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Question:The analysis of Macbeth?
Please explain his personal attributes,actions,influences,and with whom he most interacts and the significance to the play.

In simpler terms,how is he critical to the development of the plot of the play.

sry guys,i dont have time to do this,my grandfather was in the hospital all weekend,and i gotta leave again.
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The analysis of Macbeth?
Please explain his personal attributes,actions,influences,and with whom he most interacts and the significance to the play.

In simpler terms,how is he critical to the development of the plot of the play.

sry guys,i dont have time to do this,my grandfather was in the hospital all weekend,and i gotta leave again.
10 pts for best answer

hey..sry bout your grandfather...but anyways...
Macbeth is a perfect tragic hero...as he has all good qualities except for one which results in his downfall...
Because we first hear of Macbeth in the wounded captain’s account of his battlefield valor, our initial impression is of a brave and capable warrior. This perspective is complicated, however, once we see Macbeth interact with the three witches. We realize that his physical courage is joined by a consuming ambition and a tendency to self-doubt—the prediction that he will be king brings him joy, but it also creates inner turmoil. These three attributes—bravery, ambition, and self-doubt—struggle for mastery of Macbeth throughout the play. Shakespeare uses Macbeth to show the terrible effects that ambition and guilt can have on a man who lacks strength of character. We may classify Macbeth as irrevocably evil, but his weak character separates him from Shakespeare’s great villains—Iago in Othello, Richard III in Richard III, Edmund in King Lear—who are all strong enough to conquer guilt and self-doubt. Macbeth, great warrior though he is, is ill equipped for the psychic consequences of crime.
Before he kills Duncan, Macbeth is plagued by worry and almost aborts the crime. It takes Lady Macbeth’s steely sense of purpose to push him into the deed. After the murder, however, her powerful personality begins to disintegrate, leaving Macbeth increasingly alone. He fluctuates between fits of fevered action, in which he plots a series of murders to secure his throne, and moments of terrible guilt (as when Banquo’s ghost appears) and absolute pessimism (after his wife’s death, when he seems to succumb to despair). These fluctuations reflect the tragic tension within Macbeth: he is at once too ambitious to allow his conscience to stop him from murdering his way to the top and too conscientious to be happy with himself as a murderer. As things fall apart for him at the end of the play, he seems almost relieved—with the English army at his gates, he can finally return to life as a warrior, and he displays a kind of reckless bravado as his enemies surround him and drag him down. In part, this stems from his fatal confidence in the witches’ prophecies, but it also seems to derive from the fact that he has returned to the arena where he has been most successful and where his internal turmoil need not affect him—namely, the battlefield. Unlike many of Shakespeare’s other tragic heroes, Macbeth never seems to contemplate suicide: “Why should I play the Roman fool,” he asks, “and die / On mine own sword?” (V.x.1–2). Instead, he goes down fighting, bringing the play full circle: it begins with Macbeth winning on the battlefield and ends with him dying in combat. He fights like any noble leader, its just ambition that destroys him.

How is he critical to the development of the plot of the play, well his ambitions again, his need to take things in his hands, he also is very gullible to believe the witches and well he doesn't leave anything to fate. Well once Macbeth kills Duncan, his conscience bothers him too much but after that his conscience dies as after that he commits more and more crimes, he gets his friend Banquo murdered, he gets Lady Macduff and her children murdered. This tendency of his makes him the play so tragic.

He interacts most with the witches and Lady Macbeth, he soon ends up becoming as ruthless as Lady Macbeth was in the beginning and he does start being evil like the witches. This change in his character is the reason the play is formed. The play is basically about how Macbeth is destroyed, his downfall. Macbeth also starts to speak like Lady Macbeth calling on the night and now he doesn't need her help when killing Banquo as he tells her that she must keep peace and be unaware and not bother herself.

i hope this helps...i took some parts from sparknotes, you can just rephrase some parts. good luck and i hope your grandfather gets better soon...if you need help with macbeth let me know...its know it inside out...but in this much tym this is the best i could come up with

read the damn book man.

yeah im not gonna do your work for you and if anyone actually answers to you then they are just as stupid as you are.

sparknotes is the answer..

god i hate those kinds of essays

anyway, one idea i remember:
his initial passive response to Lady Macbeth's attempt to lure him to murder Duncan was the first of what led to his downfall..

Well, Macbeth is a man plagued by fate, bad choices and the one he most interacts with - probably Lady Macbeth - is not the most darling of a role model.

Macbeth develops just as the play develops. He has a tragic, downward spiral towards being an evil character to down-right maniac at the end, determined to see himself succeed as the witches told him he would. He becomes blinded by success perhaps.

Also the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth is my favourite of all the Shakespeares (Except maybe Coriolanus and his over-bearing mother). It is more romantic than Romeo and Juliet. Think about it: throughout the play, they kill for eachother, for what the other wants. They stick by eachother, determined to reap the rewards they were fortold. Then they suffer together when things go pearshaped. And when Lady Macbeth kills herself, Macbeth is genuinely grief-stricken and goes to fight with nothing left to lose.

Perhaps you can use the Macbeth/Lady Macbeth plot to illustrate the development of both character and play.

I hope this helps, it's been a while since I read the Scottish Play

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the play was originally made for king james to explain the royal lineage after the death of elizibeth
macbeths character developement goes from extremly good and loyal to kingdom to greedy and paranoid
influenced by the witches and there predictions & his wife
[way back when women were like on the lower levels of the hierachy so this is like his veiw on the matter, your opinion if his pro or con is your choice]
he does everything [bad] he can to keep his high position which eventually leads to his head getting choped of
witches get jealous or something and give him misleading predictions towards the end giving him a false sense of security
basically macbeth is the play his actions help prove king james point the fleance was supposed to be king but macbeths influence made it other wise
its really hard to help you over the internet
i hope i helped ne way

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/ma...

God luck with your grandpa!