Nature Of Evil In Macbeth

Ryan Moran Mr. Ferguson English Honors 10 6/14/2023 Humans are natural born killers. The stories Lord of the Flies and Macbeth have characters that set a perfect example of this. They started out good, heroic even. But spiraled into evilness as the story went on. Although some might claim human nature is good, examples from Lord of the Flies and Macbeth support scientists’ claims that human beings are naturally evil.

Imagine you are a young child again--let’s say 10 years-old--binge watching Scooby Doo on television all summer. Within every episode of Scooby Doo, The Mystery Gang reveals the villain running the diabolical crimes, at the end, and it becomes an archetype of these villains to be under a facade as someone sympathetic or innocent--making you least expect it. Towards the end of Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, the Macbeth’s unstable mental states drives them to have various people murdered and even after obtaining the throne, they struggles to cope with their individual guilt. However, before Macbeth’s rise as king, he does not possess such vile motives yet gradually he and his wife’s greed for the title of kings and queens led them to

Kaila Hyder Williamson British Lit 05 October 2016 Macbeth Macbeth is most reliable for his own destruction and evil, but other characters played a big part in his reasoning behind the crimes he committed. The Three Witches gave Macbeth a idea of how to follow and obtain the goal the he had been wanting for a long time, to be king. His wife, Lady Macbeth, was a huge influence to commit the crimes he committed. She manipulated Macbeth in many ways.

Macbeth is a evil psycho tyrant who abuses power that is given to him. But Macbeth have not always been that way. Did you know Macbeth was a war hero? Macbeth was a ambition man,yes ambition means good but it also can be bad. These are the events that drove Macbeth to an insane man.

Lady Macbeth plans to invite king Duncan over for dinner, but really she is convincing Macbeth to murder him. She influences him to kill Duncan because he is the only one standing in the way of Macbeth becoming king. Lady Macbeth plans the killing but convinces Macbeth to do the dirty deed. Lastly, Lady Macbeth is one of the causes of Macbeth’s failure because she repeatedly questions Macbeth’s manhood until she persuades him to make a bad choice. “When you durst do it then you were a man” (1.7.53-58).

Lady Macbeth shows no compation and is cold hearted towards the situation. Although Lady Macbeth is the one who wanted Macbeth to kill Duncan. She gets mad and irriatted because her husband didn’t leave the daggers were the planned to put them. Lady Macbeth goes and does it, because Macbeth is too shaken up and scared. Macbeth must have a

I present a case where Macbeth committed murder with his greed being his main motivator. This cold-blooded murder was not one done without a conscious. No, Macbeth was completely aware of what killing King Duncan could bring him: power. Although Macbeth’s actions were based off another’s plan, we will see that Macbeth killed with a conscious, making him solely guilty for the murder of King Duncan due to Macbeth’s prevalent characteristics of being power-hungry, deceitful, and greedy. As was said, Macbeth’s actions were not based off of his own plan.

Macbeth is More Responsible In Shakespeare’s play “Macbeth” Macbeth is seen to be as the one responsible for King Duncan’s murder, as Macbeth’s hands were the ones that actually killed King Duncan. However, while Macbeth may be thought of as ultimately responsible for his actions, but there are other influences that actually show on a closer inspection of the text, the three main influences to his decision are Lady Macbeth, himself, and the witches. This is (in my opinion) convincing evidence that Macbeth is completely responsible for the murder of King Duncan.

The witches are clearly the true villains, for they caused the downfall of Macbeth by telling him his future. Macbeth was manipulated into the killings and the people who manipulated him are the witches. The witches told macbeth that he will be king, so he later murdered Duncan to claim the throne for himself. The witches then told Macbeth and Banquo, “Your descendants will be kings, even though you will not be one.”(1.1.51)

However, some may say that Lady Macbeth is the culprit to Macbeth's descent to evil. Lady Macbeth is the one who convinced Macbeth to kill king duncan instead of waiting for the power of becoming king she wanted him to take it. Also, Macbeth never would have killed all the innocent people he did if he hadn't started with duncan. After killing King duncan Macbeth became paranoid which lead to the killing of banquo, his closest friend. If lady macbeth never convinced him to kill King Duncan nobody else would have died.

Most witches we know are evil and wicked, so do the witches in Macbeth. They show up and tell Macbeth and Banquo a prophecy that relate to being the King, which is one of the reason that Macbeth killed Duncan, Banquo, and many others. When Macbeth is worried about Macduff and Malcolm are coming back to fight him, he goes to the witches and asked for help. Of course the witches “help” him by telling him to beware of Macduff, man born of women can hurt him, and as long as the forest didn’t move to his castle. But witches never tell the whole story, they only tell part of it, which gives Macbeth a false sense of security and finally meet his death.

Macbeth committed murder to King Duncan for his love of his wife. Lady Macbeth wanted her husband Macbeth to commit murder for her own evil ambitions. She wanted her husband, Macbeth to kill Duncan so Macbeth will become king of Scotland and she will become queen (Act 1, Scene 6, Lines 16-31) She manipulates her husband into killing King Duncan by calling her husband a coward .(Act 1,Scene 5, Lines 44-50)

William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, the main character; Macbeth, is seen as an evil character. The play is based off of Macbeth’s decisions and his actions to become King. In the beginning Macbeth starts out as a hero in Scotland’s war with Ireland and towards the end he is transformed into a murderer. Macbeth is not wholly evil because of is heroism in the war, his love for Scotland, and because he didn’t want to kill King Duncan initially. Macbeth was brain washed by his wife and tricked into killing the King.

What causes a person to look away from the consequences before committing any action? Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, examines a character who struggles due to his actions which results in pain for him. The audience starts to feel sympathy for Macbeth, even with the evil actions that Macbeth carries throughout the play. These evil actions occur due to the witches heavily influencing Macbeth to become the king and due to Lady Macbeth’s impact oh his decisions.

Ah, how long ago that time seems to be, but yet it happened all so fast at the same time. I had started out as a hero! I killed the now deceased Thane of Cawdor, and succeeded him. I was celebrated and everyone loved me, the righteous hero that fought to thwart evil.. but when did I become the evil?