How Does Macbeth Change Throughout The Play
How can one person go from being a very strong hero to an unstable, distrusted person in a short period of time? Some of us look at books or plays to determine, what is happening or if the author is extraordinary compared to others. Have you ever thought about looking at a specific character and pictured the change in them? In Macbeth many characters go through drastic changes, but there is one in particular that really stands out. This is the character of Macbeth. Macbeth goes through many changes in this play, including some that affect the outcome in the end. In the very beginning of the play we see Macbeth is a brave and successful warrior which is explained by the Captain to Duncan in (l, ii). He is quoted as hard working and trustworthy. We see this positive side in him until Lady Macbeth starts to talk to him about killing the king. He is then also corrupted by the witches’ prophecies. Macbeth has a weakness of letting others influence him on what he should do. Macbeth asks himself why he would do such a thing. The king has been so sympathetic to him so why would he kill him? Macbeth is motivated by Lady Macbeth’s words but he gets too caught up in them and starts heading down the bloody
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road. Blood starts to take over his mind as he pictures it never coming of his hands. His weakness over takes him. Macbeth has a conscience throughout the whole play, does this lead him astray? We can tell Macbeth has conscience throughout this play because of the hallucinations he starts to have after killing Duncan.
After the murder of Duncan Macbeth becomes annoyed and his first step of killing the guards is one of many that Macbeth takes to remove his insecurities. What does Macbeth feel after the killing of Duncan? He is in fear and shock. In the beginning of (ll, iii) Macbeth can barely even form sentences, the words he says reveal his guilt of his act. He then goes on to murder Banquo in (lll, IV). This was a very important part of the play because Banquo was his best friend. He has gone out of control and has not been speaking to Lady Macbeth about his decisions. Not speaking to Lady Macbeth has put a toll on their relationship and he is acting
alone. Towards the end of the play Lady Macbeth has died and he starts to realize the battle is not far away. Just now he starts to wish for a normal life but realizes he has denied himself. The prophecy of Birnam wood coming to fight has become real. He rejects this idea and fights until he realizes that Macduff wasn't born in a natural birth but instead was "Untimely ripped" from his mother's womb (V, viii, 14-16). When Macbeth hears about this he perceives what he has done and realizes he has been tricked by the witches. Macbeth registers that this is useless and only fights to be murdered. Throughout the play we see the character of Macbeth change not from just the way he thinks, but from the actions he takes in the play. From killing Banquo, to then having Lady Macduff and her children murdered, shows how insecure Macbeth really was inside. He may have been strong on the outside, while he also showed a lot of weakness on the inside. In the end you could call Macbeth and his wife "a dead butcher and his fiend like queen”, given that we can’t forget that at the beginning of the play Macbeth and his wife were ordinary nobles at the time.
road. Blood starts to take over his mind as he pictures it never coming of his hands. His weakness over takes him. Macbeth has a conscience throughout the whole play, does this lead him astray? We can tell Macbeth has conscience throughout this play because of the hallucinations he starts to have after killing Duncan.
After the murder of Duncan Macbeth becomes annoyed and his first step of killing the guards is one of many that Macbeth takes to remove his insecurities. What does Macbeth feel after the killing of Duncan? He is in fear and shock. In the beginning of (ll, iii) Macbeth can barely even form sentences, the words he says reveal his guilt of his act. He then goes on to murder Banquo in (lll, IV). This was a very important part of the play because Banquo was his best friend. He has gone out of control and has not been speaking to Lady Macbeth about his decisions. Not speaking to Lady Macbeth has put a toll on their relationship and he is acting
alone. Towards the end of the play Lady Macbeth has died and he starts to realize the battle is not far away. Just now he starts to wish for a normal life but realizes he has denied himself. The prophecy of Birnam wood coming to fight has become real. He rejects this idea and fights until he realizes that Macduff wasn't born in a natural birth but instead was "Untimely ripped" from his mother's womb (V, viii, 14-16). When Macbeth hears about this he perceives what he has done and realizes he has been tricked by the witches. Macbeth registers that this is useless and only fights to be murdered. Throughout the play we see the character of Macbeth change not from just the way he thinks, but from the actions he takes in the play. From killing Banquo, to then having Lady Macduff and her children murdered, shows how insecure Macbeth really was inside. He may have been strong on the outside, while he also showed a lot of weakness on the inside. In the end you could call Macbeth and his wife "a dead butcher and his fiend like queen”, given that we can’t forget that at the beginning of the play Macbeth and his wife were ordinary nobles at the time.