Shakespeare and his three witches

LUST & LOSS Macbeth’s lust for power and his eventual loss Macbeth’s fate was a result of his own doing. The play begins with Macbeth winning on the battlefield and ends with him dying in combat. He took a risk he forebode wouldn’t end well and that led to his shameful end. So why do people take risks that they know would lead to their own destruction? Is ambition the driving force, or greed or, are both the same? William Shakespeare has shown the several shades of human nature through all of his characters and Macbeth is no different. The journey of changes in a human’s nature/personality is often the doing of external forces. Macbeth is the story of the temptation of a good man by evils. The witches’ prophecy and Lady Macbeth’s irreligiously cold triggering led to Macbeth’s change from a noble kinsman who respected his king to one who murdered the same king to gain power. Macbeth is not a Manichaean vision of man. The witches prophesize Macbeth becoming Than...