Persuasive Essay Outline For Macbeth

Macbeth Persuasive Essay Outline

I. Introduction
A. Man's overconfidence will lead to failure, demise and downfall.
B. In Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Macbeth is a tragic hero who destroys himself by his own wicked and selfish ambitions.
1. At the beginning of the play, Macbeth is portrayed as a courageous, noble hero of Scotland who has bravely won the war.
2. As the story continues, Macbeth soon becomes a tyrant king who is willing to murder anyone who becomes a threat to his kingdom.
C. Macbeth, despite influences of the witches and Lady Macbeth, is responsible for his downfall because he blindly believes, gets manipulated easily and lets his ambitions take over him.
II. Macbeth blindly believes the prophecy without any proof.
A. Macbeth …show more content…
Macbeth wants all time to be his, and gets none of it. Macbeth would expedite the death-aspect of life and catch the future in an instant which would destroy the present, Duncan.
III. Macbeth has free will, even if he is being manipulated by his wife and the witches.
A. Lady Macbeth questions Macbeth's manliness, knowing that this is the greatest insult she can say to him. Because Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are so close at the beginning of the play, she knows exactly how to manipulate him into committing murder.
B. "What beast was ’t, then, That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man... Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this" (1.7.48-58).
C. Macbeth thought that he wouldn’t be a man if he murdered King Duncan for his own benefit, but Lady Macbeth is saying that in becoming the new King, Macbeth will be even more of a man. By demonstrating how cold and ruthless she is, Lady Macbeth comes out looking more like a man than Macbeth, who is weak willed in comparison to his wife’s …show more content…
Macbeth being strong mentally and physically does not put a stop to his murder plans while his conscience warns him of the downfall lurching in the vicinity. Macbeth realizes that his pitiful existence, from the moment he decided to kill Duncan to the moment when his beloved wife killed herself, has been destroyed by his reckless ambition.
B. "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing" (5.5.24-28).
C. Macbeth compares his existence to the condition of being a mere ghost. He goes on to compare people to actors who worry about their brief moment in the spotlight only to cease to exist before they realize it is over. If Macbeth had been content with his previous title, which was prestigious enough, a wealth of tragedy would have been avoided.
D. Macbeth never had the courage to learn from Duncan, as he was a real king. His ambition blinded him so that he only care whether he got the title, not whether he represented that title or not.
E. "Macbeth fails through trying to advance from deserved honor as a noble Thane to the higher kingly honor to which he has no rights. The kingship he attains, yet never really possesses it. He is never properly king: his regality is a mockery"

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