Macbeth Essay

Everyone is faced with choices throughout their lives. A choice is an act or instance of choosing or selection. In the tragedy play Macbeth written by William Shakespeare the protagonist, Macbeth, is constantly faced with choices. In the play the author is suggesting that sometimes the choices we make for ourselves end up causing unwanted consequences. Consequently, Macbeth's choices to kill his friends and their families, lie to himself and others, and believe the witches, lead him into some troubles.

Macbeth's choice to kill is very threatening to him. Macbeth first victim was the very loyal, noble, kind and caring King Duncan of Scotland. Macbeth had no reason to kill the King since the King was always kind to him. Macbeth's choice to kill the King was a very selfish choice. Macbeth killed the King in the middle of the night and blamed it on his guards who Macbeth got drunk so they wouldn't remember the night. Macbeth then choose to hire people to kill his best friend Banquo because Macbeth believed Banquo was suspicious of him. Macbeth finally ordered to have a whole family killed. He wanted Macduff's family killed since he wasn't able to get to Macduff himself. All of these killings led up to people turning on Macbeth and him being all alone. He eventually made people so mad that they wanted him dead and were plotting to kill him.

Lying is something Macbeth constantly chooses to do. Lying not only affects Macbeth's relationships with others, but it affects him and his behaviors. Macbeth lies to himself when he tries to let himself think that everything will be okay. He lies to Lady Macbeth when he plans to kill Banquo. As well as lying to many others along his journey. The lies eventually catch up to Macbeth and cause people to turn against him. His wife, Lady Macbeth, ends up not being able to handle it and commits suicide, leaving Macbeth on his own.

The witches prophecies seem very believable to Macbeth. Whatever the witches say Macbeth believes. Since Macbeth believes the witches he trys hard to make what they say come true. At times this gets Macbeth in trouble since some of the things they are saying are confusing to him. The first time Macbeth visits the witches they tell him he will be thane of cawdor, thane of Glamis, and King. The second time he visits them they show him apparitions, there are four of them. The first is an armed head which tells Macbeth to beware of Macduff, and