Macbeth's Failure

Macbeth's Failure

1. Ambition for power

   • On a relentless search for power, willing to destroy those in his way
   • acts of the witches prophecy in order to achieve maximum power
   • isolates Lady Macbeth, who once was his queen, in the search of power

2. lack of atunement

   • Not a good reader of people
   • He interprets things literally
     • acts on the witches prophecy
   • Soldier Nature - eye hand imagery
     • One could argue that he was a killing machine because of his warring nature but really he still HAS a conscious

3. He has it all in the beginning... he "falls" from grace

   • In the beginning, he would be classified as gracious... What is the turning point

4. Macbeth looses his insanity -- what causes this shift?