Final Macbeth LRJ

Chue Meng Vang



Ms. Peifer



English 10 IB



March 4, 2009



Final Macbeth LRJ



The questions Shakespeare asks us to consider is: Is getting power all there is and is it worth it? How far will people go to obtain power and what will they do to get it? How does greed change people?



The questions that Shakespeare answers is: How far will people go to obtain power and how far will they go to achieve it? and How does greed change people? Shakspeare answers the first question bt the themes in his play and the acts of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. In act 1 scene 7 both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth conspire to kill Duncan. "When we have marked with blood those sleepy two of his own chamber and used their very daggars, that they done 't?

"Who dares recieve it other, as we shall make our griefs and clamor roar upon his death?" (1, 7, 86-91) Throughout the entire book we see a change in both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth from their starting characteristics. In act 1 scene 7 Macbeth doesn't want to kill Duncan. In act 3 and 4 Macbeth wants to kill Macduff, his whole family and Banquo because they were both in his way. Macbeth does all of this for personal gain. Lady Macbeth actually had the opposite affect. She in the beginning wanted to have Duncan dead and in the end was filled with so much guilt that she took her own life. Her guilt was observed in act 5 scene 1 by the doctor and a servant.