In the play Macbeth,by William Shakespeare, the main character, Macbeth, gets himself into a great deal trouble. In the beginning of the play Macbeth is an innocent character until his wife persuades him to, "catch the nearest way, no matter what the cost may be". Macbeths greed towards becoming king of Cawdor and making sure he will keep his throne is the cause of his demise. Throughout the play Macbeth's Ambition changes his characteristics. After killing King Duncan, Macbeth gradually becomes more unfeeling and loses his human kindness. Macbeth gets so paranoid that he starts killing and seeing things which brings his end. .
In the begging of the play, Macbeth is a naturally compassionate person that does not have the evil characteristics to kill. However, he is married to a very ambitious woman who changes his natural compassion into a relentless greed. The reader knows that Macbeth is a good person when his wife states this. Specifically, his wife does not think that he is capable of becoming a king because he, "is to full o'th" milk of human kindness" (1.5. 16). In Macbeths soliloquy he knows that he is doing evil,.
Bloody instructions, which being taught, return .
To plague th" inventor I have no spur .
to prick the sides of my intent, but only .
Vaulting ambition which o"erleaps itself .
And Falls on th" other- (1.7. 9-28) .
He tells the reader that he knows that what goes around comes around and that he has no reason to do this but his ambition forces him to. Macbeth realizes what will happen to him if he goes on with this. In the begging of the play Macbeth is clearly a good character. .
As the play goes on Lady Macbeth turns him into a murderer. She progressively replaces his human kindness and makes him an unfeeling and ambitious murderer. As the play proceeds she tells him many things that convince him to go on with the assassination of Duncan. Specifically, she tells Macbeth to "Catch the nearest way" (1.
