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MacBeth Essay Final

      Change can be both a good and bad thing. If you change to become a better person for yourself then that is a good example of change, but if you change to fit into someones life and change the person you are is a bad example. For example in the play “MacBeth” by William Shakespeare, a character named Macbeth changes to fill his wife Lady MacBeth needs for power.  He has changed his morals in life to make another happy, even if that means killing the ones closest to him. MacBeth loses everything he once cherished for power that he didn’t even want. William Shakespeare’s “MacBeth” shows us that you shouldn’t change to live a life that is not meant for you, or else you will destroy the person you once were. 

      MacBeth in the beginning of the story was thought of as a humble person. People liked him and thought that he was a strong noble warrior. “I wish you had deserved less, so that I might have been able to give you thanks and payment in a proportion greater then you deserve. I can only say that more is owing to you then can ever be repaid.” But then MacBeth received a message from the three witches telling him that he would become king once King Duncan died. MacBeth wrote a letter telling Lady Macbeth what would happen. However, Lady MacBeth wanted to gain the power faster so she told MacBeth to kill the king. "When Duncan is asleep, which his hard day's journey will strongly invite him to, I will so overpower his two servants with wine and drunken toasts that memory, which should guard the brain, will become merely a wisp of smoke, and the vessel of reason (the brain) will only be an empty container. Asleep like swine, their alcohol-drowned senses numb as if in death what can't we two do then to the unguarded Duncan? What blame can't we attach to his drunken servants, who will be held guilty of our great murder?” With getting a glimpse of a life they could have Lady MacBeth is already trying to convince MacBeth to change for the bad. 

       Lady MacBeth convinced MacBeth to kill Duncan by calling him a coward and telling him that "If Duncan hadn't looked like my father in his sleep, I'd have done it myself.” causing his morals to change. MacBeth killed someone because his wife told him to, and he didn’t want to upset her so he did. After he killed Duncan MacBeth was paranoid about everything. Every little sound he heard he would freak out about. Whenever someone would whisper he thought that they knew what he and Lady MacBeth did. "Where is that knocking coming from? What is the matter with me that every noise terrifies me?” MacBeth is changing more and more each time people talk leading him to become someone he's not. He sent out murderers to kill Banquo, his best friend, because the three witches said that his children would be kings. After the death of Banquo, Macbeth wasn’t quit the same. Turning a kind, loyal man into a monster afraid of everything all for the name of King and Queen

      With having stolen power, MacBeth was more suspicious of everything. He grew more frantic about the crimes he had committed that he sent murderers out to kill MacDuff because he was told by the three witches that MacDuff was a danger, so to get him out of the way he was going to kill him. “Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff; Beware the thane of Fife.” But when the murderers got to MacDuff place he already left to find Malcolm. The day MacDuff was coming to battle MacBeth his wife died. The wife he cared so much for, that he killed people for committed suicide because she was overwhelmed with killing Duncan. “The queen, my lord, is dead.” But MacBeth didn’t care, he stopped caring for her because he was too caught up in everything else to focus on anything besides staying alive himself. In the end MacBeth died, and Malcolm became king. It’s fitting that the power MacBeth fought so hard for to get ended up killing him in the end.

      William Shakespeare’s “MacBeth” shows us that you shouldn’t change to live a life that is not meant for you, or else you will destroy the person you once were. That is exactly what happened to MacBeth. He changed who he was, for power that he wasn’t supposed to have. He may have physically died at the end, but the person he once was died when he decided to kill to Duncan for power. He lost all of his morals, thus the man he changed into was for the worst, not for the greater good. He should have just waited for his time to be king, not trying to change fate and make it come faster. Shakespeare teaches us to stay true to who you are and not to change for someone else. 

MacBeth Rough Draft

Change can be both a good and bad thing. If you change to become a better person for yourself then that is a good example of change, but if you change to fit into someones life and change the person you are is a bad example. In the play “MacBeth” there are two characters named MacBeth and Lady MacBeth, and one of them makes the other change for the wrong reason. MacBeth changes to gain power for him and Lady MacBeth no matter the price he has to pay. William Shakespeare’s “MacBeth” shows us that you shouldn’t change to live a life that is not meant for you, or else you will destroy the person you once were. 

