Macbeth

Throughout the play Macbeth, Macbeth has some different characteristics. At some times, he was smart and showed lots of courage. However, he was also ridiculous and ignorant. During some parts of the play, Macbeth was friendly and had a lot of ambition. Yet, he seems to use other people to make the important decisions for him. All of these things contribute to his death and the close of the play.

When Shakespeare's play begins, Macbeth is very heroic. He becomes very eager to become the king and in the opening scenes is very friendly with the present king Duncan. They use the quote that says, "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me". Because of his wanting to be king, he changed from nice to evil. All of his good nature vanished. As soon as Duncan arrived at Inverness, Macbeth started plotting Duncan's murder. Lady Macbeth thought of Macbeth as a coward at times, like when he started feeling guilty of the murder. But, the murder did take place. Ever since that murder, Macbeth turned completely evil.

In the Murder of Duncan scene, Macbeth turns cowardly when he won't complete the murder by taking back the daggers and giving them to the guards. It shows that he was insecure, and didn't seem very confident in the success of the murder. However, Macbeth no longer needed Lady Macbeth's encouragement and started to plan murders on his own. He turned monstrous.

Towards the end of the play, Macbeth kills his so-called friend Banquo. However, you can tell that Macbeth is insecure and feels guilty because he starts seeing Banquo and hallucinating things. Sure, some might say that Macbeth feels guilty therefore he is vulnerable, and he is not such a bad guy. This is just not true. He killed innocent people for no good reason.

I'm sure Macbeth didn't think that Macduff would come back for revenge as a result of Macbeth killing his whole family and staff. But Macduff did come for revenge, and he got it. Macbeth's ambition of the witches and their predictions deceived him when he found out that Macduff wasn't born of woman and the 3rd apparition was true. That's when he knew he was not going to be safe.

So in the end Macbeth dies just as he deserves too. He is a horrible monstrous man who killed innocent ones for no reason. Therefore he doesn't deserve to live. He