Peace Of Mind In Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'

Macbeth has a high social ranking in Scotland as he’s a noble kinsmen and is known well by everyone. With respect from his peers, he leads a wealthy life with peace of mind. However, his lust for ambition and self-validation of his foretold prophecies exposes him to his deceiving future and as he plots his plan of murderous deeds, he finds himself falling into a state of poverty, from which he acknowledges how he got what he wanted, but has anyone or anything left to love.
Macbeth goes back and forth deciding if he should kill Duncan, and Lady Macbeth shares the same murderous thoughts as him. Macbeth has a sense of humanity where he changes his mind and doesn’t want to murder Duncan, but his wife is not pleased and gave him an ultimatum of
killing the king, or not being man enough. So, he’s already being pressured to kill the king because of his wife and the pressure of the planning of the murder itself. When night fell Macbeth couldn’t even commit the whole murder and Lady Macbeth had to step in. After they inherited the throne, little remorse was shown, however Macbeth’s murderous thoughts grew stronger.

Soon after evaluating the witches prophecies, he planned to murder Banquo. Now since Macbeth could barely go through murdering Duncan, he hired 3 assassins to do the job on the night of the feast. The assassin came back to the feast and told Macbeth the murder was complete. This is when Macbeth started to develop guilty feeling, after all, Banquo was his good friend and there was no bad blood between them. He began to see the ghost of Banquo appear in his chair and he became hysterical.
Macbeth even starts to blame other people saying, “Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake thy gory locks at me.” At this point Macbeth has become crazy, maybe he never got over the murder and he fears people are suspecting he did it, or the fact that the bloody assassin told him that he had killed his loyal friend. Either way Macbeth continues on his murderous quest.

It’s not until he’s about to be murdered by a walking forest that he feels lonely. He’s been planning to murder everyone that might take his crown, so he let his paranoia get the best of him. Which leads us to Macbeth’s insane superstition. This all started out with the three witches telling Macbeth how one day he would be king and so would Banquo’s son. This causing Macbeth to really think about being king and wanting to murder anyone to do so. Yet, after Macbeth became king and murdered everyone, he wasn’t satisfied. He needed to go back to the witches to tell him more about his future. He’s become so obsessed with what they were telling him, it’s all he had faith in. Thus causing him to believe he would be safe and no one would harm him.
Meanwhile Lady Macbeth is by herself a lot because of Macbeth’s absence and has nightmares about the murder.
She sleep talks about the murders and wanting to constantly wash her hands because of the blood. The doctor consults Macbeth about it, but he just wants her cured and doesn’t acknowledge it. Because the doctor can’t do anything about Lady Macbeth’s mental illness, she becomes more depressed and eventually kills herself. During the forest’s attack, Macbeth tries to gear up for war and has a moment as if he was talking to Satan the devil, “Seyton!—I am sick at heart, when I behold—Seyton, I say!—This push will cheer me ever, or disseat me now. I have lived long enough: my way of life is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf; and that which should accompany old age, as honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,I must not look to have; but, in their stead, curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. Seyton!” Macbeth wishes for love and friends and doesn’t want the life of isolation he has because of his ambition and greed. As Macbeth’s had a partnership with his wife in the beginning, but then Macbeth just started doing things on his own/ behind her back. He was in poverty when he was all alone in his castle wishing for the “curses” to be gone, when he caused it on his
own.
As little girl, growing up with a big sister and two parents I felt isolated. The age difference between my sister and I caused us to grow apart. I constantly wanted her attention and to play Barbies with her, but she always had homework, friends, or boyfriends. But, besides not having a close friend I still shared some things with her. Like when she’d comfort me while our parents were fighting in the kitchen. After all the screaming, and my mother was putting me to bed, I asked her if her and my dad would ever get a divorce. She made soft promises to me and kissed me goodnight. Soon after they had gotten divorced, but I still saw my dad often. My family was broken, and I was only nine. I no longer heard fighting, but I no longer had married parents. I would never get to experience that. As years went by my sister got older, got a job, goes to school, still has a boyfriend and rarely has any more time for me then she did before. I still see my dad and talk with him, and mom will always be my favorite. I’m very happy with my life, but sometimes I feel distant or abandoned. My poverty has impacted me because I