Journal Topic: Ruler type

"What kind of ruler do you think Macbeth will be? Why? Provide at least three textual examples that support your main points."

• "Fair is foul, and foul is fair"-Witches

• "But this blow might be the be-all and the end-all—here,But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,We'ld jump the life to come" -Macbeth 

• "I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep..."           -Macbeth

• The times have been that, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end, but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools: this is more strange Than such a murder is." -Macbeth

I find that Macbeth is a poor leader, for a variety of reasons. A good leader does what is best fro his people, Macbeth is only concerned about himself and his actions support his. Instead of rising up to leadership, he stoops so low as to kill off his other competitors for the throne. For these actions ad murderous ways, I consider Macbeth nothing more than a coward. He is strung along like a puppet from Lady Macbeth and after he does some course of action, he is haunted by his guilt and he has the audacity to wonder why thing have played out the way they have. "I heard a voice cry, 'sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep!' The innocent sleep." Macbeth is haunted by murdering and believes he heard this chant after he killed Duncan. Macbeth's conscious is finally taking a toll. Another example of his conscious streaming through is when he sees Banquo's ghost lurking during a dinner.  "The times have been that, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end, but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools: this is more strange Than such a murder is." Macbeth is unable to back up his reasoning for anything he does. After every action he takes, he sits and contemplates after it's committed as oppose to the traditional thinking before he acts. He is such a poor leader, because he never learns from hi mistakes. Normally people grow and further their understandings to not make the same mistake twice. Macbeth not only continues to commit the same mistakes, but he is doing so and acts oblvious when his plans fail.