Who Is Responsible For Macbeth's Downfall

The writer, Shakespeare, illustrates to the audience that the consequences do not just affect the person who have the ambitions, but it also affects the people around them. He does this by expressing the ambition through the characters of Macbeth and his wife Lady Macbeth. Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are shown to be ambitious and their ambition feeds off of each other. Macbeth is initially shown to the audience as a brave and selfless soldier who is loyal to his king till the day he dies. But, once Macbeth hears the prophecy of the three witches’, (that he will become the King of Scotland), Macbeth changes. He develops a deep, dark and horrible ambition of ruthlessly murdering the king and taking his place. Macbeth then writes to Lady Macbeth telling her of his ambitions. This leads to Lady Macbeth provoking Macbeth’s ambitions instead of telling him to forget about it. As she provokes Macbeth the audience can clearly see that this woman is bad news. “Was the hope drunk?Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since?... and wakes it now, to look so green and pale which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, and live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a tragedy in which the main characters are obsessed by the desire for power. Macbeth’s aspiration for power blinds him to the ethical implications of his dreadful acts. The more that Shakespeare’s Macbeth represses his murderous feelings, the more he is haunted by them. By analyzing his hallucinations it is possible to trace his deteriorating mental state and the trajectory of his ultimate fall. Throughout the play Macbeth is never satisfied with himself. He feels the need to keep committing crime in order to keep what he wants most: his kingship. The harder Macbeth tries to change his fate the more he tends to run into his fate. His ambition and struggle for power was Macbeth’s tragic flaw in the play.

A character’s tragic downfall is often influenced by other characters, but this is not the case in Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth. Macbeth conforms to the conditions of a tragic hero because in the beginning of the play, Macbeth is an honourable and trustworthy nobleman to King Duncan and all of Scotland. However, throughout the play, Macbeth commits evil deeds such betrayal, treason, and murder solely because of his ambitions to remain in power. Macbeth murders others upon hearing the witches’ prophecies and even proceeds to return to them to remain in power. Macbeth is influenced and manipulated by his wife Lady Macbeth and The Witches, but he is ultimately responsible for his own tragic downfall. Macbeth’s tragic downfall is caused by his ‘vaulting ambition’ to become king. Thus, Macbeth has no one but his ruthless, cruel, and greedy self to blame for his own tragic downfall.

William Shakespeare tries to show readers that even though Macbeth was evil as king, he is not entirely at fault for becoming filled with greed and anger. Even though people control their own actions they can be tempted to do wrong things due to peer pressure. Although some can just blame Macbeth, we need to remind ourselves that Macbeth wasn’t going to kill Duncan, until Lady Macbeth persuaded him to. Even if it was mostly Macbeth’s fault for not controlling his actions, “Macbeth” reminds us that when more than one person are involved with an action of evil, there is never just one person to

When Lady Macbeth is first planning a way to make Macbeth king, she knows that he is still too kind to act upon his ambitions, so she decides to take matters into her own hands. Lady Macbeth throws aside morals and kindness, instead becoming a cruel and cold-hearted person as a result of her thirst for power. When the time for Duncan’s murder to take place arrives and Macbeth does not follow the plan, Lady Macbeth smears the guards’ with blood herself. An act such as this she could carry out, but not the murder itself, which is explained in the quote, “Had he not resembled/ My father as he slept, I had done ‘t. (2.1.12-13)” In Act 1, Lady Macbeth had seemingly stripped herself of any remorse or doubt that may interfere with the murder, but

Scottish general Macbeth is told by a trio of witches that he will become Thane of

Was it Macbeth that did all these evil deeds or was it someone else. Was his story really cursed or was it his wife’s bidding. Macbeth has killed the king and took the crown then has killed others to protect himself. He gets three prophecies in the beginning that become true and three in the near end that lead to his fall. I think it is Macbeth’s fault for all his actions and the cause of his downfall.

Macbeth encounters many influences; Lady Macbeth is the main influence on Macbeth and the one to blame for his downfall. In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, Macbeth also brings himself down by his own ambitions. Lady Macbeth becomes more confident and supportive of the plan on killing Duncan than Macbeth. Duncan reminds Lady Macbeth of her father, making the killing of Duncan more significant to Lady Macbeth’s life. The preeminent reason for Macbeth’s downfall is the questioning of Macbeth's manhood. Lady Macbeth begins to realize that Macbeth is reappraising his thoughts of killing Duncan; therefore, giving Lady Macbeth the opportunity of questioning. Lady Macbeth does whatever she can to cover up any misconduct, for example, telling

Firstly, I believe that Macbeth was responsible for his downfall because he's already had corrupted thoughts in the beginning. As quoted in act I, scene IV, line 55, "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see." This shows that Macbeth is already starting to get the impression that he would have to do something to get what he wanted such as committing a crime he knows would benefit him and fullfill his desires. This also reveals that this is without a doubt his own belief alone and that his opinion has not been clouded by Lady Macbeth's sentiment, which proves that he is definitely obligated for his own actions.

In the play Macbeth by Shakespeare, Macbeth turns his back on his morals as his desire for power and his fatal flaw of ambition leads to his tragic downfall. His self-destructiveness, rooted in his ambition, is very apparent especially when considering his series of bad decision-making leading to a spree of murders. Lady Macbeth pushes Macbeth to kill King Duncan so that he could take the throne. This fateful decision quickly leads to his demise, as his guilt is overtaken by his obsession with power. Soon after, Macbeth’s guilt is replaced with evil, as he continues to try to cover his tracks by then killing the King’s guards, followed by killing Banquo, because he felt that he was suspicious of him, and he might find out what Macbeth did.

How is it possible that someone so great could be destined for downfall? Shakespeare’s masterpiece Macbeth tells the tale of a courageous solider and how fate and his flaws and actions make him into a ruthless ruler and later lead to his downfall. Macbeth is one of literatures greatest examples of a tragic hero-a great and rightous character in a dramatic tragedy that is fated for suffering and downfall-though his tragic flaw, suffering and potential for greatness. One of a tragic hero’s greatest characteristics is that they have a hubris which leads to their demise.

Macbeth, by William Shakespeare is a tragic play that shows the audience the tragic flaws of many characters. From Lady Macbeth’s reckless loyalty to Duncan’s absolute trust, these tragic flaws deteriorate these characters to their furthest limits. This inevitably results in a great downfall: death. Throughout Macbeth, Shakespeare shows that Macbeth’s downfall is the result of his own tragic flaw: blind ambition. Macbeth has many flaws in character, most salient being his blind ambition.

Macbeth the protagonist of this play is reaching his downfall. Macbeth has a conflict. The conflict Macbeth has is that he is being doomed by outside forces. An example of an outside force is the Scottish witches. The scottish witches want to destroy Macbeth in order to do that they tell him a prophecy to mess with his head.

Macbeth’s vanity and inability to think around what was given him, led him to make bad decisions which overall partially contribute to his downfall. During Macbeth’s

MacBeth Analysis In the play MacBeth written by William Shakespeare, the main character MacBeth was given a prophecy to become a king by three witches. In order for MacBeth to be king, however, the current king has to be deceased; MacBeth was hoping that, by fate, King Duncan would pass away naturally. Sadly, destiny did not favor MacBeth as he has to murder King Duncan for him to become a king. Between MacBeth and his wife Lady MacBeth, MacBeth is the more responsible person for the murder, thus making MacBeth the greater of two evil.