The theme for Macbeth was that great power comes great
responsibility and also that the person who holds power will one day lose
control of there own emotions and do what ever they can to hold that power as
long as they possible could.
Macbeth he starts off as a person that
trusted everyone and listened to what everyone tells him. Macbeth was a loyal
person to his king, but the prophecy of what the witches has told Macbeth was
that he was to rule someday. When he found out that he was destined to rule the
kingdom he told his wife she was like, "Are you afraid to match your acts
with your ambitions? Can you want that glittering prize-the crown-yet be a
self-confessed coward?" -Lady Macbeth (Act1,Scene7, lines
40-44). Lady Macbeth was able to manipulate Macbeth when he was make his
decisions and allowed Macbeth to push himself to kill the king to get the
kingdom. "All my faculties shall be devoted to this terrible
deed."-Macbeth. When Macbeth says terrible deed he knows that lady Macbeth
has persuade him to do something wrong.
Macbeth started to go a little crazy when
people started suspecting him to murder the king, he became so crazy that he
can no longer trust anyone not even his own wife. "To be thus- a king- is
nothing. I must be safely thus. I fear Banquo deeply..." (Act3,Scene1,
Line 47-48). Macbeth is afraid of Banquo because Banquo has evidence that could
accuse Macbeth for treason. Macbeth says this quote because he feels he must do
something with Banquo because he knows too much. ". Another reason he is a
little crazy of Banquo is because he also got a prophecy that his sons would
become king. Macbeth would want Banquo and his family to be out of the picture
so he can have all the power. The decisions he made eventually changing him
into a person that was hungry for power, just like his wife like lady Macbeth.
Macbeth towards the end became more of a crazy-evil dictator
or even a tyrant in this case because he kills his people because of the lack of
trust that he has with people because since he now has complete power he wants
to keep it like that. When his people found out that they change the loyalty to
macduff who was trying to get macbeth out of the kings throne, so "Time, you thwart my dreadful plans. Unless a
person does something the second he thinks of it, he’ll never get a chance to
do it. From now on, as soon as I decide to do something I’m going to act
immediately." (act1, line 12, scene 4).Which shows that he knows that
macduff would comeback to take control of his country.“bleed bleed my country while that tyrant rules”(Act 4
Scene 3 ).So that saying shows that the power has went to his head and made him
wanting even more.
So the person who holds power will one day lose control of there own emotions and do what ever they can to hold that power as long as they possible could one day come in to our life time so thats what ShakeSpear was trying to tell us writing "Macbeth".
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