Banquo’s ghost appears to Macbeth at the banquet and Macbeth is angry that Macduff is avoiding him. He decides to visit the witches again to find out what the future holds. The apparitions apparently give Macbeth comforting news, but the show of the king displeases him. Macbeth orders the deaths of Macduff’s family. Malcolm has an army to oppose Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is breaking down under the stain of recent events. Macbeth is deserted by most of his followers and many Scots want to see the end of Macbeth. Lady Macbeth commits suicide. The battle of Dunsinane is quickly over. Macduff kills Macbeth and Malcolm is named king.
The circumstances of Macbeth’s down fall are the events that Macbeth had no control over, those events that were a mater of chance. One of the possible circumstances was Macbeth’s meeting with the witches, ‘All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis.’ These are the witches’ first words to Macbeth in scene 3. If Macbeth had not met the witches then he may not have killed Duncan, which was the start of his down fall. However, should we consider this a genuine circumstance? In the first scene we see the withes planning to ‘meet with Macbeth’ and therefore this event is not a matter of pure chance and therefore not a circumstance.
However, the presence of Banquo at this meeting was not planned in the first scene. This implies that it was chance that Banquo was also there. Banquo demands a prediction for himself, ‘speak then to me,’ and it is this prediction that Banquo ‘shalt get kings’ (be the father of kings) that is clearly an example of how circumstance helped waste Macbeth’s great character.
Macbeth loves his wife. We know that he loves her because he wrote her a letter about the witches and addressed her as ‘my dearest love’. The letter that he sent was a love letter. Macbeth and Banquo are very good friends, When they see the witches they agree not to tell anyone. After they saw the witches they started to laugh about it but after Macbeth was made ‘Thane of Cawdor’ he started to believe in what the witches said.
Macbeth was loyal but he lost his entire attribute as soon as he meets the witches. Macbeth has lost his attribute and Macbeth is jealous of Banquo. Macbeth kills the king and Banquo because he thinks that Banquo knows something and he might tell someone and one of his sons could become king. Macbeth has gone from good to bad. Lady Macbeth killed her self by jumping out of a window because she started to go mad. She kept seeing blood on her hands. Macbeth goes back to the witches to ask them what will happen to him next. This shows how much he has changed as at the beginning of the play he did not trust the witches.
Macbeth changes from good to bad because of Lady Macbeth, the witches and his own ambition. Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth to kill King Duncan by saying he is a coward and by sexual taunting. She sets the idea in his mind. She is the first to actually say let’s kill Duncan. Lady Macbeth calls upon the forces of darkness before they committed the murder of the king to ‘unsex’ her. So she could help kill Duncan.
The witches open the play by putting a spell on Macbeth. They offer him great temptations, and they ‘unsex’ Lady Macbeth, giving her strength to kill Duncan. They haunt him with visions to disturb his mind. The visions that he saw was a dagger pointing to the king’s room with blood on it and Banquo’s sitting in his seat. Macbeth lists many reasons for not killing Duncan but quickly finds one reason to kill Duncan.
Macbeth’s ambitions were to win the wars for the King and country before he turned nasty. After he turned nasty his ambitions had changed to be the most powerful man in Scotland and become King
