Greed and Fear

In the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, greed for power and wealth results in not only the destruction of oneself, but in the others connected to that someone. Greed controls the lives of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth after the prophecy of the three weird sisters. As a result of the destruction, both show signs of fear, though Macbeth’s fear is more visible than Lady Macbeth’s. Fear motivates most people to act upon matters …

…many appearances in my essays) has many parallels to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth…Billy, Nomica, and Billy’s wife. Because of Billy’s mattress tag stealing fiasco, he ended up with his head in a box in the far off lands of Olneyville. Macbeth’s greed and then fear eventually lead to his death and his head on a pole in Scotland…not too unlike Olneyville. “All hail Macbeth! that shall be king…” (I.iii.50)