Macbeth 1

• Initially brave warrior and
• Influenced by the witches leads to guilt change through the play
• Questions himself about killing the king by being persuaded lady Macbeth
• 1. Ambitious
  2. creul
  3. Gullible
  4. Power hungry
  5. Remorseful
• Theme

  1. Ambition
  2. good versus evil
  3. Appearance versus reality
• Complex character who changes throughout the play
• Having murdered, he finds himself a spiral of evil from which he can see no escape
• His actions become less heroic and more cowardly as he continues to murder and terrorise others in order to hold onto his power
• Towards the end of the play when he realises that he is doomed, he briefly returns to his old heroic self
• murder to get what he wants