In the play "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare, one can see a change in the characteristics of certain characters when influenced by Power. However, I personally do not believe that power itself corrupts but instead it is the course one takes to obtain a certain level of power, the need to consolidate their power and the exercise of that power that in turn corrupts one. Often, one comes across personalities that are ready to beg, borrow, steal and even kill to obtain certain levels of power to pacify his or her own ambitions. Macbeth is one such person; a man that is both villainous and virtuous, one who moves from happiness to misery through the inability to analyze and interpret events in his life. Macbeth is a man who is easily influenced and a man who is eventually plagued by his ambition.

Throughout the course of the play "Macbeth...