MacBeth in the beginning of the story was thought of as a humble person. People liked him and thought that he was a strong noble warrior. “I wish you had deserved less, so that I might have been able to give you thanks and payment in a proportion greater then you deserve. I can only say that more is owing to you then can ever be repaid.” But then MacBeth received a message from the three witches telling him that he would become king once King Duncan died. MacBeth wrote a letter telling Lady Macbeth what would happen. However, Lady MacBeth wanted to gain the power faster so she told MacBeth to kill the king. "When Duncan is asleep, which his hard day's journey will strongly invite him to, I will so overpower his two servants with wine and drunken toasts that memory, which should guard the brain, will become merely a wisp of smoke, and the vessel of reason (the brain) will only be an empty container. Asleep like swine, their alcohol-drowned senses numb as if in death what can't we two do then to the unguarded Duncan? What blame can't we attach to his drunken servants, who will be held guilty of our great murder?” With getting a glimpse of a life they could have Lady MacBeth is already trying to convince MacBeth to change for the bad. 

Lady MacBeth convinced MacBeth to kill Duncan by calling him a coward and telling him that "If Duncan hadn't looked like my father in his sleep, I'd have done it myself.” causing his morals to change. MacBeth killed someone because his wife told him to, and he didn’t want to upset her so he did. After he killed Duncan MacBeth was paranoid about everything. Every little sound he heard he would freak out about. Whenever someone would whisper he thought that they knew what he and Lady MacBeth did. "Where is that knocking coming from? What is the matter with me that every noise terrifies me?” MacBeth is changing more and more each time people talk leading him to become someone he's not. He sent out murderers to kill Banquo, his best friend, because the three witches said that his children would be kings. After the death of Banquo, Macbeth wasn’t quit the same.

With having stolen power, MacBeth was more suspicious of everything. He grew more frantic about the crimes he had committed that he sent murderers out to kill MacDuff because he thought that he knew that he killed Duncan. But when the murderers got to MacDuff place he already left to find Malcolm. The wife he cared so much for, that he killed people for, he stopped caring for her because he was too caught up in everything else. “The queen, my lord, is dead.” MacBeth was to busy trying not to die himself that he didn’t care when his wife died. In the end MacBeth died, and Malcolm became king. It’s fitting that the power MacBeth fought so hard for to get ended up killing him in the end.

William Shakespeare’s “MacBeth” shows us that you shouldn’t change to live a life that is not meant for you, or else you will destroy the person you once were. That is exactly happened to MacBeth. He may have physically died at the end, but the person he once was died when he decided to kill to Duncan for power. He lost all of his morals, thus the man he changed into was for the worst, not for the greater good. He should have just waited for his time to be king, not trying to change fate and make it come faster. 

2 Questions & Macbeths Soliloquy

1. Macbeth seemed like a person who people looked up to and was a hero, but he actually is a coward who will do anything his wife tells him to. She makes him do really bad things even when he doesn’t want to. He takes the easy way out of things by killing Duncan to get power instead of working for it. After Macbeth killed Duncan he becomes worried of everything. He panics at every little sound he hears and he isn’t himself anymore. He has done something so bad that he probably will never go back to normal, he will alway be afraid that people will learn his secret. 

2. In Act III Macbeth will be crowned new king due to Duncan's death. Macbeth will probably be frightened that someone will find out what he and his wife did, so he will do everything in his power to stop that from happening. He will blame other people for what he did to keep his new position as king. 

Macbeth’s Soliloquy:

Why did I let her talk me into doing that? I didn’t want to kill Duncan, he trusted me. He didn’t deserve to die so I could get power. The only way I can live with myself is because I keep telling myself that I gave my wife what she wanted. Yeah that’s what I did, I gave my wife happiness. I gave us power. But still, I killed a man who thought I was his friend. I still have nightmares when I sleep, every little noise scares me. I guess I should listen to my wife advice and to stop being a coward, whats done is done. I should act like we did nothing wrong and move on with my life. I will do everything in my power to make sure we do not get caught for Duncan’s murder. I shall be the great king that I was always meant to be. 

