Macbeth Essay
The Curtain opens you see iconic old
England characters and at that moment you know it is William Shakespeare. The
master play writer that wrote many plays to tell life stories and brings
literature to the people. In one of his greatest
plays called Macbeth tells the story of a young man who was told his future and
to gain the great power he did horrific things that came with great
consequences he started going insane and he grew apart from his wife. The lesson that is portrayed in Macbeth is
that people can change in terrible ways to gain power.
When you see the curtains open and
are introduced to Macbeth he seems like a good man with good morals. He doesn’t do wrong all he wants to do is fight
for his country and his king. But he
starts to get greedy when the witches tell him that he will become the future
king. You can see that he starts
thinking about killing the king once he hears the prophecy because everyone
wants to have power. Then he changes
when he tells his wife that the witches for told that he would be king changed
him to become a murderer a cold blooded killer.
But you can tell he didn’t turn in to a full on serial killer he still
has feelings. He says that he regretted
it because Duncan was a good man that didn’t do anything to him and he killed
him for power. That’s how power changed
the good Macbeth changed for power but he changes more as the play goes on.
The next time you see Macbeth a
little while past the killing of King Duncan.
He’s King he is different he starts to lose his sanity. He first gets paranoid and doesn’t trust
anyone. He doesn’t trust his right hand
man that went through war with him. He
thinks he knows too much and cant trust him because he can give him up. He also doesn’t like the prophecy of Banquo
being the father of a line of kings. So
he wants to kill him and his son so that he can keep the throne to himself
killing his friend. This shows that power is starting to make him corrupt and
crazy. There is also the scene where
Macbeth starts to see Banquos Ghost. He
starts to go crazy because he feels the pressure of his terrible deads and
feels guilty about his acts to stay king. But the biggest change is from the
end how much of a paranoid tyrant he becomes.
In the end of the play we see a
completely changed Macbeth. The first
terrible thing that you hear that he is doing.
He was such a tyrant that citizens of the Scottish kingdom left to help
Macduff because there were so many murders that they got used to ringing the
bells daily and they didn’t know who died.
That shows how corrupted he became that he couldn’t trust anyone in the
country. Then you find out that everyone.
Wants to overthrow the king because he is corrupt from his power. Macduff who is supposed to be loyal to the
throne leaves his family defenseless and they die. He doesn’t care that much all he was focused
on was killing the corrupt man.
In conclusion William Shakespeare
expresses a valuable life story through his famous play Macbeth. He portrays the message through a good man
becoming a power hungry tyrant because he was foretold to be king. The theme of the story was people change to
get power.
