Evil, like a disease, infects its victims and makes them sick until they die. Such is when using drugs; they begin to consume you and may eventually kill you. This is evident in the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, and especially in the character Lady Macbeth. In the play, she takes the role of the evil manipulator with her husband Macbeth. At first she is certain that murder will be righted when using it to make the prophecies told by the Three Witches become true. In Act I, Lady Macbeth begins her evil decline by manipulating and trying to convince Macbeth that making the prophecies into reality by the means of murder is the right thing to do.
She believes that these prophecies must be true simply because of their magical source; therefore, making them into reality by any means necessary must be the right thing to do. She drags Macbeth into her evil conniving by explaining that he would be the king which would make her the king, therefore, leaving the throne to their kin after he dies. Eventually, Macbeth give way to her conspiring and follows through with murdering King Duncan, two of the kings guards, Banquo and attempting but failing to kill Banquo’s son in order to prevent them from taking the throne away from him. In the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth is positively sure that they could do anything in order to make these prophecies become true even if they had to stoop so low as to betray their king and commit murder.
Just the very thought of her husband becoming king and her to be his queen with so much power is overwhelming and she is consumed by it. Soon all she can do is thrive for the power but is at the same time devoured by guilt. Soon enough the guilt of having been responsible for all the evil things that had come to pass is too much for her. Macbeth, after the murders that he commits, becomes so infected by evil that, over time, he feels decreasingly guilty.
The Essay on Bloody Macbeth Banquo King Murder
BLOCK 4 TH DATE 09/10/00 Bloody Macbeth Macbeth was written by William Shakespeare in 1606. In Act 2, we see Macbeth assassinate the king, and get shaken from it. Later on in Act 3, Macbeth plans to kill Banquo by murderers to assure his own safety. On the other hand, the three witches appear with Hecate, and plan to show Macbeth some magic that will lead him to his own destruction. Act 3 also ...
After a while things like betrayal, murder, lying and deceit become perfectly normal. Evil has a completely opposite affect on Lady Macbeth however, and she becomes so inflicted with guilt that she looses her mind and commits suicide. Guilt takes its toll on Macbeth towards the end of the play though and he begins to fear the end and how it may come about, so he begins to watch his back making sure that other parts of the prophecies do not come true but when they do he is ready to accept his fate and die. At the end of the play, Macduff kills Macbeth, and the evil reign over Scotland is over.
Although for a time Lady Macbeth as well as Macbeth himself convince themselves that the things they are doing are the right things to do their actions are evil. Things such as murder, betrayal, lying and deceit are evil and in some circumstances can bring about pain and death to innocent people as well as yourself. The play Macbeth gives an extreme amount of evidence of evil and how, like a disease, it infects its victims and makes them sick until they die. It is evident in many of the characters such as Lady Macbeth, Banquo and Macbeth himself. All were infected by evil and were eventually killed by it.
