How Macbeth Changes Throughout The Play

The play Macbeth was written by William Shakespeare, who was a playwright, between 1603 and 1606. It is a tragedy, which represents the psychological issues of people with political ambition and the results of those who seek power for their own sake. The Shakespearean tragedy is actual in modern days as well. This is the reason of its high popularity.
The main character, Macbeth, who is a brave general once receives a prophecy. Hence, the seed of his ambition of becoming a king grows into a big tree, which he is not able to carry anymore. Therefore, blinded by his desire of having power in his hands, he decides to do unbelievable things, such killing the king, who was also his uncle, murdering his best friend, and causing death to many other
At the beginning of the play, Macbeth is a respected Thane who has shown great loyalty to King Duncan. Soon after, Macbeth followed by his ambition and encouraged by a prophecy and Lady Macbeth, murders King Duncan to take his throne, demonstrating to have a corrupted character. Moreover, Macbeth kills his close people in order to fix his high position. As one betrayal leads to another one, Macbeth had a state of guilt and fear, which made him murder again and again.
Macbeth’s wife was the one watering the seed of ambition in Macbeth and convincing him to commit such horrible crimes. However, provided people seek their ambition to satisfy themselves by interfering others, they never succeeded in getting what they originally wanted. Lady Macbeth is one of those examples. Craving to become a queen, she was blinded by the idea of the total power and, as a result, failed to have a feeling of joy even in the position of the queen. Firstly, after killing the king Lady Macbeth says “a little water clears us of this deed”, which represents that she did not feel sorry for what she had done. No water is able to wash off committed crimes from one’s hands. She was also the one to lose her mind because of the destroying guilt and responsibility she felt. Finally, Lady Macbeth starts sleepwalking and talking in her sleep.
Therefore, Macbeth received the death penalty. By reason of his life situation, Macbeth says: “Life is a short story told by an idiot, full of noise and emotional disturbance but devoid of meaning”, which means his opinion about life is that it is an empty, meaningless, worthless story. On the other hand, Macbeth’s and his wife’s life is ironic, as even after achieving their ambition, they did not live a joyful life having the absolute power. Fears, doubts, and guilt killed Lady Macbeth and the main character himself. In the end of the story, fortunately, Macbeth gets punished for all his crimes he