Macbeth: Lesson II: Reveiw Question

Macbeth hesitated when killing Duncan, regretted it later, and couldn't bear to reenter his chambers. Why? The reason is actually quite simple. His conscience, while fading, still yet lingered. He had not yet become the traitorous killer is is at the end of the play. He was mostly a good man, with only traces of the cold-blooded future that is destined for Macbeth. Though he had just betrayed and murdered his king, his spiritual condition was still relatively good (if you think about Macbeth in the days before his death.) His view of manhood is very different from the cruel Lady Macbeth's. His idea of a man is moral, righteous, and full of human kindness, while his wife sees this as not manhood, but the signs of a woman! Her idea of manhood is of an unfeeling murderer who acts on impulses. A villainous cutthroat that will do anything to achieve his ambitions. Macbeth, on the other hand thinks of such a person as no man, but an inhuman beast! But as I said, his wife (along with several other influences) finally steer Macbeth to their way of thinking, and he becomes the sort of man he had once despised.