Why does Shakespeare introduce Macbeth as such a nice, good guy and then changes

Question:It is done to develop irony... but it also makes the audience develop a connection with Macbeth. If he started out as a "bad guy," we would not get as involved in the story because we would not be able to identify with him.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: It is done to develop irony... but it also makes the audience develop a connection with Macbeth. If he started out as a "bad guy," we would not get as involved in the story because we would not be able to identify with him.

It's called dramatic irony. Helps develop the character.

Irony.

just to develope a story
so that it reaches everybody.........

Because he IS a good person, but with a weak heart...that's why he was corrupted by both his wife and the three witches...his greedy heart won him over.

It shows how a human can change with they have a hunger for power.

YES! YES HE DOES!

yeh i suppose its the use of irony.... Shakespear protrayed Macbeth how people really are.... He was a little ahead of his time...

Most people these days start out wonderful, and then change for some reason or another due to various circumstances in their lives....

why does any writer put a twist on various characters? it keeps it interesting!

He does this for two main reasons. Firstly to set a tone and theme around the social hierarchy of the play, in that Macbeth is loyal and therefore serving as a man used to exemplify the political system of Scotland. Secondly, and more importantly it is Shakespeare sends Macbeth on a downward spiral where more and more killing is necessary, where better to start this quick demise than at the top. Macbeth was respected at the beginning, and at the end, before his death he is his own antithesis. From Champion to enemy.

Macbeth starts off as a regular guy however his life is changed by circumstances and the people in his life. These things change personality

If you study the Story, It is Lady Mac B that is the Instigator. MacBeth is actually a Verry Meek and Henpecked Husband that is trying to Please his wife. And Durring the time when he Kills Duncan. He is full of remorse and really Upset. His wife basically tells him He is a Wimp and has No Cohones. To please his lady he will do anything Even Kill his best friend Banquo. Whome he later sees at a Dinner in his Minds eye and is agian filled with remorse.Only Agian to be told by the wife. " Your an Idiot"
How many times in our life have we been a fool for love and puppeted by the ambition of Others ? This is the thing.

After Killing Duncan MacBeth says he hears voices saying. "Sleep No More,MacBeth hath Murdered Sleep...NO MORE"
So Macbeth is so distrought over Killing for his lady for her lust for power he cannot sleep,and this poor depraved of sleep,Love Torn fool finally cracks.

Well thats my spin.

Gnome

Because the story demanded it.

It's to show the frailty of his character and how easily tragedy can change a person.

there's a term in literature called a "static or flat character". these characters for the most part stay consistent in whatever play or book your reading. usually the supporting or one-line characters are flat characters. if the main character was flat, no one would watch the show. and in Shakespeare's time, if the play wasnt amazing within the first 10 mins, the audience would have thrown rotten tomatoes at the actors and shakespeare himself. and back then some believed the rotten tomatoes to be poisonous. shakespeare had to keep the story interesting. thats why he opened it with the three witches, it immediately got the attention of the audience. and if macbeth never changed throughout the whole play, the audience wouldve been bored out of their minds!

hope this helped.

lucy.