"What Goes Around Comes Around"

In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare the motivation to succeed in Macbeth's life becomes overpowering, and pushes him into total destruction. Through out the entire play Macbeth is going down a spiral path of lunacy and physical hardship. The people in his life easily influence his decision and his wrongful actions to achieve his goal of success. Some of the influences on Macbeth include the witches and their apparitions, the dominance of Lady Macbeth, and ultimately Macbeth's own insecurities, ambition and misguided attempts to control his future.

One of the first major influences on Macbeth's actions are the witches and their prophecies. The visions provided by the three witches begin Macbeth's quest for dominance. In the beginning Macbeth seems to be happy and satisfied with his life until the witches tell him he will be king. He soon begins to consider murdering Duncan. "If good, why do I yield to that suggestion" So the witches have "stroked the fires of his ambition" Macbeth writes Lady Macbeth. "They met me in the day of success; and I have learned by the perfect report, they have more in them than mortal knowl

Lady Macbeth is a second major influence on the demise of Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is like a joined appendage to Macbeth. They work as one, communicate as one, and when that appendage is lost, so is Macbeth's grip with reality. Lady Macbeth was the only person he could truly confide in. Her death at the end of the play sends Macbeth completely over the edge. As soon as Lady Macbeth learns of the witches' words from Macbeth's letter, she intends to influence him to kill Duncan. When Macbeth decides not to continue with their plan to murder Duncan, Lady Macbeth gets very upset and insists Macbeth should kill the king and reign as the king of Scotland. She says, "Art thou afeard, To be the same in thine own act and valour, As thou art in desire? / Thy nature it is too full o'th' milk of human kindness." She then makes sure he will perform the deed by taking an active role in preparing for the murder. "His two chamberlains / Will I with wine and wassel so convince," Then while cleaning up. "Give me the daggers: the sleeping, and the dead, Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood, That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt."

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