Anakin Skywalker and Macbeth both slowly transition towards evil as they try to obtain more power for themselves. In the process of doing so they also betray the ones that they hold most dear because they fear losing their newfound power. Upon being swayed to the dark side by Emperor Palpatine, Anakin rapidly descends from a great hero, the Chosen One, into the truly evil Darth Vader. “Anakin is so consumed by the rage of the Dark Side that he force chokes Padme nearly to death, but what makes it even darker is that she's pregnant with his twins”(Top 20 Darkest Star Wars Moments. Top 20 Darkest Star Wars Moments)! Anakin does not stop there, he slaughters all of the younglings training at the Jedi Temple and then proceeds to burn the temple.…show more content… Emperor Palpatine finds Anakin near the lava flow and rescues him, giving him his robotic body parts and respirator suit, completing his transition into evil, into Darth Vader. Macbeth, driven to evil by the false confidence given to him by the witches, murders his dear friend King Duncan in his sleep as described in a famous soliloquy in which Macbeth cannot believe what he is actually doing, thinking it all a hallucination. During the assassination Macbeth says, “Thou sure and firm-set earth, hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear thy very stones prate of my whereabout, and take the present horror from the time, which now suits with it” (Lit Book) showing that he is more concerned about being caught than the fact he is about to murder his friend, showing that his transformation to evil has begun. After Macbeth becomes king people begin to question the authenticity of his kingship and how it came to be, one such person was Banquo. Banquo was Macbeth’s best friend who had been with him from the beginning, through the battle, through his promotion, and through the telling of the witches prophecy. Banquo says, “thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all, as the weird women promised, and I fear thou played’st most foully for ’t” (Lit Book) showing his growing suspicions of
