Macbeth: Shakespeare's Tragic Villain
Macbeth: Shakespeare's Tragic ViLLain
From nobLe hero to ‘dead butcher', we witness the destruction of a man's character.
How did the destruction come about?
What was actually destroyed was Macbeth's mind. He lost his conscience, his morality, and any connection with goodness.
What he achieved by his overwhelming ambition wasn't exactly what he had intended to achieve. And so, he became more determined while his ambitions grew stronger. He couldn't digest the fact that he was winning yet actually losing. He had become king – but he didn't receive the respect, honour and love that Duncan had had.
He wanted to prove – to himself, to his wife, to the witches, to everyone – that he was capable of and rightful in being king.
But he knew that nobody was encouraging him, except for his wife and the witches. And having only them encouraging him, the spectator knows that Macbeth is bound to be as evil as them because we know that Lady Macbeth and the weird sisters are evil,......
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