all originated from purely external factors? Macbeth, somewhere in the back of his mind understands that the evil comes from inside of his soul that is why he hates Banquo, whose soul is clean.And finally, in Act V, Scene V, Macbeth appears as fallen man. He is not human anymore, he is an irrational creature. If previously he had some traces of emotions, now they are all gone. His wife, whom he loved dearly, which can be seen from the fact that he cannot wait to see her and writes her letter, describing every occurrence, in the beginning of the play, does not mean anything to him anymore. He stepped over his loyalty when he killed the King, he betrayed his friendship, when he ordered the murder of Banquo, and finally, he cut off the last link. His wife died, and all he has to say is "She should have died hereafter." Not a note of sadness or any kind of emotion, except maybe, annoyance that he had to be bothered by this all together. In fact, life itself does not mean anything to him. It is empty, because Macbeth is "cured" of fear and emotions. Life is not real anymore, just a period of time filled with emptiness. "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." These soliloquies show Macbeth as a real man versus a crazy notion of a human being. By thinking that he could become a part of the supernatural, he ends up being less human. What's more important that it was his decision to make, he was not a puppet of some higher powers, rather he himself invoked these powers to come to him. That means that real drama was taking place within Macbeth, not outside. And the fact that Macbeth's struggle is still understood today, and the play itself is still being enjoyed after hundreds of years after it was written, again just proves how talented Shakespeare really was. ...
