In the following scene we hear of an honourable Macbeth, fighting valiantly for his king against enemies:
Here there is a contrast between scenes I and II, with evil being shown in I and good being shown in II. However, it is in scene III that good and evil collide, when Macbeth meets with the witches. In this scene the witches prophesy Macbeth’s future – one hails him with his current title, Thane of Glamis. Another greets him with the title ‘Thane of Cawdor’, a title he does not currently possess. The third witch hails him as ‘King
In Macbeth the theme of good vs evil as it is presented throughout Macbeth. MacBeth is an insane man. In the story there are countless times where he shows he is insane. One of these times is when he is out fighting and he doesn’t give a dam what he is doing and he rages but in the end he is killed .Much of this play is filled with the struggle between good and evil. The good in the first two acts is King Duncan, but the struggle went in favor of darkness. This struggle occurs in every act of the play.
Also, in Act 5, Macduff enters and says, "If thou ] be slain and with no stroke of mine,My wife and children’s ghosts will haunt me still" Macduff can't rest until he gets revenge on the killer of his family, something Malcolm and Fleance (whose family was also killed by Macbeth) didn’t say.
Macduff is the hero of the play. He is the good side that will soon come to a final climactic battle with the evil Macbeth.
The image of blood is an important one in the tragedy of Macbeth, but the meaning changes throughout the play. At the play’s opening, the image of blood is seen as a symbol of honor and courage, when Macbeth successfully kills the enemy. However, the imagery of blood quickly changes to show a form of treachery and treason. Right after Macbeth kills Duncan, Macbeth and his wife have a conversation about the smeared blood on Macbeth’s hand.
Perhaps the best way to describe how the image of blood changes throughout the play is by following the character changes in Macbeth. At the beginning of the play, he is a brave honored soldier, but as the play progresses, he becomes identified with death and bloodshed, along with showing his guilt in different forms. The first reference to blood is one of honor, showed in Act I,. This occurs when Duncan sees the injured sergeant and says, "What bloody man is that?" Here blood is symbolic of the brave fighter who has been injured in a valiant battle for his country. In the next passage, when the sergeant says that Macbeth‘s sword "smok'd with bloody execution," he is referring to Macbeth's braveness in which he covers his sword in battle . After this episode, the symbol of blood changes to represent treachery and treason.
We are given signs at the beginning of the play that Macbeth’s greatness, as a man and as a war hero has reached at its maximum before the play starts. We know that since he has already reached his highest point of greatness, he can only go down from there.
