infected nature itself. Each murder takes away more of the meaning behind life for Macbeth. Macbeth no longer feels anything towards human life by the time he has become fully evil. The witches convince Macbeth that they can see the future of the kingdom by proclaiming Macbeth as “the Thane of Cawdor”. This information was already known by the King who
He looks at his hands covered in blood and says, “What hands are here!”, which is shows how he cant believe that his own hands commited such a crime. Macbeth’s guilt overwhelms him and he feels that he would taint “Neptune’s ocean (if he was to) wash this blood clean” by making the “seas incardine, making the green one red.” Macbeth is aware of the crimes he is commiting against nature by murdering his King. Nature is chaotic after macbeth’s first murder when horses break free from their stables and go against their very nature by killing and eating each other. When Macbeth needed to maintain the throne he targeted his best friend Banqou because he threatened its security when the witches’ predicted Banqou’s children becoming the hier to the throne. Macbeth doesn’t hesitate when he plots how to commit his second murder. Macbeth arranges murderers to kill Banqou and his son. Macbeth’s guilt takes the form of a hallucination of the ghoust of Banqou after it is confirmed that he had been killed. At this point Macbeth’s guilt is becoming less intense and he no longer hesitates when protecting the throne which shows how Macbeth’s nature is becoming more