Hamlet Macbeth
As a blueprint, Shakespeare’s Hamlet serves to prove that the character Macbeth could not have been a good leader even if he had made wiser choices. Macbeth does not contain the attributes needed for one to be a good leader. In Act III, Scene IV, Shakespeare uses a speech by Hamlet to his mother to shows his audience the fundamental characteristics of grace, fear, leadership, and well roundedness that all good leaders encompass. Macbeth does not contain these characteristics and was therefore not capable of being a good leader no matter what choices he had made. Throughout Hamlet, King Hamlet was portrayed as a great leader. In describing his father in this way Hamlet says “See what a grace was seated on his brow (Act 3 Sc 4). ... Macbeth clearly does not possess this grace. Macbeth has his first chance to prove himself as a good leader when the banquet is called. Instead of putting his followers at rest and proving himself, Macbeth goes on to completely ruin everyone’s image of him as leader at all. ... ” All of the other men attending the banquet think that Macbeth has gone crazy and they do not look upon him as king anymore. ... When Hamlet describes his father, the great king, he says “An eye like Mars’ to threaten and command, a station like the herald Mercury (Act 3 Sc 4). ... This is another reason that Macbeth is not a good leader. ... ” Lennox and the lord are expressing their hope that Malcolm and Macduff will be successful and that their actions can save Scotland from Macbeth.