Macbeth Motif Essay

Dreams to many of us are fantasies that we want to become reality. It is up to the individual to determine how far a person is willing to go turn that dream into reality. In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare writes about the act of dreaming and person’s thoughts as they sleep, as well as the ambitions and goals that a person has. Those dreams can sometimes even turn to nightmares, and bring out the negatives in the road to success.
People often in life have dreams, goals that they want to achieve, or places they want to go. Macbeth’s dream is to become king and prevent Banquo’s bloodline from entering the throne. Yet this dream has caused Macbeth to do some wicked things; it makes him question how far he is willing to go to reach his ultimate goal, and to fulfill his dream. Now with these horrible events that are happening, Macbeth has been inflicted with “terrible dreams”[III, 2], or nightmares, a kind of dream most of us hope not to have. In Macbeth's case, his nightmare is the window into his subconscious, and his guilt over what he had done. The times when Macbeth refers to dreams both have a negative connotation. This shows that dreaming, an act thought to be a light, fun thing to do has now turned dark and wicked. Also hinting to the fact that maybe Macbeth’s goal isn’t really all that nice and easy, in fact it could said that Macbeth's dream of being king has now become his worst nightmare. There is more than what meets the eye when it comes to Macbeth and his dreams; both his goals, and the thoughts running through his mind as he attempts to not lose anymore sleep over the things he’s done.
Banquo also brings up dreams as he discussed the witches and how they had entered his mind as he slept. Dreams are the difference between a person’s reality and fantasy, and what the weird sisters are sharing, which is a prophecy seems to Banquo to be more fantasy than reality. Yet he is becoming less skeptical because their fortunes “have show’d