In the beginning the sense of evil in Macbeth is created through the witches. They feed on what is foul and corrupt: "When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightening, or rain?"(A1. sc1.)

This image of the witches was real to the people of these times. To them and King James I, witches did exist.

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air": (A1. sc1.) This quote proves the witches' hatred for all things good, and their love for things that are evil.

It is clear that the witches are the roots of evil in the play. Evil is spread through them, in the form of ambition to Macbeth, and his wife. The witches cause Macbeth to think of what it would be like to be King of Scotland: All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter." (A1.sc.3) In turn the thought of regicide comes into being within Macbeth.

Lady Macbeth sets Macbeths ambition into motion; she persuades

Macbeth has lost any virtues or goodness after he hires murderers to kill Banquo and his son Fleance. Banquo was his best friend, but Macbeth has been blinded by ambition, he wants only power now, and he wants to make sure no one stands in his way.

Lady Macbeth is the mastermind behind the killing Duncan, and it's Macbeth that commits the evil deed because Lady Macbeth, being a woman cannot. " In Macbeth, for although his lady for a time dominates him, and although her tragedy is almost equal to his, in the end he dominates the play" (Paul A. Jorgens)

Shakespeare made Macbeths' characters transform before the eyes of his audience. Evil ambitions have enveloped them with a blanket of blood and sin. Lady Macbeth goes so far to succeed ambition that she defeminizes herself in Act I. Macbeth realizes that his actions dooms him, he know that if gets away with murder here, he will not getaway with it in the afterlife.

In Act 1. Sc. 7 Macbeth considers the moral implications of killing a good and virtuous king. His only justification is ambition.

With the murder of Duncan comes un-natural happenings, which is recurring in Shakespearean tragedies: " And Duncans' horses- a thing most strange and certain- Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race, Turn'd wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out, Contending 'gainst obedience, as they would make war with mankind. " 'Tis said they eat each other. (A2 sc4) Evil acts and wickedness in the play gives way to confusion

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