How does Shakespeare make the audience feel about Macbeth?

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How does Shakespeare make the audience feel about Macbeth?

"Macbeth" is a tragic play in which Macbeth's ambition to be king becomes his tragic flaw, however with his high status people still respect him, this is why Macbeth is a tragic hero.

The play starts with thunder, lightning and the three witches. This leads you with no doubt about what the plot of the story is to involve the forces of good and evil. When the witches chant, "Fair is foul and foul is fair" you know that it is going to be difficult to tell the difference between good and evil. In the next scene King Duncan is being informed of what a good soldier Macbeth is, with phrases like, "O valiant cousin" and "Noble Macbeth".

Macbeth is a very violent person when he is on the battlefield as he has killed so many people that the skulls could form a mountain. During all of this praise for Macbeth, the audience is left wondering why three such evil people as the witches were plotting to meet Macbeth at the very beginning of the play.

The first words we hear from Macbeth are spoken in scene three, and just like King Duncan's are very significant, "So foul and fair a day" similar words to those of the witches in the first scene, again making you wonder about the connections between Macbeth and the Witches. Is Shakespeare suggesting that Macbeth and the Witches are similar in character as well as the way they talk? Or is there a possibility that the witches can control him in some way?

Although the witches tell Macbeth he is to become King, he is made to feel uneasy as they also tell Banquo that he will become father of Kings.

The first mention of murder is by Macbeth at the end of scene three, after receiving the title, Thane of Cawdor. At the moment Macbeth considers murder as
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"Fantastical" meaning that it only exists in his imagination. He has acknowledged that the notion of murder is there.

When Macbeth and Banquo arrive at King Duncan's court, Duncan tells Macbeth how he intends to reward him, but at the same time the audience remembers the witches' saying that Macbeth will become King.

When Macbeth hears that Duncan's son Malcolm will be king, he is surprised and admits he has "Black and deep desires" and calls upon the stars not to shine their light on his thoughts. When it is announced that the King is to ...

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