Greed Quotes In Macbeth

Risks lead to many things, adrenaline rushes and financial success, but with a risk comes the chance something can go horribly wrong and lead to possible failure or death. In William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the protagonist macbeth takes the risk of murder and arrogance to get to the top of scotland's social hierarchy, which inevitably leads to his death. Throughout the play Macbeth takes on many different changes and relies on different things that push him to take metaphorical leaps of faith against those who hinder him from taking and holding his foretold place as scotland's king.

Macbeth had been encountered by three witches that told him and Banquo of their future, banquo's son is to be king someday, and macbeth was to become king and take Duncan's place only if he were to kill him. Initially macbeth wanted to let things play out on their own, but his wife Lady Macbeth was fixated on the crown and wanted end Duncan's life after he came to greet Macbeth at their home. He was to be a kind host but in the end take Duncan's crown by framing the drunken guards and playing

innocent as his wife had wanted, “bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue: look like an innocent flower but be the serpent under it” (page 43, Lady Macbeth)as he took Duncan's life while he slept, the guards began to wake and pray, so macbeth later risked suspicion by taking their lives as well. Macbeth took duncan's life due to his wife's and his own lust for power but risked their lives, respect and status to gain leadership of the country.

Macbeth's kingship quickly turned to a ruthless tyranny, however he still felt the fear of being overruled by Banquo's son.

Macbeth twisted the minds of two poor desperate people and sent them after banquo and his son. To avoid the risk of getting his hands dirty and losing his and banquo's mutual friends, he explained it to the murderers “though i could with barefaced power sweep him from my sight and bid my will avouch it, yet i must not, for certain friends that are both his and mine whose loves i may not drop.” (page 119, Macbeth). Banquo's son Fleance escaped and fled the murder scene unscaved. Macbeth risked his dignity as king and the respect of mutual friends between him and banquo in order to kill off his fear of being taken down and with banquo went out one of the lights of good in the play, which allowed macbeth to hide his crimes from the people furthermore by calling upon

darkness.

Macbeth went to see the witches due to the need to get new prophecies, consequently he became reliant on prophecies. The prophecies were given in the form of apparition, a head, a bloody child, and a crowned boy. Each gave him a different prophecy causing Macbeth to forget his own mortality. Macbeth had ended his fear and became arrogant and relied on the prophecies ciphered message to allow him to think he was unstoppable, his arrogance was a risk fueled by the idea he could not be killed by any man born of a woman though he did not think of the prophecies were being told by equivocators, Macbeth's trusting of the witches was his biggest mistake throughout the play due to them being the cause of him gambling with people's lives in order to obtain and hold his position of king of scotland