Romancing the Crown An essay on Macbeths Lust for Power By Jacob Rivers         In Act I, Scene 1 of William Shakespe bes Macbeth, the witches foreshadow their protégés coming spring push in their chant equitable is muddy, and expire is graceful/Hover through the fog and fouled air. It is Macbeth himself who go forth hover when he hears their prophecy and he depart fulfill it by twisting everything that is foul into an illusion of lividity and that which is fair be do its utterly distasteful to him.
        When the Thane of Cawdor is found treasonous and Duncans bestows the championship on his beloved and noble warrior, Macbeth, the newly honored thane is delightful but unsatisfied because he knows he cannot quickly come to the thr ane as the witches promised him. Enter the Lady. She assures her husband that her passion go out make up for his character that is withal full o the milk of human kindness¦. The lady that is so proclaimed fair turns foul and all but holds her husbands hands as he stabs their top executive.
        Macbeths lust for power is whetted by his murder of Duncan. His ruminations remind him that Banquo is the one upon whom the witches bestowed the more qualifytled prophecy: thou shalt get kings¦. In Macbeths mind, he is given to believe that his bloodstained hands are thus only for the furtherance of Banquos issue. Time to act and this time, without needing or involving his wifes assistance.
        In Shakespeares fascination with conscience and the realm of spirits, Banquos ghost visits Macbeth at a very inconvenient time. Celebrating his newfound power and influence, the king by default is horrified that his chair at the paste table is taken by the bloody apparition of his protagonist whom he has had murdered at the hands of his henchmen. Lady Macbeth is stunned by his disturbance and herself begins wondering if his power climb was too much and premature. Macbeth, however, comes to an even deeper conviction to stabilize his power and seeks the advice of his crones.
        conscious(predicate) that his power has been given him through foul play, Macbeth decides that the best foul players, the witches, can help him further his influence. His apparitions give him ambiguous messages intimately his coming fate. It is here that Shakespeares master craftsmanship is displayed in this tragedy.
What Macbeth interprets in his power hungry mind as assurances that he is undefeatable is genuinely communicating his touched demise. Macbeth shall never be vanquishd until Great Birnam timber to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him. That will never be! Macbeth asserts believing that such a foul and unnatural encroachment is impossible. What he fails to realize, however, is that his own unnatural behavior which has enabled him to assume power, has set in motion a great wave of unnatural forces that inevitably fall against him.
Shakespeares Macbeth dies from his own tragic flaws but his interlinking character does not die easily. He flouts his fate and will not give up his lustful power struggle until his scheming head is cut from his body.
Macbeths death heralds the end of his ruthless reign but his legacy is not ended and finds mirror images throughout history. Shakespeares genius is recalled in every despots thirst for power and even in an individuals tendency to turn that which is fair into that which becomes foul and destructive.
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