Character Study On Macbeth.

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CHARACTER STUDY ON MACBETH

At the beginning of the play, Macbeth is described as a brave soldier. He is very moral, optimistic, humane and an ambitious person. He was devoted to lady Macbeth. He changes as the play progresses, he turns lonely and a despicable individual. Firstly there was a change in his morality. The evil inside him destroyed his principles and led him to the leading force behind a number of murders. His quest for power made his conscience begin to disappear.

Macbeth’s relationship with his wife changes as well. From a loving and trusting relationship to having an unstable one. He starts drifting apart from her and he also shows no signs of sorrow or tears when she died.

Macbeth’s conscience is very persuasive, he tells himself “ Duncan’s goodness and kindness is such that his killing would provoke a tremendous outcry”. But the witches and lady Macbeth have a greater impact of persuasion on him to kill king Duncan. The evil inside him is taking over the goodness in his heart. As Macbeth was ambitious and he was always wanted to be a king, he was more tempted to commit the crime. He listened to his heart and followed it. He was aware of the piece he was going to pay if anyone finds out that he murdered KING DUNCAN but he was willing to take that risk no matter what it takes.

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The dagger is the first of the several visions shown to Macbeth but he cannot tell whether they are real or imaginary. They are symbols of the power of evil spirits in his world and of the evil that is growing inside him or t could be the witches playing around with him. He is a man of action but he loses his sense about what’s right and wrong. His second vision is the ghost of Banquo, where he feels trapped, and confines as his great occasion, the banquet is ruined. Macbeth relentless rises to his power when he ...

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