Theme Of Isolation In Macbeth

In the Book Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Macbeth constantly becomes isolated from everyone because of his evil intentions of becoming King. Ever since Macbeth has become King, Macbeth has started to do whatever it takes to accomplish his feat. He thoroughly throughout the story demonstrates that people do not matter in his life, like his best friend Banquo. Another person he isolated himself from is his own wife Lady Macbeth and eventually he slowly starts to isolate from himself as well.

At the starting of the story, Macbeth and future victim Banquo bump into three odd looking witches which tell Macbeth three things. The three witches tell Macbeth that he will become King of Cawdor, become in Glamis, and he shall become King hereafter. After this exciting news his evil intentioned wife, Lady Macbeth, convinces the brave warrior who has just been promoted, Macbeth, to murder the powerful King Duncan. As Macbeth becomes successful in Murdering the King, Macbeth starts to become more careless regards to his best friend, Banquo. Because of selfishness, Macbeth has started to think about himself and he is not

worried about everyone. After Macbeth is done killing the King, Lady Macbeth asks Macbeth to hand over:”the daggers [as] the sleeping and the dead are but sleeping pictures”(II,ii,69-70). This is the starting of Macbeth true side and also where he isolated himself from one of his best friends banquo.

As read further, Macbeth is planning to murder the disloyal Banquo. Banquo comes over to the King and Macbeth is going on a horse ride and wants Banquo to accompany along. Macbeth will arrive; “till suppertime alone, [until] then, God be with you” (III,ii, 45). Macbeth also hires some murders to kill Banquo since he does not want anyone to know that he is behind all of this drama from the starting. He negatively instigates the murderers that Banquo was using them for his own benefit and that he should be murdered. Macbeth is fully aware of the plan and consequences but Lady Macbeth is not. Macbeth does not care about Lady Macbeth since she was the one who put Macbeth in the mess in the first place, and he does not want Lady Macbeth to ruin his plans so he decides to not tell Lady Macbeth. Instead he convinces that he is just taking Banquo on a horse ride. The murder of Banquo has left Macbeth to isolate himself from his own wife.

Lastly after Macbeth has caused lots of drama and regrets for his actions he starts to cause himself harm as well and he slowly starts to isolate himself from everyone since he does not have anyone to support him, and the people he was friends with are against him and they want to dethrone him before he can cause more harm to the once united Scotland.

At the end of the book, Macbeth causes himself to be more in pain and if fed up of his actions. He considers: “life but a walking shadow”(VI,vi,27). Macbeth just wants to give up on life and he signifies life as a play that is told by someone meaningless. At the end of the play Macbeth is killed by Macduff and Macbeth words do come true since he did not care about life since everyone he had loved at one point had left him in a big way and he had no one to support him, which lead to the isolation of

himself.

In conclusion Macbeth is a character who is a brave warrior and enjoys life, but his misery causing wife told him to chose the wrong way and that lead to the isolation of his best friend Banquo. Next Macbeth feels he should not tell his wife this time, and he kills his best friend and he also isolated himself from his wife Lady Macbeth. At the end of the book Macbeth is fed up of everything he has done and eventually he loses his wife and he considers life to be nothing other than a fiction and eventually is killed by the victorious Maduff who once again brings harmony to the peaceful Scotland.