Character Analysis of Macbeth

In the licentiousness we can easily suck up that Macbeth is driven by intake and later on in the satisfy tortured by his afflictions which partifest a great treat of inner conflicts seen in his soliloquies. Macbeth is a man dominated by a strong moral sense, a man who has a profoundly delicate sense of right and wrong and who k at presents at each stage the moral consequences of committing despatch Macbeth at the offshoot of the match is mentally stable and a veracious man plainly imputable to certain influences (supernatural and general) and his own flaw organism his overleap inspiration.His values and his better aspects begin to dwindle under his increase desire for power. Macbeth is an pillowcase of a normal man that has done a monstrous deed and from this deed giving rise to sorrow and paranoia, signalling his deterioration which eventually led to his tragic downfall. There be some(prenominal) save qualities of his character and Macbeth is essentially a g ood man tho finally is the architect of his undoing. At the beginning of the break away he is initiative qualities are introduce to us by the bleeding captain explaining his heroic act and valour limnn on the battle.He is described as great and valours minion which shows that he is really go outing to serve his king and country and strives to help Scotland to the better(p) of his abilities and all these merits gained during his battles help his ambition to grow. I switch no spur he states, to prick the facets of my intention, but only vaulting ambition this clarifies that he is very aspiring(prenominal) almost to the point that it might harm his own interests in the incoming which inevitably happens leading to his downfall.a nonher(prenominal) good example of his unstable ambition is when the three weird sisters begin to address him with title much(prenominal) as Thane of Cawdor and tell him that he shall be baron here afterwards spare-time activity this we very q uickly see his interest in these equivocal prophecies stay you imperfect speakers , this conveys that maybe he approximates he could attain these titles and from this it is evident his ambition leave alone try to do everything in its ability to strive for this greatness and promised rejoice even though the witches had explained nothing else making it clear that his ambition is similarly blind.His ambition is so great he acts on the words of strangers that he has never met before and becomes rapt in a world cut absent from others which is evident in his soliloquies where in each he equivocates at bottom himself-importance most what is good and evil which both stir up for mastery over him and this evil and his ambition seem to go hand in hand throughout the play and causes him to do things he regrets which build up and becomes a poser of the foreland and we see throughout the play the damage being dealt to his moral being.another(prenominal) example of his blind ambition wo uld be witnessed in deed 1 scope 7 when bird Macbeth questions his fearlessness and insinuates that he is a coward but Macbeth is adamant that he should prove himself a man regardless of what he is actually about to do which shows he is ambitious to impress others. Another last example of his ambition his with his goal to see the whole smirch through and says I am in blood stepped in so far that, should I wade no more and that returning were as tedious as goer . This shows he is eager to see through what he had pouched till the residue.Macbeths ambition has become dehumanised and will in addition end himself. Aside from Macbeths ambition we also witness in times of his self doubt when his rational oral sex and conscience starts to extinguish his ambition, the bad influences from many different sources seem to slowly dissolve his better qualities and set him indorse on the road to moral decline and his doom. Initially the witches are the first to influence him, telling him he will be promised power and glorification but never say he should act on or actually do anything at all but non-the-less kick start his decline.Later on in the play when he reencounters the witches once more they show him three apparitions one of which explain that he should Beware Macduff which influence him to lodge the killing of Macduff and his family which clearly shows how heavily influential these weird sisters are with regards to Macbeth acting on the prophecies with such unfaltering hastiness. The next influence and I think is one of the more dominant influences in the play his gentlewoman Macbeth.Lady Macbeth gave herself the responsibility to influence Macbeth and act when he wouldnt (which she never appears to do), calls upon the darkness and en equaln that tend on mortal thoughts to instil her with masculine features as to attention Macbeth in is goal for power. The first example of her influencing Macbeth is in Act 1 Scene 5 she explains how he should Look like the time and die hard welcome in his eyes during the spreading that the King Duncan is to at their home plate and to odour like the innocent flower but be the ophidian undert as in an effort to deceive The king to knowing where their accredited intention lie.This example of her influence is much softer in contrast to Act 1 Scene 7 which is a much harsher brand of influence. During the scene Macbeth states he will proceed no further in their plans and the King hath honoured him of late to which Lady Macbeth snaps at him saying was the hope drunk wherein you spiffed up yourself implying he was only brave whilst inebriated and also asks him if he would quite a live like a coward then to carry on with the plans he first begun.This is a blow to Macbeths manhood with regards to him being a coward and says he would do anything that will prove his masculinity. These attacks on her husband manhood is the tress she uses to influence him because she knows that Macbeth and most warri ors of his time put most of their effort into being the greater man and such insults drive Macbeth to act without question particularly when he feels his manhood is in question.Another factor in the play that influences Macbeths which manifested from his monstrous deed is his paranoia. The first signs of this paranoia is evident in act when he states to be thus is nothing but to be safely thus. This shows that he feels unsafe and that unless you are safe you are nothing and now he is influenced to destroy anything which might jeopardize his safety and the first parapet being Banquo.Reasons such as his royalty of nature reigns that which would be feared and Macbeth states his psyche is full of scorpions and his life-time is filled with terrible dreams/That shake us nightly, following these thoughts he