rown? The three witches did say he was going to become King. To Macbeth the word success means, in effect, what happens ought to happen. So with this meaning of the word ‘success’, Macbeth was able to rationalize his murdering King Duncan. Shakespeare puts it simply in the first scene saying “Fair is foul, and foul is fair”(I, 1, 11), foreshadowing the idea of evil as a means of success. Macbeth achieves his goal, power and Kingship, by committing unforgivable crimes against everyone in the Kingdom. These crimes are a part of the destruction that he causes. Barbara Everett says “For the man of success there is power but no future, no existence in the natural.”(238), which fits Macbeth character quite well. He is successful and he has power, though to keep this power he continues to do evil things. It is also true of Macbeth for the reason that he has no existence in the natural after he murders King Duncan. This is where evil starts to take control of his life. Macbeth is a man who needs to be in control of his own fate. He desires Kingship and more then that he desires the power that goes along with being King.Lady Macbeth plays a major role in destruction, by encouraging Macbeth to kill King Duncan. She even goes as far as planning out how he could kill him. She drugs the guards and Macbeth sneaks in and Kills King Duncan. Macbeth now full of rage and adrenaline kills the guards, showing that he is starting to lose control.The Three Witches tempt him wtih the idea of power and alude to the method of gaining this power. According to the L.C. Knights “The equivocal nature of temptation, the commerce with phantoms consequent upon false choice, the resulting sense of unreality, which has yet such power to “smother” vital function, the unnaturalness of evil, and the realtion between disintegration in the individual and disorder in the larger social organism”,showin...
