In Shakespeare's Macbeth, the influence of two different forces causes the main character, Macbeth, to be torn between his desire for power and his sense of loyalty to his king and his country. Macbeth already holds a place of power at the beginning of the play, being the lord of Glamis, and later gains power as the lord of Kordor, given to him by its kind king Duncan. However, when three witches predict his future and tell him that he will become king, instead of being kind to what the king has already given him, he thirsts for even more power. This division of Macbeth's desires leads to the idea that the pursuit of much power is more harmful than positive. Being loyal to his king and his country, Macbeth has difficulty coming to terms with his wife's repressed desire to kill the great King Duncan. Macbeth tells Duncan, “The service and loyalty I owe,/In doing so, pays for itself. Your Highness's duty is to receive our duties; and our duties/Are to thy throne and thy state, sons and servants,/who do but what they ought, doing all things/Secured to thy love and honor” (I.iv.22-27 ). Macbeth exhibition...