When one of the witches prophesies that Macbeth will be Thane of Cawdor, a messenger which is send from Duncan came to Macbeth and announces that Macbeth will be Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth doesn’t believe it first and is confused; it has a big influence on Macbeth. After the king announces that his son will be king after him, Macbeth’s mind plays crazy. Macbeth considers killing the king, as revealed in his first soliloquies in the play. Shakespeare included soliloquies in the play, to let the audience know what the characters are thinking about. “Present fears are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical…” These are the lines showing Macbeth thinking about killing Duncan and even picture himself already as his murder.
Lady Macbeth is Macbeth’s wife and has an influence on him. Macbeth’s relationship with his wife is, in the first scenes of the play, nearly perfect. But it changes during the pay negatively. They start hiding thing for each other and what I think is nearly stopped loving each other. When Macbeth sends a letter about the witches’ prophecies, he becoming Thane of Cawdor and that Duncan’s son Malcolm accepts the inheritance, Lady Macbeth is more surprised. In the letter Macbeth includes words where he is talking, he has to do it if he wants the crown and words like evil, murder and supernatural. Lady Macbeth is very exciting bout the letter. She already thinks that the best solution is to kill the king without having any second thoughts or doubts. She says: “And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full……And take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers …That my keen knife see not the wound it makes by herself.” She even thinks of committing the murder by herself. This is the point where I can see the difference between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Although they have the same ambitions, Lady Macbeth is thinking there is no other way except killing the king but Macbeth is a bit skeptic about the situation. I think when Lady Macbeth hears that there is a chance for her to become queen she forgets everything and tries to use that chance even if someone dies for that she doesn’t care about that. When Macbeth thinks about everything what will happen if he kills the king and decides not to kill the king, Lady Macbeth jumps in and is trying to persuade him. She even questions him as a man; basically she is being unfair to Macbeth. At this point I think that Macbeth is a person who is easy to persuade. Although Macbeth was the one who has the plan to kill Duncan, he is the one who can stop it. So Lady Macbeth I a bit responsible and a key person that Macbeth is turning to an evil man. During the play Macbeth has changed to a different person then he is at the beginning. He has many secrets which he doesn’t share with his wife and sometime he even doesn’t share any information with her.
Before Macbeth is going to kill the king he sees a dagger, which is an illusion but looks real for him. Now that his wife persuaded him and confused him with pointless opinions he doesn’t knows if the dagger is a good sign or bad. After killing Duncan Macbeth knew he can’t act normal like nothing happened. He is for a while frozen and doesn’t know what to do he can’t even say words like amen.
Lady Macbeth is not the only influence Macbeth has, there are more which makes him to an evil man. Duncan is not the only one who had to doe so Macbeth can become king or still be king. One of Macbeth’s dearest friends Banquo is the second one who dies in the play because of Macbeth. After Macbeth became king, he remembers the prophecy of the witches for Banquo which is: “Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none. So all hail Macbeth and Banquo!” It means that Banquo’s sons will be king. Banquo only had one son called Fleance. Macbeth was jealous; he decides to kill Banquo and Fleance. I think this an act of evil; he is killing his best friend and by side that a kid just for the future crown which he wouldn’t need.
Another act of evil is when he sends killers to kill Macduff’s family, so Macduff shall never come back.
Ma conclusion is that Macbeth turned to an evil man because of his ambitions to become king and because of the people he is close to. Every character in the play has a part of making him to an evil person. I think that if Lady Macbeth knew what would happen, she would never persuade him to kill Duncan.
