Macbeth

Shakespeare describes Macbeth as a very bold, brave, arrogant and triumphant character. These traits of Macbeth lead him to becoming greedy and his greediness begins taking over his mind, of course with the help of his manipulative wife, Lady Macbeth. Given that Macbeth thinks so greatly of himself,.
             "I dare do all that may become a man. Who dares do more is none." (I, vii, 51-52) .
             And becomes horribly greedy he decides to go against his own opinion which was that he would not interfere with the future and he decides to go ahead with his wife's decision and murder King Duncan, in order for him to become king.
             Throughout Shakespeare's Macbeth, there are many reoccurring themes. However, I believe that one theme in particular starts out at the very beginning of the play, and continues on, right to the bitter end. The main theme is most definitely guilt and conscience, because Macbeth is aware that killing King Duncan and all that are at heir to the throne is wrong, however he goes and does it anyways, and as a result, suffers the consequences. There are three main images that occur in this theme, the image of sleep, because once Macbeth and Lady Macbeth realize what they have done they begin to lose sleep over it, hallucinations, because the Macbeth's start seeing things, whenever they are doing something that involves violence, and lunacy, because Lady Macbeth has gone insane, after feeling so incredibly guilty for what she has done.
             Sleep is believed to be one of the most important images, during the play, because as soon as Macbeth starts to feel guilty for what he has done he begins to lose sleep. "Me thought I heard a voice cry, sleep no more!/Macbeth does murder sleep." (II, ii, 35-36). After murdering King Duncan, Macbeth felt guilty and wanted to make it look like he was innocent, so he woke up Donnalbain and Banquo and pretended to be in complete "shock." "Banquo and Donnalbain, Malcolm awake! / Shake off this clowny sleep, death's counterfeit and look on death itself!" (II, iii, 75-77).