Macbeth

“Macbeth is a man born to leadership but unfortunately influenced and destroyed by evil forces”. Discuss Macbeth, one of Shakespeare’s timeless classics and most famous tragedies is the story of a virtuous man, corrupted by power and greed. Macbeth is the tragic hero who is led down an unescapable road of doom by outside forces. In this case there are several influences or forces including his own wife, Lady Macbeth, the three witches, and …

…caused by a combination of forces, supernatural, external, and internal. The supernatural forces are represented by the three witches and the magic powers or black magic they possess. Lady Macbeth is the outside force that pushes Macbeth towards performing the ghastly deeds. Macbeth's own ambition acts as the deciding power in bringing him to his downfall. The fatal combination of the three forces produced the tragic result, and brings Shakespeare’s masterpiece to a conclusion.