Macbeth and his Tragedy
The tragedy of “Macbeth," by William Shakespeare, follows the fall of Macbeth from a man in a position of power with a contented life, to a man with nothing but “mouth honor” and a dammed soul. In this essay, I wish to show to what level Macbeth’s tragedy was his own carelessness.
It was all started with the statement “Fair is foul, and foul is fair.” (Act 1, Scene 1) made from the three witches. Momentarily the downfall of Macbeth begins early on in the play when he and Banquo (Macbeth’s best friend) meet the witches on the way back from the winning battle. They decide to listen to the witches, out of sheer curiosity. The three witches greet Macbeth as “Thane of Glamis”, the title he already holds, and begin to tell the two nobles of things to come, and prophesies that Macbeth will become Thane of Cawdor, and the King of Scotland. Macbeth was standing but the rage of fire was ignited in his heart. Macbeth gets crowned thane of Cawdor on the other hand he was thinking about witches and about what they said. Lady Macbeth had those evil eyes of a death god after reading the letter, which was from Macbeth explaining about the word with the witches. “Your face, my thane, is as a book where men, may read strange matters. To beguile the time, look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under ’t.” (Act 1, Scene 5) this was the welcome from Lady Macbeth to his beloved husband Macbeth. Lady Macbeth’s first impression was little shaded.
The murder was planned with the joy for becoming the new king and queen. Macbeth was just not satisfied with doing all this for Banquo’s son, “Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, and put a barren sceptre in my gripe, thence to be wrench’d with an unlineal hand, no son of mine succeeding.” (Act 3, Scene 1) It was not late enough to kill Banquo...