Response to Macbeth - First Act

How do we deal with conflicting elements within our personality?

Every individual has a single personality, some have a very strong well defined one and others have a more malleable kind that can sometimes be adjusted to fit the situation or other people around, this malleability can be good or bad. Its good when the person uses it to fit in and be able to help someone or get something out of it, but it can be dangerous when the person's lack of personality let this person susceptible to being controlled by others. Particularly in Macbeth, he had a really hard decision to make, he could kill the king to become the next one or he could choose not to have blood in his hands. In the beginning of the play I think Macbeth was a pretty loyal and honourable man, so I believe that the person who was corrupting his mind was his wife Lady Macbeth, who was really ambitious and wanted power for her husband and herself. Even though Macbeth was controlled by his wife I don’t think this means his personality was not strong or that he wasn’t noble, the problem here is that he really loved his wife and thus tried to do what she desired the most. In the end this conflict inside him was so big, so strong that it led him to madness, but before that we could notice that he couldn’t sleep anymore or concentrate in anything. That shows how dangerous playing with other people’s feelings and values can be.