Reasons For Macbeth's Downfall

To begin, the witches are the catalyst to Macbeth’s crimes because the convince him that he will become king. Macbeth first meets the witches while returning from a gruesome battle and it is safe to say that they greet him with some audacious titles. They initially greet him as the Thane of Glamis and the Thane of Cawdor, but it is their final greeting which has the greatest effect on Macbeth. The witches hail Macbeth as someone “that shalt be king hereafter!” (1.3.53). This ignites a fire inside Macbeth, who is an immensely ambitious person. He begins to fantasize about the luxurious life he would have if he were the king of Scotland and he suddenly has the temptation to kill King Duncan. Although the witches’ prediction is favourable, Macbeth has no reason to believe them, at least until one of their other predictions turns out to be true. This

Macbeth's feels that his destiny is to become King and rule with all the power that goes with kingship. The three witches on his way back to the kingdom, prophesied that he would rise to kingship. They said "All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis" (I, 3, 48), and then as the thane of Cawdor "All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Cawdor" (I, 3, 49). At this point in the play Macbeth had just become thane of Glamis, and the thane of Cawdor is still alive. Then, the witches greeted Macbeth as the King of Scotland saying "All hail, Macbeth! That shalt be King hereafter" (I, 3, 50). This is the point in the tragedy where Macbeth starts to think as a villain. If the witches had never greeted him as King on Scotland, then he would probably never have contemplated killing Duncan in the first place. At first, he believes that he will need to kill King Duncan. Though at the end of Act 1, Scene 3, he thinks that perhaps he doesn't need to do anything to become the king saying "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me without my stir.", showing he is a man of honor and morals. Then, Lady Macbeth hears of the prophecy in his letters and decides immediately for him that King Duncan must die, showing Macbeth's doubt. An

         Towards the end of the play, once Macbeth’s wife has died and the battle is drawing closer, Macbeth shows the desire for some good that may have been.  He wishes for a normal life in which he would have lived to an honorable age, but he recognizes that he has deprived himself of this.   Even when Macbeth hears that the prophecy of Birnam Wood coming to Dunsinane has been fulfilled, he rejects this idea and fights on until he realizes that Macduff wasn’t born in a natural birth but instead was "untimely ripped"(V.viii.19-20) from his mother’s womb.  When Macbeth hears of this, he realizes what dastardly deeds he has done and how he has underestimated the power of the witches. He fights on, knowing it is only a matter of time before he is slain.

Macbeth discovers that Macduff has found out about his role in Duncan’s death and believes that he must keep his secret a secret, no matter the cost.”Beware Macduff, beware the Thane of fire. The power of man, for none born of woman, shall harm Macbeth”(4.1.73-74). Shakespeare’s use of threatening language and repetition gives Macbeth’s personality very serious and threatening edge to his character. Macbeth’s personality and actions represent every human’s ambition and that once an ambitious person with malicious and evil intent has their eyes set on a goal, nothing can deter them from their

Following yet another augury where three spirits tell Macbeth how his kingship will end, “Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff! Beware the Thane of Fife! Dismiss me. Enough”(Shakespeare 4.1.71-72), “Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.”(Shakespeare 4.1.79-81), “Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care who chafes, who frets, where conspires are. Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him.”(Shakespeare 4.1.90-94). Macbeth doesn’t realize what plot loops could be lurking deeply rooted into the spirit's words. As he hears that he must beware Macduff, his unsettled ways can be seen as he notices that no one born by a woman can harm him yet he still hires people to kill Macduff “just in case”. This gives into his obliviousness to the witches treachery and to his false power. By the final battle scene Macbeth is conceited as always and has no problem challenging all others as trees cannot move and everyone is born of woman. Only in his last moments did he realize his mistake as Macduff was not technically born of a

Macbeth is not an evil man; he is a good man who let his ambitions get the best of him. He made a terrible mistake that any one of us could make. Sometimes there can be one mistake that sends you to your slow demise. In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare Macbeth makes one decision that ends up leading him to his horrible fate. There were many contributions that lead Macbeth to behave the way he did, but there are reasons it was not entirely his fault or his intentions at first.

