Macbeth Essay

Macbeth’s Greed Transformation If you could have ultimate power but you had to kill your kin to get the power would you do it? In Shakespeare's Macbeth in the main character Macbeth goes on a mental journey from not wanting anything more then as the play goes on Macbeth becomes avarice to become the crown. During that process Macbeth gradually starts as benevelont than becomes so greedy he is blinded by it. In the climax Macbeth will be struck with guilt led on by his greed. Later in the story he will not be able to know if he's doing something right or wrong. In Macbeth by Shakespeare Macbeth, the tragic hero, is sent into a state full of greed for the throne and in the end it the greed he posses will send him to his own demise. Throughout the exposition Macbeth commences to show a need for greed to gain power to be king. The first time that the tragic hero begins to have avarice is in scene three. This is the first scene where Macbeth enters the play and even though it is the first meeting with the reader it is able to be told that he is beginning to be a greedy man. It is able to be seen because when Macbeth and Banquo rush into the three witches all Macbeth does is demand to be told anything else about his future that they could know. In scene three Macbeth tells the witches, “Stay, you imperfect speakers. Tell me more./By Sinel’s death I know I am Thane of Glamis./But how of Cawdor/…Speak, I charge you” (1.3.73). This shows that he is already becoming covetousness because as soon as he finds out he has a chance to gain ultimate power he goes insane to get to the power he desires. Macbeth then comprehends at that time that he needed to do whatever is possible to soon be the King of Scotland. Even this early in the play the reader could see that Macbeth has not always had this inner greed, but now that he found that he can obtain power greed would consume him. Later in scene three Macbeth contemplates to himself if he should give into the avarice . Macbeth