Macbeth: Macbeth's Decent Into Hell

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Macbeth: Macbeth's Decent Into Hell

Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare. Macbeth is a man who commits a

series of crimes because of persuation from his wife that will benefit mostly

himself but also Lady Macbeth. The play watches Macbeth as he decents into hell

it also shows the conscious mind of a murderer and how murder affects peoples

minds.

At the beginning of the play Macbeth is a well respected warrior by

everybody. Macbeth is the thane of Glamis at the beginning of the play. Macbeth

met the three witches on the way home from a battle and they tell him that he

will become thane of Cawdor and eventually king and with Macbeth being

superstitous he believes the witches. When he gets home the king names him thane

of Cawdor and after he tells his wife about the witches predictions she

persuades him to kill Duncan and blame it on the guards. After they discover

that Duncan has been murdered his two sons split up so they wouldn't be killed.

Then Macbeth becomes king.

Later in the play Macbeth gets