Macbeth Essay

Macbeth takes part in many murders during the whole story. He is involved in killing King Duncan, and also his old friend, Sir Bandquo, and Macduffs' son. Over time Macbeth started not feeling guilty for the things he had done. He was crying about how he had killed a friend, King Duncan, and how he was sad that he had committed to a murder. After his second murder, he kind of got more confident with killing people. He still felt bad, but he thought that since he had been through so much, he thought he shouldn't stop with the killings.

He got over his head with everything that was occurring at the time. " I am in blood stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er." He thought that it would be a whole big waste of time that he killed all those people, so why not stop now? I guess he enjoyed the rush, and how he was getting away with all of these things, without anyone finding out what he was up to all this time. No one was torturing him to kill anymore, like Lady Macbeth once did when she wanted Duncan dead. He is now doing this for himself and no one else. He isn't worrying on who is hurt. He is just killing for the fun of it, and doesn't know when to stop.

" I have lived long enough: my way of life is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I might not look to have--but in their stead curses." In this quote, he is basically saying that he is worthless, and a terrible person. He feels a lot of hatred for some reason, because he thinks no one likes him for who he is.

He wanted to be something else, like a king. Maybe he would be noticed by his friends and family. But, he soon found out that being a King wasn't so great after all. It wasn't what he wanted in life. So, he decided to kill because this was the way he could release his anger. He soon forgot that people did like him for who he was in the beginning. I think he should have stopped thinking about himself, and this was his downfall in the whole story. He was a mad man on the loose, that didn't know what he wanted in life, and this was a problem for him and those who surrounded him in his life.

"Such welcome and unwelcome things at once 'Tis hard to reconcile." I thought this quote was really important towards the story. Why you ask? Well, because Macduff is saying