Witch-slapped: Macbeth's fall from grace

1. Why do people who are not "evil" take the first step into evil? What, for instance, is involved in taking that first step "down the primrose path to the everlasting bonfire" (Macbeth, 2.3)? What are the consequences of the individual choosing evil (particularly the internal consequences)? Use examples from the text to support your opinion.
There are times when people who are not evil gradually become evil as a result of the social environment that surrounds them. The world is filled with choices and because of the pressure to achieve success so they make bad decisions to make that happen quick. Society has ingrained people with the idea of what success consists of and looks like. Therefore, people believe it is necessary to break rules to obtain this image of success. Therefore to conclude, people who are not evil take the first step into evil to please their craving of being successful whether thats economically or socially by being accepted by those around them.
This is found to be true in Macbeth because Macbeth falls from grace after his wife Lady Macbeth tears him down just to bring him back up again. Specifically thinking, Lady Macbeth enters and tells her husband that the king has dined and that he has been asking for Macbeth. Macbeth declares that he no longer intends to kill Duncan. Lady Macbeth, outraged, calls him a coward and questions his manhood: “When you durst do it,” she says, “then you were a man”. As a result of Lady Macbeth questioning Macbeth's manliness he then chooses evil in order to obtain Lady Macbeth's image of success which is kill King Duncan and become king.

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  1. UnknownDecember 10, 2017 at 8:53 PM

    I find it interesting that you picked this particular question because the few that I have read all chose the fate or chance question. You bring up an interesting point regarding that the social environment in which one is in brings out the evil that perhaps wasn't there before. It is a factor that is always there but one doesn't often pay attention to how much of an affect others and what we surround ourselves with have on us. It makes me wonder what else we do without consciously realizing it. Good examples regarding Macbeth and the use of his and Lady Macbeth's relationship :)

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