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Mr. Macbeth
I believe, though the character of Macbeth is fictional, no one is really able to point a finger as we are all capable of being just as evil as he became. We are all just as able to be presented with instances of power, yet we are all also able to stand down from this power; thus preventing it from consuming us to the extent to which Macbeth did. You can see this through what he says to Lady Macbeth when she is trying to re-convince him to kill Duncan. He says, "I dare do all that may become a man. Who dares do more is none." He realizes that by initially refraining from killing Duncan he is the true man. Therefore it's hard to know at what point he transforms into the murdering heartless Macbeth at the end of the novel. It seems as if there is a mixture of events that lead up to it. Both Lady Macbeth and the witches add to his downfall as the witches "plant the seed" of an altered fate in his mind while Lady Macbeth continues to water it. After they no longer coax him, his mind continues to lead him astray. His dagger soliloquy is a key example of his change. He states in it that, "...wicked dreams abuse the curtained sleep." As a more prosperous future disrupted the peaceful one he led before meeting the witches. Yet now that he has seen what is beyond the life he had before he can never be satisfied.