The Theme Of Macbeth

Macbeth is a dark play and its central characters are evil. The theme of Macbeth centers on how ambition and greed can over power morality and overrun human nature.
Three witches meet in a heath. They plan when and where they would meet Macbeth to give him a prophecy. On the way back from battle, Macbeth and Banquo go to heath to meet up with the three witches. The prophecies say that Macbeth will be future king. But, they tell Banquo that he is ‘lesser than Macbeth, but also greater.’ Lady Macbeth gets the servants drunk so that they would fall asleep. Then, Macbeth murders his king while Duncan is asleep. Lady Macbeth tries to frame the servants. Macbeth feels guilty. Lady Macbeth receives a letter from her husband that tells her the news and she feels that killing Duncan will make her husband the rightful king. She convinces Macbeth to kill Duncan. After Duncan was found dead Macbeth was made king. After that Macduff flees to try to plan to kill Macbeth. Macbeth goes and talks to the three witches again and they give him three more prophecies. Which were 1. Beware Macduff. 2. Nobody born from a woman will ever harm Macbeth. And 3. Macbeth will never be defeated. Knowing that no one can harm him Macbeth asks the soldiers battling in his castle who wasn’t born from a woman. Macduff answers that he wasn’t and they start to
fight and Macduff kills Macbeth. Lastly, Duncan’s son Malcolm becomes King of Scotland. Macbeth had deep desire to have power. He wasn’t naturally inclined to commit evil but because he went to the witches and heard their prophecies he convinced himself to commit evil. He decided to use violence to get the power he wanted. He wanted to be entitled and in charge. One aspect from the story that demonstrates this is when Macbeth kills Duncan. He killed Duncan against his better judgment and then he felt guilty after. The reason Macbeth even killed Duncan was because lady Macbeth belittles him for not being able to murder she threatened to take her love away from him. Also, the witches told him he will become king. But Duncan, was already king so he was in the way. Macbeth took matters into his own hands and killed him so that he would become king. This is exactly how ambition and greed can over power morality and overrun human nature. A second aspect form the story that demonstrates the theme is when Macbeth went to the witches in the first place.
By him going to the witches it inclined him to do evil things. If he would have never gone to the witches and had those prophecies told things would have turned out differently. Even if Macbeth still went to the witches and they told him the prophecies he could have chosen not to act on evil things. He could have let it play out instead of killing people to get what he wanted. Because of his selfish desires on wanting to be entitled and have power people died when they didn’t have to. In the end Macbeth ended up getting
killed. The main points made here is that Macbeth was a selfish person who let violence get the best of him. He also let people manipulate him. Once you start committing evil things it’s hard to stop. When you in a situation where you want something for yourself you have to think is it worth losing everything even your life? Ambition and greed can over power morality and overrun human nature.