Macbeth’s Metamorphosis

Macbeth has changed considerably by the end of the play. He has switched roles with Lady Macbeth and became the person she wanted him to become. Macbeth ends up facing his death by the people that were under him in the beginning.

Macbeth has changed considerably by the end of Act 5. His personality almost swapped with the personality of Lady Macbeth at the beginning of the play. There were two quotes that showed this change perfectly; these quotes will be further explained in the following paragraphs.
In Act 5 scene 5 Macbeth quotes “I have almost forgot the taste of fears. / The time has been my senses would have cooled / To hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair / Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir / As life were in’t. I have supped full with horrors. / Direness, familiar to my slaughterhouse thoughts / Cannot once start me.” (5.5 9-15) During the middle of the night Macbeth hears a shriek from a woman and Macbeth is not scared at all. However Macbeth mentions in the quote that a long time ago he had been spooked to the bone when he heard shrieks during the middle of the night. Now he does not and Macbeth admits the change also saying that he is a man of courage and nothing can scare him.
The second quote that proves the change in Macbeth is both rude and cruel to the person the quote is directed to. “She would have died hereafter.” (5.5.17) When the messenger brings Macbeth the horrible news that Lady Macbeth has just committed suicide, Macbeth acts totally indifferent and says she would have died anyways. At the beginning of the play Macbeth was a man under the control of his wife, but now he does not care as if she was no more than a servant. Macbeth ahs clearly become a slaughter machine without any form of affection what so ever. He is completely blinded by power and his courage. This brought his tragic but ultimate ending: death.