So far we can see that Macbeth is a very brave and valiant man and both acts like one and is perceived as one by others. After the bravery shown by Macbeth the king then plans to got to his castle. This is when the actions of the witches start to affect the people around him. We find out that he has sent a note ahead to his castle telling of the witches and of the kings near arrival, and in this time his wife has taken it upon herself to make sure that he gets his prophesises.
However she thinks that he is “too full of the milk of human kindness” this scene is a big scene showing the changes in him. Lady Macbeth makes him kill Duncan by insulting his man hood and she takes control of the whole situation. “O never shall sun that morrow see!” “When u durst do it, then you were a man”
However we see that Macbeth doesn’t want to do it. “we will proceed no further in this business” to help Macbeth lady Macbeth calls on the evil spirits to make her evil “un sex me” “… to love the babe that milks me: I would while it was smiling in my face to have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums and dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you have to this”
Through out this Macbeth has an internal fight as to whether he should or shouldn’t kill Duncan the king. When he then approaches the king’s bed chamber to kill him he sees a knife in the air pointing to Duncan’s chamber Macbeth takes this an s a sign to kill him. However this event can be interpreted in two separate way it can either been sent that Macbeth was planning on killing him and it was his subconscious summoning this dagger or it could be seen as the witches are interfering with his life again by showing him this knife because they know that he will take it a clear sign to kill him. Because as we got through the book we notice that in every case that they can see what the future is going to be and they interpret that in a way which will suit them best is as to make the rise and all of Macbeth and other character all though not a direct example we can liken this to the newspapers in real life because the know the news before the public and they chose which way they want to interpret it and they way they do that can and will affect the way the public sees that piece of information.
However after the murder we see that Macbeth regrets what he has done and feels guilt and says while looking at his ands “this is a sorry sight.” However Lady Macbeth thinks he is foolish in what he has said “”foolish thought to say a sorry sight.” This is showing us at this point that she is evil and feels no regret whereas Macbeth feels like a person who has done a terrible “duty” because it was needed and not wanted. Macbeth even starts to worry he fears that “all of Neptune’s great sea could not wash the blood from his hands” and even kill the guards in front of many people because he is afraid.
However his attitude changes enormously when he has Banquo killed. He takes on the responsibility of arranging his death and unlike in Duncan’s death he doesn’t even consult his wife. He just goes about it as “business” not like someone wanting to kill someone. He thinks it is just fine 2 kill him because he is king. However when it is all done he started to see his ghost and then regret started to set in slightly. He feels as is he is going crazy this is another point in the play where it can be interpreted as if either the witches intervene or it’s his imagination “blood hath been shed ere now, I’ the olden time, ere human stature purg’d the gentle weal;” to me it shows how his the witches have affected him from when they first met him. His fate was decided and there is nothing he can do about it, all he could do is go along with that which was fore ordained for him. This is also the point in the play where all off the main characters in the play become suspect to Macbeth wrong doing.
After he has had Banquo disposed of he meets the witches again, but we can see from their discussion that the witches have helped Macbeth too much and are now going to have to bring him down. The way that they think that they can do this is by making him think that he cannot be hurt so that he will become careless. They do this by showing him three apparitions and each one of them will show him some of the future. First is an armoured head. In my opinion this is Macbeth head since it is calling out in warning to Macbeth, the second apparition is that of a bloody child I think this is representative of the baby of the thane of fife that is mentioned in the first apparition. The one that is not of women born (caesarean birth) and therefore able 2 harm Macbeth and finally a child with a tree in its hands saying that Macbeth’s castle will not be defeated until the forest moves.
After this has happened there is a big change in Macbeth’s attitude he feels like he cannot be defeated and becomes more arrogant many other people also show publicly that they do not like him any more and many go to England to seek aid. Straight after this has happened Macbeth feels that he must kill Macduff because he is said to be the only threat to his kingship. So yet again he dispatches his gang of murderers to go kill Macduff only to find out that he has fled to England to get help from the king of England to overthrow Macbeth. So because he cannot kill Macduff he has the whole of his house hold wife servant’s children and all. This is when all but the weak feel threatened by Macbeth's power a have started to think ill of him and think that he has gone crazy. This action that Macbeth took may have been his down fall. Because it started the whole movement into action. After this massacre the whole of England think that he is a mad man and start to support Macduff and the princes. While this is happening Macbeth is in his castle thinking that he is safe from all harm because of the apparitions.
When the armies stand outside the castle of Macbeth he starts to fell apprehensive but still content that he “cannot” be hurt. There is a big difference in his actions and feelings of Macbeth at this point in the play we no longer see the brave honourable Macbeth but an evil apprehensive Macbeth. However when the final conflict goes into action we see that the Macbeth we loved at the start of the story is hidden but still alive but he must fight to the death because what has happened in his life means that he is to far into his actions to stop he must follow through and see what happens.
