Theme Of Death Attraction In Macbeth

Death Attraction

In most popular films, the good guy or the most favorable character always seems to die first and leaves a huge impact on other characters. This attracts and keep people intrigued to pay and watch those films. With that being said, Alfred Hancock states that characters are more important dead than alive, which is true to a certain extent. William Shakespeare is an excellent example for this statement because his most popular plays are tragedies that involves tragic deaths. One of them is the infamous MacBeth, where as though Macbeth wanted to fulfill his and Lady MacBeth’s ambition to murder King Duncan and become King of Scotland. He did everything in his power to get where he wanted, including killing his own best friend, Banquo, who stood by his side no matter what.

Greed is one hell of a sin, it can either be a benefit to people or cause them to have a major

downfall. In this case for MacBeth it took a turn for the worse, after hearing the three witches prophecies which was,”All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!”(Act 1,Scene 3), they were announcing that he will become King of Scotland. So, instantly his greed grew out of control, at that point he immediately thought about murdering King Duncan. By him deciding this, it affected everyone in the play including himself, which is where his downfall starting building up.
Even though MacBeth was hesitant to commit the act and ready to back out of it, he was pressured by the one and only, Lady MacBeth.

He wasn’t really sure if he should murder King Duncan,the text states, "Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return / To plague the inventor" (Act 1, Scene 7), MacBeth is saying that when teaching someone to murder, they usually end up coming back to murder you. He reminisces all the battles he fought for the King and all the men he killed, just to end up taking what he learned and applying it to the King.

After the deed is done, MacDuff is the first to find King Duncan dead in his bed, at that point everyone was devastated about his death. King Duncan was favored by all his people, he was even more admired after his death. Although King Duncan is kind and benevolent, he is also too trusting, he puts too much trust into people who are traders, for instance MacBeth. Maybe killing King Duncan wasn’t so bad, if he would have stayed alive his kingdom probably would have been in crumbles by now because of him being too gullible and

trusting.
Now that King Duncan got out the way, MacBeth headed on to better things to become the new King of Scotland. The three witches told Banquo his prophecy which was, "Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none: /So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!" (Act 1, Scene 3), he won’t become King but his heirs would become Kings. After MacBeth heard this he was intimidated because he wanted to become King and Banquo’s heirs will ruin his plan, so he decided Banquo has to go. He is too much of a coward to murder Banquo on his own, so he hires three assassins to kill Banquo and his son Fleance. Luckily, Fleance got away, at this point MacBeth knew he was in trouble already, his original plan was to make sure none of Banquo’s heirs become King.