How Does Macbeth Change Throughout The Play

Throughout the opening of the play, Macbeth changes his personality consistently, giving readers to interpret him as a mixed character with no real development. Macbeth throughout the story shows his ambition to be king. During Act 1 Scene 3, the witches grant a prophecy to him and Banquo. However, Macbeth is not satisfied and is still hungry for more power. In Act 1 Scene 5 it is said “Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it.”

The destination that he was led to was nothing but a dead end. All of his desire and hunger has brought him to this destructive ending and he feels as if nothing was worth it, not even sad about his wife’s death. To end with, Macbeth’s overambitious and unchecked actions have reached full-circle and finally brought him

Macbeth recognizes the rapid and drastic downfall of his life and by making the comparison to a poor player that is no longer heard from, he thinks that life is meaningless and lacks purpose. Understanding how his deception leads to destruction, his perspective on life shifts to a cynical view. His existence is merely a performance and his inability to continue the honorable act illustrates Macbeth’s undoing of his former nobility. As his destructive nature changes his attitude, his carelessness will continue to spike as he reaches the end of his life. Shakespeare uses Macbeth to give attention to the reckless attitude that results from allowing deception to

Macbeth’s actions had taken his soul’s sense of innocence and driven him down a path he couldn’t return from. He let his mind carry him through to his death, going with the flow of life, robbing him of the fate he once

He conveys that life is meaningless, “It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” (Shakespeare 63) At this point in the story, Macbeth has realized that the prophecies have ruined his life and if he hadn’t committed the murders, his wife would not have died. His negative attitude is also evidenced by his consistent belief that everyone was threatening his power. This perception is what led him to seek revenge on so many people in his life.

His greed brings temporal joy, but later causes social and mental insanity. Although the fictional tragedy portrays a practical lesson for one’s character, it also has a spiritual application. He is merely an ordinary man, a respected general of King Duncan’s army. Macbeth is living a pleasant life, "For brave Macbeth — well he deserves that name” (Act I Scene II), until three witches prophesy of a greater future. Although he believes it is an impossible fate, Macbeth allows the prophecies to linger in his thoughts.

He acknowledges the hollowness of his existence, admitting that life has lost its meaning. Through his lines, "I have lived long enough. My way of life / Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf" Macbeth conveys the sense of disillusionment and weariness that accompanies the collapse of his power. His "vaulting ambition" has proven to be his undoing, leading him to a state of hopelessness and

Macbeth Final Essay Macbeth has taken his actions too far. The play “Macbeth,” written by William Shakespeare is about a tragedy that comes to life. The drama deals with murder and madness of kingship and revenge. Over the course of the play, we see Shakespeare develop the character Macbeth in several ways: through personality, their interactions with other characters, and in the way their actions drive the plot.

He realizes that at the end of everything that he has done to obtain the throne and to keep it, means nothing because he is going to die, as he has made to many enemies and he has no heir. Children will also play a part in “Play it as it Lays” when Maria, who’s inability to raise one child, and abortion of the second will drive her further down an already nihilistic path that results in her own psychiatric commitment. So in the end for Macbeth it was all pointless. He goes on to say that life has no meaning, that it is just an inconsequential story full of random events that have no purpose, but the moment that an event is occurring it becomes the most important thing that there is in

Macbeth anagnorisis( when main character discovers true nature of his situation) when his wife's death his realize that thing don’t last long. “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow./the days creep slowly along until the end of the time”.(5,5,20). With this phrase Macbeth is saying that life is meaningless, useless, and empty with lady Macbeth death he feel empty which lead to his own death. Macbeth learn that witches use double speech on him. “The evil spirit you serve can tell you that I was not born./they cut me out of my mother’s womb before she could bear me naturally”.(5,8,14-15).

Macbeth’s ambition is one of the most prominent things that drive Macbeth in the play and truly becomes evident when he hears of the Witches prophecies. When the witches stop talking, he demands to know more. “Stay you imperfect speakers, tell me more” (I, III, 73-74). This portrays his excessive curiosity on the subject as well as his craving for more desirable prophecies. This ambitious nature and craving for power is also demonstrated only moments after hearing the witches, when he starts formulating a plan to kill Duncan in order to make the third prophecy come true.

He realizes he has “fallen from grace”, the world would be against him since he had destroyed the Elizabethan order. He does not see any meaning in life and therefore detaching himself from his emotions to turn himself into a vicious murderer. Macbeth’s despair over the loss of meaning in his life is reinforced in his Act 5 Scene 5 soliloquy, where he says life “is a tale/ Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury/ Signifying nothing” (Act 5 Scene 5 lines 25-27). Macbeth comes to a point of realization that all his efforts to gain the throne are like the “sound and fury” of the tale, just acts crafted for the sake of the show without any actual outcome in the end. In exchange for kingship, he loses his “milk of human kindness” and his wife.

“The castle of Macduff I will surprise, Seize upon Fife, give to th' edge o' th' sword. His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls that trace him in his line.” He shows how all honor and integrity is gone, and he has set aside morals to achieve his own means. Macbeth can no longer be viewed as a man, but as a cold-hearted, immoral

Thus he lashes out at everyone, alienates his wife, loses her to her madness and despair and ultimately finds himself utterly alone having lost everything yet he is unable or unwilling to surrender or admit defeat and so instead he fights to the bitter end.” (Evelyn O’Connor, Macbeth’s Soliloquies). The tragic hero’s hardship is not always wholly deserved. The punishment does often exceed the crime. Some argue that Macbeth does not entirely deserve to die as a result of his actions.

After hearing of Macbeth’s prophecies and murdering the king, Macbeth believes that “to be thus is nothing, but to be safelty thus”. This reinforces how murdering the king has not brought him piece, but rather ambition, anxiety and paranoia, setting him off to commit more “deeds”. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are “young indeed” signifying that they are just beginners in heinous deeds and must continue. Shakespeare informs and audience how with the spur of Macbeth’s ambition are (is) manipulating his thoughts and causing him to commit more deeds to get ahead. Macbeth knows the power and position he will gain, encouraging him to keep going, which eventually leads to Macduff killing him.