“Macbeth shall never be vanquished be great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him,” this makes Macbeth feel invincible because he concludes that this is impossible. In conclusion, the apparitions make Macbeth feel indestructible, like he can take on anyone: “ I’ll fight, till my bones my flesh be hack’d. Give me my armour. (Act 5, Scene 3 line 32-33).
In my opinion I also think that Macbeth was a thoughtful man who only took action after he had though things through. I know this because of his long colourful speech he gave in act 1, scene 7, for example: “I have no spur/ To prick the sides of my intent, but only/ Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaops itself/ And falls on the’ other” (line 25-28). This quote says that he hasn’t got a good enough reason to murder king Duncan, only ambition. This shows that he is thinking it through instead of murdering the king and asking questions later. The main emotion that was acting on Macbeth was ambition, which is ironic because when he finally becomes king his ambition is not what he thought it would be like because he’s got to continue killing people to protect his people from the truth, who he’s neglecting: “If thou couldst, Doctor, cast / The water of my land, find her disease,/ And purge it to a sound and pristine health” (Act 5, Scene 3, line 50-53). This means that he wants the doctor to cure the lands illness but what’s really wrong with the land is Macbeth, he’s the wrong person to be king.
On the other hand Lady Macbeth was a sane person, who was very determined, like in the part where she forces Macbeth to murder Duncan in Act 1, Scene 7: “Was the hope drunk/ wherein you dress’d yourself? Hath it slept since? / And wakes it now, to look so green and pale/At what it did so freely?” (Line 35-38). I think Lady Macbeth wants him to go through with the murder because se loves him so passionately she knows how much it means to him, to become king. This all changes when she realises what she had committed herself to quite near to her death when she loses her mind: “Wash your, put on your night gown;/ look not so pale. –I tell you yet again, Banquo’s buried: he cannot come out on’s grave.” (Act 5, Scene 1, line 58-60). This is the part where her guilt has driven her to sleepwalk and is reliving the night of the murder of Duncan and understanding where Macbeth has gone and what he may have done.
You could say that Lady Macbeth was evil in the beginning, like in the part where she calls up darkness and evil spirits before the arrival of king Duncan and Banquo and the fact that she was being the innocent flower but being the serpent under it as she greeted the king in Act 1, Scene 7: “ All our service/ In every point twice done and then done double/ Were poor and single business to contend,” (line 17-20). In this scene Lady Macbeth seems very polite and charming on the outside, but I know she does not mean it. At the end when Lady Macbeth goes mad she is quite defenceless and unable to maintain her sanity due to the darkness that has engulfed her: “ Hell is murky. – Fie, my Lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? – What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to accompt?” (Act 5, scene 1 line 34-36). This quote sums up the darkness that troubles her unconscious mind, which makes her wish she hadn’t done what she did.
In my opinion Shakespeare has done a good job in changing the characters characteristics of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth towards the end of the play.
