Macbeth The Evil Wolf Analysis

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The play “Macbeth,” by William Shakespeare, is about a man named Macbeth who kills everyone in his way to try to become King because of his ambition. Similar to this play, is the fable “The Two Wolves” in which a boy is having a battle between good and evil inside his mind and whichever thought he feeds the most will win. Macbeth relates to this fable because he fed his ambition (the evil wolf in the fable) to be the King even if he had to commit murder. First, as Macbeth becomes thane of Cawdor his ambition to be king could not stop him from killing King Duncan. He said “I am settled, and bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat” (Shakespeare 1:7:79-80). In the wolves story it says that the bad wolf was filled with “greed, arrogance” …show more content…
Second, as the witches approached, they told Macbeth that Banquo’s sons would be the future Kings of Scotland, therefore Macbeth fears he will not rule for much longer. Suddenly he takes action and says, “But yet I’ll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate” (Shakespeare 4:1:86-87). In relation to the wolves story, it says characteristics about the evil wolf such as “superiority, and ego” (“The Two Wolves”). Again, this lets the reader know that he was willing to do anything to keep that crown on his head since he fed his ambition more than his honor or honesty. Finally, Macbeth is promised that no one born from a woman could ever kill him. As he felt invincible due to his ego, he says to Macduff, Banquo’s son, “I bear a charmèd life, which must not yield to one of woman born” (shakespeare 5:8:12-13). In a similar way, this is shown in the wolves story when the grandson asks his grandfather “Which wolf will win?” and his grandfather responds “the one you feed” (The Two Wolves”). In other words, Macbeth had fed so much his ambition, and ego, and evil within him that it is not letting him see what damages his actions are causing
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