The Virus of Evil in Shakespeare's Macbeth

The Virus of Evil in Shakespeare's Macbeth For one to fully understand Macbeth's decent into hell, one must

define evil and have an idea of how the process of evil effects the

decent. One may relate the process of evil to a virus. Evil is a thing

that one chooses to come into their life, and if one does choose for

it to be a part of their life, the person's life and themselves starts

to fall into the wrath's of evil. The process of evil first must

choose something or someone to infect. Then evil slowly, but

eventually, will take over its victim. If evil does not over take it's

victim, it will cause one of two things, the victim self-destruct or

the victim will simply fall into death. During William Shakespeare's

Macbeth, Macbeth encounters both of these things, which leads to his

death and finally the last step of the process of evil, which is

living in hell.

At the beginning of Macbeth, the witches (which are the main source of

evil in Macbeth) tell Macbeth that he will one day be king, which

causes Macbeth to do anything he can to make this prophecy come true.

For example, Banquo tells Macbeth, "You greet present grace and great

prediction Of noble having and of royal hope, That he seems rapt

withal. To me you speak not. If you can look into the seeds of time

And say which grain will grow and which will not." It is here when

Macbeth begins to experience evil.