![]() Macbeth’s internal conflict leads to his downfall and eventual death. His conscience constantly reminds him of the crimes he has committed and the innocent people who have died because of him. Macbeth wants to be king, but he also knows that it will come at a high price. Macbeth’s internal conflict is a result of his ambition and his conscience. Macbeth is then crowned the king and his reign is full of violence and bloodshed as he tries to retain his power. Macbeth struggles with his conscience and eventually kills Duncan out of fear that he will be caught. Macbeth’s wife, Lady Macbeth, also encourages him to kill Duncan, the current king, in order to take the throne for themselves. ![]() Macbeth is conflicted with this information because he knows that he would have to commit many crimes in order to take the throne. Although it can be debated what Macbeth's actions were truly caused by, I believe it can be inferred that both external and internal forces played a part in Macbeth's decision to kill his own cousin.Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespeare that tells the story of Macbeth, a Thane of Scotland who is told by three witches that he will become the King of Scotland. It's also true that if Macbeth didn't want to kill Duncan he wouldn't have, showing that internal forces were taking place. This shows that deep down Macbeth must have truly wanted to kill Duncan and become king. On the other hand, Macbeth hallucinated a floating dagger over Duncan's bedroom causing him to believe that it was his duty to kill the king. She taunted him and made him feel weak for not being man enough to do it. It could be external because Lady Macbeth did give him the idea. For example, when Macbeth struggles with whether or not to kill his cousin Duncan, readers questions his reason for doing it. Sometimes readers are uncertain on whether Macbeth's actions are motivated by pressure from other people or from his own character. In Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, the main character faces many internal and external forces. Through out the play the internals lead to externals, or are spurred into action through external pushes. The internal visions he sees convince him that he needs to externally kill duncan. She played with his feelings through bringing up the idea of power while seducing him. As the conflict between internal and external over power was going on inside of him, he had his wife pushing him externally in the direction she wanted. He also had the internal love for his wife and trust in her. The external action done upon him was the push needed to set the internal thoughts to begin turning into an external action he did himself (killing duncan). The external force of the prophecies and the external idea that he would gain more power, and even become king, was a slight push that made him begin thinking more about the internal hunger he had for power. He was already wanting power before he even heard the prophecies, because if he had not then it would have not occurred to him to do any harm to duncan. Macbeth's actions are both internal and external throughout the play. This is not to say, however, that he was innocent, because he wasn’t, but his guilt comes from negative thoughts implanted by other people. They were ideas planted in his head and reinforced over time. Having the power he could have dangled in front of him by the witches, and with temptation from his wife, Macbeth made decisions that were almost unwilling - though it may seem like he did want to make said decisions since he carried them out - because they weren’t his. He became disloyal only when he found out that the witches’ prophecies were in fact true, and that not only would he be king, but so would Banquo’s sons. The only reason Macbeth ever got to be Thane of Cawdor is because he was loyal to the king and did his job accordingly. Had the witches never prophesied to him of his imminent second thaneship, Macbeth would only have been surprised when he got to be Thane of Cawdor - not murderous for a kingship. Macbeth’s motivations for his actions are primarily, and some might even say, solely external.
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