Macbeth Identites

The story of "Macbeth" can be broken down into three separate identities: individual identity, dual identity, and social identity. Individual identity is Macbeth independently thinking he knows himself. Dual identity is Macbeth and, his love interest, Lady Macbeth being united and acting as one during the play. Social identity is social groups--the three witches and Macbeth--being joined as one with each other and then divided at the end of the play. The first identity in …

…to her suicidal death and Macbeth's eventual death because she persuaded and manipulated Macbeth into murdering Duncan. In this play, Lady Macbeth aided and abetted Macbeth while Macbeth was the perpetrator. The witches' prophecies that came true made Macbeth very arrogant, which was the eventual cause of Macbeth's death. In Macbeth, all three identities unfold showing the corrupting nature of unchecked ambition, the relationship between cruelty and masculinity, and the difference between royalty and tyranny.