Macbeth Essay by Nicole P.

“Macbeth” is a play about Macbeth wanting to be king of Scotland because of prophecies told to him by witches. William Shakespeare wrote Macbeth in the 16^th century. Lady Macbeth influences her husband to fulfill the witches’ prophecies. She desires to be Queen. When Macbeth became Thane of Cawdor it changed him. He interruption of the witches’ prophecies fueled his need to become king. Superstition can affect human behavior and bad things can begin to happen.

Lady Macbeth influences her husband to fulfill the witches’ prophecy. She wanted Macbeth become king so she can become Queen. She was telling him if he didn’t kill the king she would be very angry with him.

Make my blood thick; make my feelings numb and incapable of pity, so that no natural pangs of remorse, should come and shake my deadly purpose, nor stand in the way of the achievement of that purpose. Come to my women’s breasts and replace my milk with gall, you spirits that urge to murder, wherever your invisible forms are aiding the destructive forces of nature

(Act 1, Scene 5, lines 45 to 52).

Lady Macbeth believes in the predictions of the witches. She bosses him into doing what he only thinks to do.

Macbeth believed the witches because he had a desire to become king. He had desire to become king because Lady Macbeth really wanted to rule Thane of Cawdor. He has no say in anything he does while he’s married to her.

Two fortunate prophecies have proven true in the beginning to a splendid play on the theme of kingly power. I thank you, gentlemen. This invitation by supernatural beings cannot be bad, and yet it cannot be good. If it is bad, why has it given me a promise of success, beginning with something true? (Act 1, Scene 3, lines 137 to 143).

Macbeth is talking about prophecies cannot always be good some are also bad. He thought that the witches’ were his friends because he listened to everything the witches said.

Believing in the prophecies can lead to Macbeth’s downfall. I chose this idea because it explains why Macbeth died. Another character of this example is Lady Macbeth.

Be strong like a lion and proud, and do not worry about anyone who angers or troubles you, or where conspirators might be. Macbeth will never be defeated until great Birnam wood marches to fight against him (Act 4, Scene 1, lines 98 to 103)

Men dressed up like trees and bushes can sneak up and attack Macbeth. He didn’t know that the armies were coming because he was thinking about what the witches’ prophecies told him to do.

At the end of the play it tells us that Macbeth dies in a fight with Macduff. In the fight Macbeth had a hot head because he thought he was going to win because of what the witches’ prophecies told him. The biggest idea that ties everything up is that Lady Macbeth influences her husband to fulfill the witches’ prophecy. Superstition can affect human behavior and bad things begin to happen.