Macbeth’S Changing Fears In the play Macbeth, Shakespeare plays upon many different human emotions. Shakespeare focuses these many emotions mainly in the character Macbeth. Shakespeare plays with a variety of emotions with Macbeth, but one emotion is clearly more predominate in Macbeth than any of the other emotions. This emotion is fear. Macbeth is afraid of many things in the play for a variety of reasons. Macbeth is afraid of his thoughts, what other think, his actions, the consequences of his actions, the future, Banquo, Fleance, death, and most importantly fate. Macbeth is even afraid of fear itself. Not only is he afraid of thes