Concise Macbeth Character Study

<Tab/>Macbeth Character Study<Tab/>Andrew Reis At the start of the play, Macbeth is portrayed as a loyal soldier to the king. But his loyalty towards the king is converted elsewhere, but this was not upon his own judgement but by the prophecies which the witch's foretold and by his wife Lady Macbeth. The marriage between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth is based on love from Macbeth's …

…the change throughout the play can be noticed by his use of words at the beginning of the play, "The service and the loyalty I owe, in doing it, pays itself" (I, IV), to the end of the play, " I will not yield to kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet," (V, VII). The transformation of noble thane to the tyrant he became was slow, but Macbeth received the evil tyrant deserved his tyrannic death.