LA2 Handout #2 4/1

Part I:

1.  Yes, Lady Macbeth is a cold blooded murderer because she tells Macbeth to kill Duncan and she doesn’t feel guilty about it, she also puts the bloody daggers in the guards hands to frame them when they are knocked out. 

2. Lady Macbeth faints to look innocent so it would take Macduff’s suspicions away. It works because it fooled Malcolm, Macduff, and Donalbain and she was carried away.

3. The of Duncan gets to him and he lets the guilt overcome him. He starts to say things that will give away what he and Lady Macbeth did. 

4. Lady Macbeth did not kill Duncan because he looked like her father when he was sleeping. 

5. Macbeth should do whatever it takes to still be king because he didn’t go through all of that work to have someone find out it was him that killed Duncan and let them take it away from him. 

Part II:

1. ”My hands are the same color as yours - but I'd be ashamed to have a heart as white as yours!” Page 73

"Weak-willed creature ! Give me the daggers. Persons sleeping or dead are only like paintings. It is childish to fear a painted devil. If Duncan bleeds, I'll paint the guards' faces with the blood, because they must appear to be guilty of his murder.” Page 51

2. "Who could control himself that had a loving heart and in that heart the courages to show it?

*faints* Help me out here.” Page 63

"What will you do? Let's not get together with them. To show sorrow you don't feel is an act which comes easily to a hypocrite. I'm going to England. And I'm going to Ireland. By going separate ways, we shall both be safer. Wherever the two of us are, men's smile conceal daggers. The closer the relative, the nearer he is to spilling our blood.” Page 65

3. "Where is that knocking coming from? What is the matter with me that every noise terrifies me?” Page 51

"Who can be wise and astounded, and calm and furious, loyal and neutral, all at the same time? Nobody. My passion overwhelmed my reason. Here lay Duncan” Page 85

4. "If Duncan hadn't looked so much like my father as he slept, I would have murdered him myself.” Page 69

LA2 Handout #1 3/31

Part I:

1. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are in love. Close to the end of Act I Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to go through with the murder of Duncan 

2.  Macbeth ultimately decides to go through with the murder because Lady Macbeth told him to. She called him a coward if he didn't kill Duncan. 

3. This far in the story Macbeth seems like a good person, and society enjoyed him. But his wife can show the ugly side of him when she tells him to kill Duncan.

4. Macbeth will get away with the murder of Duncan because no one will think it was him due to his loyalty to him. Also Lady Macbeth left bloody daggers with the security.

5. Macbeth should not kill him unless his reason was fitting. Like if he was a bad king and didn't help the people and Macbeth wanted to take control and help the people. He shouldn't kill him just because his wife told him to for power. 

Part II:

1. “We will speak further about it. Just look innocent a troubled face is always dangerous. Leave all the rest to me.” Page 31

“I beg you, be quiet! I dare do all that is fitting for a man to do; anyone who dares do more is not a man.” Page 37

2.  "When Duncan is asleep ---- which his hard day's journey will strongly invite him to ---- I will so overpower his two servants with wine and drunken toasts that memory, which should guard the brain, will become merely a wisp of smoke, and the vessel of reason (the brain) will only be an empty container. Asleep like swine, their alcohol-drowned senses numb as if in death ---- what can't we two do then to the unguarded Duncan? What blame can't we attach to his drunken servants, who will be held guilty of our great murder?" Page 39

"What monster was it then that made you share this scheme with me? When you dared to do it, then you were a man." Page 57

3.  "I'm settled on it then. All my faculties shall be devoted to this terrible deed. Let's go and pass the time as perfect hosts. We must conceal our false hearts behind false faces." Page 61

"We teach the art of bloodshed, then become the victims of our own lessons. This evenhanded justice makes us swallow our own poison." Page 55

4. "We will speak further about it. Just look innocent - a troubled face is always dangerous. Leave all the rest to me." Page 31

"Welcome him with your eye, your handshake, your conversation. Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent hidden underneath it. For Duncan's coming, preparations must be made, and you must put this night's important business under my direction.” Page 31