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All throughout Acts two and three Macbeth slowly goes mad. He changes from a calm and cautious man into a cold-hearted power happy king. These acts show how his guilty conscious got to him and how they slowly turned his mind inside out. They also prove that his over confidence will soon bring the end to his short reign. In act two we see the first part of his dramatic change and we see part …

…does not kill Fleance, who will soon be the bearer of his crown. Also he sees the ghost of Banqou after he kills him and not even the words of his soothing wife could calm him down at this point. We are at a point in the play were at any time now he is going to snap and be revealed. He is like a bomb waiting to explode with any sudden movement or touch.