Macbeth: Good And Evil In One Human Heart

Part I of Essay
In Macbeth, Shakespeare was exploring the great capacity for both good and evil that exist in one human heart. He demonstrates an epitome of this through the main character of the play, Macbeth. Although in the beginning, Macbeth only displays the good within his heart b ....

Part II of Essay
.... with the choice, should he let the witches prophecies realize themselves, or should he take steps to achieve them. Under the cloaking shadows of his skins, Macbeth hides his one weakness-that is ambition. His wife knows of his ambition and stirs to act on it. She calls him a “coward” and states that in killing the King, Macbeth will “be so much more than man.” Macbeth relents, telling his wife to “mock the time with fairest show,” and kills the king. In doing so, Macbeth unrobed himself of all that is good in human soul-kindness, honor, a ....