quickly and subtly organises the killing of Banquo by means of hiring assassins. This challenge is a major step in Macbeths moral fibre due to the reason that Banquo was originall y his most trusted friend and ally and the express he is beginning to use murder as a gumshoe to solve most of his issues and concludes with himself that it is the only solution to his problems.There are also signs of the influence of jealousy with regards to when Banquo was told during the first encounter with the witches that he would have kings but be none and Macbeth realises that upon his head he now has a unimportant crown and a barren sceptre in his grip which angers him by the knowledge that his sons (if he ever has any) will never be publicize to the throne, this being another reason to murder Banquo.With regards to the influencing factors we see that at the beginning of the play Macbeth is mainly intervened by external forces influence but as the play proceeds slowly he withdraws from his wife and friends due to again his paranoia and becomes more fuelled by his emotions, the predominant emotions being fear and jealousy. Macbeths regret in the play with regards to the murder and following murders is one of the more important issues to mention, regret being the catalyst in which his characters morality and mental stability are remoulded by traumatic experience and long term symptoms of his ungodliness.The first provable example of his regret is scene when he attempts to opt out of the plans of murder and conveys that he feels guilty for any of these nefarious plans even crossing his mind but at this moment in the play he is not tortured by his guilt or regret obviously until he actually commits the crime but until then and right up until he is about to murder the king he is more greatly moved(p) by anxiousness to the extent that he hallucinates.After the murder has been affiliated he is very obviously traumatised and is paralyzed, unable to move due to his mind being completely occupied with what has happened. The damage dealt is clear when he says that he heard a voice cry Macbeth hath murdered the innocent repose which shows the beginning o f his restless nights which is the first harsh blow to his mental health. too in this scene Macbeth talks about the blood on his hands as if it is a metaphor for the guilt and in contrast to Lady Macbeth saying a little water clears us of this deed fool replies that not even all the waters of Neptunes oceans could not wash a port this blood or guilt from his hands. We can see his guilt and regret build up and burst out as witnessed in the banquet scene where Banquos ghost appears only to him and a mental breakdown takes place with moments of Macbeth almost unconsciously squeales the details of his to murders in the presence of lords to which the pressurised Lady Macbeth urgently tries to disguise.This ghost Macbeth is seeing in my opinion is not real but a complete manifestation of his guilt and regret and his better side subconsciously is trying to give himself up an attempt to save his damned soul, with regards to the mention where he states he would jump the life to come mea ning he is aware he will be punished in the afterlife.In Act 5 scene 3 we see that regret and guilt has affected to the extent that he nearly loses the will to live and feels that live is void of meaning I have lived long enough my way of life is falln into the sere, the yellow leaf he also realises that his poor decisions have bereaved him of things that would have originally accompanied his old age such as honour, love, obedience and troops of friends none of which he shall have to look forward to in his future.This indicates he is very regretful of almost everything he has done right back to the killing of Duncan. Throughout the course of the play Shakespeare weaves into the storyline small respites in which Macbeths slowly declining character shows moments that magnifies what is left of the qualities that have slightly in the audiences perspective and shows them he has not completely modify in this remorseless tyrant but is still just a man that has performed a monstrous act.T he first example of these save qualities is in Act 1 scene 7 where he says he will proceed no further in this business and acknowledges that king Duncan hath honoured him deep for his bravery in almost single-handedly ending the battle in the opening scenes of the play. At this point we see he has a good moral sense and instilled with the highly valued qualities such as esteem and honour but Lady Macbeth succeeds in convincing him otherwise diminish and muting these values in him.Throughout the play, we constantly see that Macbeth has a conscience towards his actions and does always have a general sense of right and wrong. . moral sense is exhibited after he kills Duncan but cant stand to look at the body. I am afraid to think what I have done look ont again I dare not. This lets us see that after Macbeth killed Duncan his conscience will not let him look at what he has done. He also realized what he had done could not be changed and it will affect him for the rest of his natura l life.Macbeth understands that he is marked for life and this realization in itself one of his redeem qualities. Another minor example of a redeeming quality is that Macbeth is too full othmilk of human munificence and that he isart not without ambition but has the absence of the ailment being ruthlessness. Back to the issue addressing his conscience with regards to it being a redeeming quality that is fighting a losing battle against the rest of the conflict within him. We witness many times his conscience trying to override his normal behaviour.Macbeths conscience creates the ghost of Banquo in an attempt to make him subconsciously confess to the murders which make us realise he is very sorry for what he has done which redeems him slightly through sympathy. One last sign of redeeming qualities is neat the end of the play where he stares in the face of death. He contemplates suicide by falling on his own sword as Romans used to do but even though he knows he has no one on his s ide he will fight to the end and die an honourable death showing his original bravery which he once used to fight for his country which reminds us that he was once a great hero.To conclude Macbeth is a tragic hero. A man with an ambitious but a victim of temptation and the player prophecies of his rise to power which seemed so close at the time was actual the beginning of Macbeths change from hero to tyrant. He was used as a vessel for chaos by the witches to plant their ideas of power into a stiff mind which was nurtured by his blind ambition which grew into an unstable mind tormented by regret and guilt.