t try to redeem himself in anyway and lost all traces of conscience. Words such as “ingratitude”, “treason”, and “murder” do not good deep enough for Macbeth. (The Perspective of Value 98) Immorality within him is so great that he permits the ultimate atrocity to occur. A command issued by Macbeth is carried out and Macduff’s wife and children are murdered. This act displays how morally corrupt Macbeth is. Macduff’s family became that target of Macbeth’s underlying paranoia. Everyone around Macbeth became a threat and an obstacle to remove from his path of destruction and evil that he had created. Macduff was no exception. A traitor can repent and be pardoned before God, and still be subject to the penalties of man’s justice (The Perspective of Value 97). This in its entirety is what Macbeth ultimately feared. To abolish this fear he had to remove anyone who could issue a penalty for the crimes he had committed. Macbeth would have continued on his murderous rampage had he not been stopped. He never gave a second thought to what he had done or the lives he had destroyed. He was a man who aided evil and endorsed darkness. His conscience was defeated when he plunged the dagger in Duncan’s back and would never again surface. Elsewhere corruption and immorality was also being spread to another character with an ambition and desire to gain power. Luckily for Macbeth it was occurring among his ally Lady Macbeth. She too became reversed the moment she received the letter from her husband speaking of the weird sisters. The witches had also influenced her and she allowed evil to cloud her conscience. She too could see only obstacles in her way and plotted with Macbeth to destroy her King Duncan. The audience witnessed how immoral she had become when she stated “How tender’ tis the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, have pluck̵...
