Macbeth Final Essay

     The book Macbeth written by Shakespeare allows readers to feel and think different emotions and ideas from the beginning to the end of the book. Macbeth himself stops at nothing until he accomplishes his goal until he can’t go on anymore. And in this case, the only motive that actually stopped Macbeth was to kill him and end his life. Throughout the story, you learn that the extremes he goes; for example killing others, is not even enough until he is at the top. The story, Macbeth, revolves around a society where greed can overpower ones desire for their ambition. 

     The first part of the book makes you feel as if Macbeth is weak because of an event that happened to try and make his wife happy. In the story, Lady Macbeth plans, "When Duncan is asleep - and he’ll sleep soundly after his hard day’s journey - I’ll ply his two officers with so much drink their memories will be fogged and their brains addled. When they are drunk and sleeping like pigs, what can’t we do to the unguarded Duncan? What can’t we blame on his sodden officers? They’ll get the blame for our great murder.” (1:7:pg.59) At first, Macbeth was scared and hesitant on killing Duncan because he didn’t really want to, although his wife forced him to do it. Which showed that her mind was more focused on her goal than her husband's feelings about the idea. This gives us a perspective of such a drastic goal from a very persistent lady whose measures went as low to killing a person to get what she wants, which is sad because she’s probably a baby herself to do it .

     During the middle of the story gives you second thoughts on who really is the guilty party to get what they want. Shakespeare wrote as Macbeth, "That's that. Banquo, if your soul is bound for heaven, it will reach there tonight!” (3:1:pg.103). This quote shows that Macbeth wants a person dead to become King, it’s not his wife who did the planning now. He is almost like his wife in the beginning, instead, he hired murderers to do the deed for him; just like his wife wanting him to kill Duncan instead of her. This perspective of Macbeth shows that greed can get in the way of one's ambition if they are that desperate, which is just as sad seeing that he went so low to actually hiring people.

     At the end of the story, it proves that a person will risk their life to getting what they want because their desire for that one goal is all that matters to them in the end. From Macbeth’s perspective, Shakespeare wrote, "I'll fight till the flesh is hacked from my bones! Give me my armor!” (5:3:pg. 185). This quote shows that Macbeth will not give up until he has no flesh left on him, in other words, he’s willing to fight till his death because he’s come so far which motivates him even more to do so. Which is highly comprehensible seeing that at first it was his wife, now him, and now him putting his life on the line to give it his all. He may feel as though giving up means that he has plotted, killed others, and hired to kill others for him will be for nothing so he naturally puts the famous quote “over my dead body” into great use.

     A society where greed can overpower ones desire for their goal happens, believe it or not. It’s not some ancient feeling that has never been experienced only in books or by a human being before. Macbeth shows that people will go to low measures to get what they always desired. Lady Macbeth wanted her husband to kill Duncan at first, then Macbeth wanted Banquo to be eliminated out of the picture so he hired murderers to do his deed, and now it came to the point that nearly all the remaining characters are against him so he gives it his all seeing that its all or nothing at the end of the book. Everyone has goals all throughout their lifetime whether it is big or small, but it is up to them on the process as to how they will want reach it.