The Power of Influences on Macbeth
The Power of Influences on Macbeth
The last person you would expect to encourage you to commit a crime would be your wife. Macbeth is motivated by his wife, three witches, and Macbeth's own ambition. Macbeth gradually becomes more ruthless, evil, and murderous as the play progresses. I am going to write about how Lady Macbeth, the witches, and Macbeth's own ambition caused him to kill all those innocent souls.
Lady Macbeth is first introduced in Act1 Scene 5. She influenced Macbeth in his murders more than anyone else. "....Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o' the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way...." Lady Macbeth uses the weaknesses of Macbeth to convince him to kill King Duncan. She challenged his manhood by saying, "....When you durst do it, then you were a man...." This made Macbeth consider his manhood and thus caused him to commit these haneous murders. "....Thou esteem'st the ornament of life and live a coward in thine own esteem...." Lady Macbeth tries to instigate him even more by calling him a coward. This made Macbeth very angry and fueled his fire even more to kill. Macbeth promised to kill Duncan he changes his mind. "....What beast was't, then that made break this enterprise to me...." This makes Macbeth think that he is doing all these things to become king for his wife, Lady Macbeth. As the play unfolds you realize that Macbeth is doing this for his wife as muchas he id doing it for himself.
In Macbeth the Witches are shown as being evil, conniving, and cruel. The Witches play a major role in convincing Macbeth to kill Duncan. They give Macbeth and Bonquo three prophecies: "...All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Cawdor....", "....All hail, Macbeth that shalt be king hereafter....", and "....All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis....". These prophecies made by the witches made Macbeth believe that he was going to become thane of Cawdor and thane of Glamis. Bonquo doesn't take these prophecies as seriously as Macbeth did. Macbeth becomes more dependent to the Witches, and in Act 4 scene 1 Macbeth returns to the weird sisters, demanding what the future would bring. The Witches gave him three prophecies: "....Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff, beware the thane of Fife....", "....none of woman born shall harm Macbeth....", and "....Macbeth shall...