Macbeth and the Witches

Macbeth by William Shakespeare tells the story of how one mans love of power leads him to murder and madness. Macbeth is a great soldier, a man that is fit to be king. He was “ thought most worthy the government of a realm”. However, it is his ambition to be King, spurred on by his wife and the witches that finally lead him to destruction and we are left wondering how such a “noble’ man …

…could commit murder to achieve what the witches propose, he puts aside the idea. However, by the second act , he no longer attempts to stifle his conscience , and seems to accept that the murder of Duncan is inevitable.. “ I go and it is done: the bell invites me “ Macbeth of course was free to resist, but it seems that without the powers of evil that the witches represent, he wouldnot have done it. Bibliography None