How and why does Macbeth change through
How and why does Macbeth change throughout the play? At the beginning of the play Macbeth was a noble, kind, ruthful, courageous and a loyal soldier. Throughout the play Macbeth changes from the beloved good man praised by most to an evil hated aggressive, ruthless murderer. Many different reasons were the cause of Macbeth’s changes for example; the influence of the witches’ predictions and Lady Macbeth’s manipulation had affected Macbeth extremely. At first Macbeth appears to be a brave, loyal honorable soldier especially respected by King Duncan, whom had given Macbeth the tittle of thane of Cawdor for his braveness and hard work. King Duncan greets Macbeth as ‘worthiest cousin!’ Macbeth answers ‘the service and the loyalty I owe, in doing it, pay itself.” Macbeth is answering Duncan that he did what he had to do, they were to do their best to ensure the king’s safety and show their love for him. Macbeth’s answer tells the audience that Macbeth is very faithful and devoted at that time. But soon after we see Macbeth having thoughts about killing Duncan. Macbeth becomes more arrogant and fearless especially because of the witches ‘predictions. ‘Be bloody, bold and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man-for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.’ This means that no man can harm Macbeth because every man is born of woman. Macbeth was very certain that he wouldn’t die since no man can kill him and from the other predictions the witches told Macbeth, this ensured that there was no way he could get harmed and feared no one. When Macbeth killed Duncan he was fearful and scared of being caught and having to pay for the wrongs he had done. After killing Duncan Macbeth repeats the word sleep so many times for example ‘sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep, sleep that knits up raveled sleeve of care. This repetition of the word helps us to understand what sleep means to Macbeth sleep is like death, he fears it. We see how fearful Macbeth