1. Do you think Macbeth or his wife is responsible for his willingness to kill for power? Why do you feel this
way?
2. How can pressure from family or friends potentially lead us to make decisions that we know are dangerous
or harmful to others?
3. Based on the lesson learned from the play, how can one achieve power and authority without sacrificing or
harming others?
4. What lesson have you learned from Macbeth? How will you apply this lesson to your own life?

1. Macbeth is responsible for his willingness to kill for power.  If you kill for power, you cannot absolve yourself of responsibility.  If your family urges you to commit evil, refrain and restrain them.  Never act on their urgings.  Remember, Eve also led Adam to eat from the forbidden fruit.

2. Pressure from family or friends can potentially lead us to make dangerous or harmful decisions when we listen to and act on their advice.  You must prove yourself a person by not being swayed by pressure.  Know at whose altar you worship!

3. Macbeth was not ordinarily a successor to the throne of Scotland.  It was his wife, Lady Macbeth, who had the right to ascend to the throne before her marriage to Macbeth.  To achieve power and authority without sacrificing or harming others, one should learn to be patient.  If anything will be yours, it will surely come to pass.  Allow time to pass.  Do not hurry time by committing atrocities.

4. Greedy ambition unrestrained by morality is devastating both to the ambitious and others around them.  Macbeth and Lady Macbeth could not hold the throne after murdering Duncan.  Therefore, I must apply moral principles to my ambitions in life.  If no one is adversely affected by my ambition, I will then pursue it relentlessly.  But, if somebody will be adversely affected by any of my ambitions, I will try as much as humanly possible to curtail and control such ambitions.  God helping me with His grace!

Explanation:

Macbeth is the title of a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.  It chronicles Macbeth's killing of Duncan, his cousin and King of Scotland, and the subsequent destruction that erupted in and around the kingdom following Macbeth's destructive madness after ascending the throne.

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