What Shakespeare is trying to portray through this message is not only that Macbeth chose wrong, but that anyone who chooses their own ambition over their loyalty to others will end up regretting it. One of the main messages of the play as portrayed in Macbeth’s quotes is that Macbeth chose his ambition for himself becoming king over his loyalty to his friend King Duncan and to Scotland as a whole. One of the main messages of the play is that that was the wrong choice. This helps us understand the main messages of the play because Macbeth chose his ambition to become king over his loyalty. But at the same time, he regrets what he has done but knows there is no way to take it back.
He knows he must continue to gain the throne or else his killing of King Duncan,his two guards, Banquo, Lady Macduff, her children and her household will have been wasted. Macbeth says this quote to Lady Macbeth and it shows us how as the play progresses, Macbeth kills more people and does more dark things to gain and keep the throne, his internal conflict becomes worse. Later on in the play, Macbeth says ““O, full of scorpions is my mind!”. This quote adds to the universal meaning of the play because it indicates Macbeth’s internal conflict and shows us how Macbeth chose his selfish ambition to become king over his loyalty to the throne and to his friend King Duncan and how even though he may regret it, he can never take it back. What he means by this is not literally that he can never wash the blood clean from his hands, but that he can never take back what he did and that nothing he does can rid him of this crime. Macbeth says this after he has killed King Duncan. One example of this is when Macbeth says “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”. Internal conflict in the play mostly comes about because either Macbeth or Lady Macbeth regret that they killed Duncan. These internal and external conflicts help us understand the universal meaning and the main messages of the play, that Shakespeare is trying to convey.
In the play Macbeth, the main character Macbeth experiences many forms of internal and external conflict.
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