Macbeth

            "What beast was't, then, that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; and to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man. Nor time nor place did then adhere, and yet you would make both. Then have made themselves, and that their fitness now does unmake you. I have given suck, and know how tender "tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this" , this was said by Lady Macbeth to her husband. Macbeth is a man who has slain armies, though now that he has doubts of killing one man, the king, his wife looks down upon him. Not allowing himself to be labeled a coward or just looking for the favor of his wife he decides he must go through with the murder, "I am settled and bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show. False face must hide what the false heart doth know." Through this swaying of opinion in Macbeth, Shakespeare's belief that incidents occurring, or actions taken around us can lead us down the path of evil is shown.
             While some things Macbeth had thought and said, may have seemed he had bad intentions from early on, it seems that until he receives a final push from his wife he had no intention of murdering anyone. He was generally a good and noble man fighting for his country, only ever showing slight hints that he may under correct conditions resort to malice and spite. "All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis! All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee Thane of Cawdor! All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!" , this is how Macbeth's journey into inevitable darkness began, when he was led to believe that since some of the witches predictions have some true then he might be destined to fulfill the rest. "Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor .