Macbeth, Shakespeare: Internal Conflict with Macbeth, Opposing Forces that influence him

<Tab/>With Macbeth, Shakespeare has crafted a character that falls under immense pressures from various sources. These opposing forces create internal conflict with Macbeth as he is torn between right and wrong, ambition and loyalty. Shakespeare has engineered this internal strife as a means to highlight the theme of right versus wrong in this work. <Tab/>As a general and great soldier, Macbeth has a developed sense …

…a dagger, Macbeth's conscience is forever warped to taunt him. <Tab/>As should be evident, Macbeth is a character of strikingly immense internal conflict. This stress may even be the root of his hallucinations of men he has wronged. Either way, his conscience drives him mad and his downfall may be partly attributed to it. Macbeth's situation augments the role that Shakespeare chose for conscience in "Macbeth", quite effectively at that.