It is easier to assuage your own guilt by blaming your downfalls on another individual, unlike Macbeth. Macbeth rarely ever placed the reason for his downfall on his wife, when it was her who was the main cause of his subsequent demise. Although Macbeth’s power-hungry and tenebrous nature becomes the key factor in his downfall, Lady Macbeth initiates these ambitions by causing him to act on his own reluctant, lurid thoughts, killing off every individual who tries to obstruct his pathway in gaining the thrown. This overbearing behavior was not present in the very beginning of the play though; Macbeth was a very chivalrous man with hero-like characteristics that were respected by all of his countrymen and other peers. Evil

A guilty conscience can make anyone go mad it they let it. William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is an ideal example of this. Macbeth, a noble of Scotland, lets his ambitions to be great and powerful get the best of him. His vaulting ambition makes him do terrible acts of violence continuously. The guilty conscience he holds on his back eventually becomes too heavy ultimately driving him insane. Greed and guilt cause the madness of this protagonist thus causing his downfall, not only as a King but also his life he strived so hard to make better.

Imagine that one day you are walking home and these weird looking women stop you to tell you your future. They start naming accomplishments that are happening now in your life, that are about to happen in your life, and that are going to happen in the future. A little skeptical aren’t you? Well, Macbeth, by William Shakespeare is a play about how one thing that is said can be interpreted in many ways. When I said before that you would want to tell everyone, especially your friends and loved ones about your accomplishments, that is what Macbeth did.

Macbeth begins to grow reckless and does not take into consideration the repercussions of his actions and wrong doings. In the beginning of the play, Macbeth listens carefully to the witches prophecies and ponders them. He questions them and says, “I know I am thane of Glamis. But how of Cawdor?” (1.3.72-73).

People that have ambition are often the ones that experience the downfalls that come with these endeavors. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the author portrays a variety of conflicts that characters come across as a result of their aspirations. To begin, Macbeth depicts dangers that come with ambition. Evidently, his aspiration to become King leads him to his downfall.

In the opening act of this play Macbeth is a solider who has just returned from war. The captains are speaking highly of Macbeth’s valor, courage, and bravery. Suddenly Macbeth meets up with three witches. These witches tell him, “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis, thane of Cawdor, that shalt be king

Mischievous Witches, Machiavellian Politics, and Anosognosia: Causes for Macbeth’s Downfall At the beginning of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Duncan and his sons praise Macbeth for his bravery and nobility in fighting the war. Near the end of the play, those characters who once admired Macbeth now describe him as “treacherous” and “devilish”. This shift in perception correlates to an ever-changing Macbeth, whose innocence becomes defiled with numerous transgressions; but, this begs the question: how can a seemingly innocent man suddenly become a villain?

Many of people have heard the tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare. The story revolves on a sequence of misfortunate events that take place when Macbeth makes immoral decisions to be king. In the play, Shakespeare shows how power can cause corruption in a human’s brain. Macbeth himself was not a very confident person, though he had a kind soul to begin with, he was easily influenced and gullible. Through the prophecies of the evil beings, an insignificant seed was planted in Macbeth. That spark of wealth and fortune caused the tyrant within him to awake. Which eventually lead to his fatal death. His ambition lead him to murder, go insane and become very superstitious.

Nevertheless, Macbeth quickly discounts these bloody visions of murder and continues to fantasize about his future glories. Furthermore, when Macbeth encounters the witches, we are only told a quick summary of the prophecy, “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!” (1.3.52).and then, “All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!” (1.3.53). Yet the witches do not reveal the means by which Macbeth will come about this glory or mention any ill deeds that are to come. This leaves one to believe that the witches knew Macbeth’s fate as Thane and King, yet the other bloody elements of the prophecy are enacted solely through Macbeth’s own will. Macbeth is only prompted in his bloody actions by supernatural forces and of course Lady Macbeth.