Part 1 of Essay
Each character in Macbeth has to either fight or give in to the evil. Because evil is contrary to human nature, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have to go against their own conscience in order to murder Duncan. When the witches predict that Macbeth will become Thane of Cawdor and later, King of Scotland, he is stunned to silence ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... knows that she will have to urge her husband, Macbeth, to become King by murdering Duncan. She will have to give up all the gentle, tender qualities of a woman, so that she can become a sexless, pitiless demon. She has to make her husband ignore his own conscience. She declares: “ Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it.” By ‘illness’ she means ‘evil’. Macbeth seizes evil, as one might catch a disease. When Macbeth has the opportunity to think about his wife’s sug ....