Macbeth :: essays research papers

One matter leads to another. This is a statement most people are familiar with, specially if they read William Shakespeare&8217s Macbeth. It tells what happens to the tragic protagonist, Macbeth. At the start of the play, Macbeth is a super praised and loyal nobleman admired by all until he becomes a victim of the witches. Their promises evoke his unrestrained ambition. From then on, Macbeth&8217s actions snowball emerge of his control and under the witches&8217 power. His unholy deeds trouble his sleep, and the innocent victims hand to haunt him. Evil spirits take over his every relocation and thought. The luring prophecies, sleepless nights, hallucinations, and deceptive apparitions are all products of sorcery used to slander Macbeth&8217s moral judgment and lead him to further degradation.By putz Macbeth&8217s desire for power and prestige with promising prophecies and giving him office with the apparitions, the witches lure him to commit evil deeds and to continue doing so endlessly. Their alluring prophecies bait Macbeth into their deceitful plot. Banquo, a fellow nobleman, warns him about the prophecies, &8220But &8216tis gothic and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray&8217s in deepest consequence (I, 3, 122-127). Banquo is a smart man, and it is homeless that Macbeth ignores his advice. To be sure that Macbeth self-destructs by his own sinful behavior, the sorceresses create vatical images that ensure him security. Not knowing they are all part of the deception, Macbeth well succumbs to their plan. He aimlessly kills, believing nothing can harm him, yet he is dead wrong. The witches true intention is best revealed in Hecate&8217s orders, &8220And that distilled by magic sleights shall raise such artificial sprites as by the strength of their illusion shall draw him on to his confusion (III, 5, 26-29). Macbeth&8217s biggest casualty is encountering the witches , and an even bigger mistake is to revisit them. The cunning scheme of the arch(a) women successfully leads Macbeth to evil and confuses him enough for him to lose command of his actions.Even apart from the witches, Macbeth still cannot escape their evil influence. By using hallucination, haunting spirits, and phantasmal images, they over-power his ability to make right judgments. Macbeth&8217s hallucinating experience begins when he sees a dagger leading him to kill King Duncan. Macbeth&8217s answer to the sight was, &8220Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight, or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a fatal creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?