Who Was Responsible For The Downfall Of Macbeth

Guilt is a very strong and uncomfortable feeling that often results from one’s own actions. This strong emotion is one of the theme ideas in William Shakespeare, “Macbeth”. Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth feel guilt, but they react in different ways. Guilt hardens Macbeth, but cause Lady Macbeth to commit suicide. As Macbeth shrives to success guilt overcome’s Macbeth where he can no longer think straight. Initially Macbeth planned was to kill Duncan but it wasn’t enough he also had to kill Banquo and Macduff’s family. On the other hand Lady Macbeth had to call upon the weird sister to unsexed her so she had no true feeling towards anything as if she was a man. However, the true guilt of the murder

As I am writing this essay, Newton’s first law of motion, “for an object to be set in motion, a force has to be applied to it”, comes to mind. Every object has potential energy to be kinetic, but another object must exert physical force to propel it forward. Macbeth has potential energy from his inner desire to be king, and his rapt reaction to eliminate foilers in his way proves that. However, Macbeth’s innocence and goodness makes it impossible for him to commit murders. Lady Macbeth’s relentless persuasion is the outside force that “propels” Macbeth. Out of the three characters who lead to Macbeth’s downfall, Lady Macbeth gives the greatest momentum that drives Macbeth into furies of inconceivable acts against human nature.

I have fallen! Help me young sir! I have fallen! What is wrong? How have you fallen? I fell, I fell from grace itself! Now I need help! Will you help me? If you have fallen what makes you think that you can be helped? Ouch how cruel. To think that he has fallen from grace and now to be told that he can’t be helped. That’s what happened to Macbeth, he fell from grace and now there was no way he could be helped, but he didn’t even try to get help. Course, how did he fall from grace? Well, there are many ways that he fell, but mostly it's because of others. And who are these people to blame for his fall? To blame for Macbeth's downfall is the 3 witches, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth

After Macbeth's death, I Malcolm was named King of Scotland. Macbeth left a huge hole and led a terrible reign. Now I as king, have a job to my people to restore Scotland and build it back up to how it was and erase Macbeth's mistakes. Macbeth was no King, he was so obsessed with power he became a Tyrant. In doing so he caused panic and horror to my people of . After Macbeth's death I now must restore what was once was my home and is my kingdom to rule. I know as king i have a lot of work to do to restore my home and regain my peoples trust but in deed Scotland will flourish once again.

Many kings and queens meet their downfall because they want more power and are extremely ambitious. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, Macbeth is more to blame for his downfall than his wife because he was cold-blooded, impulsive, and over-confident.

Although the witches only play a small role in the play, they have a huge impact on what goes on. The witches are the base of the play, and without the weird sisters, there would not be a play. Throughout the play, the witches tempt Macbeth to do things that will make his fate come true. The witches add fuel to the fire by revealing to Macbeth the prophecies, which drive him to kill many of his friends, change his heart, and ultimately lead to his downfall.

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.

Coincidentally, Duncan, honoring the hero, decides to stay at Macbeth’s castle overnight. Lady Macbeth believes that this is a perfect opportunity given by fate to kill Duncan and usurp his power. Exhibiting extreme ambition and masculinity, Lady Macbeth orchestrates the entire scheme and persuades her husband into committing evil deeds, chiding him for behaving like a feminine and coward. Macbeth eventually yields to his wife’s pressure and manipulation. After the murder is discovered, Malcolm and Donalbain, Duncan’s sons, flee to England and Ireland, respectively, while Macbeth assumes a dictatorial sovereignty of Scotland. Macbeth, however, becomes insecure about his power, for the witches have prophesied that Banquo’s descendants will be kings and Macduff, another Scottish nobleman in England, may threaten him. Hence, the vicious tyrant assassinates Banquo and Macduff’s family. As a result, Macduff, with aids from Malcolm and England, vows to retaliate against Macbeth. Meanwhile, Lady Macbeth is greatly agonized by guilt, sleepwalking, rubbing her hands as if trying to wash away the bloodstains, and finally committing suicide. The downfall of Macbeth immediately succeeds when the English army invades his castle and is marked by Macduff outplaying Macbeth in a fierce

(p. 1)Wouldn't it be fun and entertaining to cause trouble yet receive no consequence.This happens Quite often in high school's. Usually the cause of trouble could be someone insignificant lying for his/her own entertainment. Macbeth, a play by William Shakespeare Acknowledges this possibility by using this to formulate a storyline. In my opinion the character’s most responsible for Macbeth’s downfall are the three witches because they are deceptive and have supernatural powers to use for their advantage.(p. 2)The three witches are the most responsible for Macbeth's downfall. Although there are others that seem to have more of an impact on Macbeth. The three witches have more of an impact when they first started this problem by saying”All hail

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

This includes murdering his friend and ally Banquo, who has done Macbeth no harm, as well as attempting to murder Banquo’s innocent son Fleance. Macbeth killed Duncan in order to make himself king of Scotland, but he fears that his felony will be futile in the long term if Banquo's descendants, rather than his own, are destined to wear the crown. In order to prevent his worst fear from becoming reality, Macbeth hires assassins to assassinate Banquo and his son Fleance, in an effort to prevent the witches’ prophecies about Banquo from being fulfilled. Macbeth attempts to tamper with fate even though fate is an inevitable course of events that is predetermined by God and is beyond human control. Macbeth kills Banquo in order to satisfy his greed and, thus, he must pay the consequences for his actions. Additionally, Macbeth developed hubris, believing that he is invincible and nobody can slay him. Consequently, Macbeth’s hubris slowly becomes his dominant character trait. This is evident when Macbeth visits the witches at his own free will. After the witches give him the three apparitions, Macbeth presumes that the witches’ apparitions can never come true and, therefore, he is invulnerable (Shakespeare 4.1.104-105). Macbeth’s hubris lingers to the very end of the play, even when he knows that his defeat is inevitable. When Macbeth finally realizes the witches’ deception during his fight with Macduff, Macduff suggests that Macbeth should capitulate. In turn, Macbeth replies, “I will not yield,/ To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet,/ And to be baited with the rabble's curse./ Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,/ And thou opposed, being of no woman born,/ Yet I will try the last” (Shakespeare 5.8.32-37). This quote bespeaks the magnitude of Macbeth’s hubris. Macbeth refuses to surrender to his enemies and demonstrates that his pride is so

Being the Thane of Glamis and a Scottish General ended up not being enough for Macbeth. After being told by three witches that he would be king, he lost his senses. The more he delved into becoming King, the more he became cruel and careless. After being manipulated and convinced he became a monster. Macbeth is to blame for his demise because he was too consumed with himself.

He even murders the king Duncan and some guard to show that someone went inside the castle and kill Duncan.” Macbeth paces by himself, pondering his idea of assassinating Duncan. He says that the deed would be easy if he could be certain that it would not set in motion a series of terrible consequences. He declares his willingness to risk eternal damnation but realizes that even on earth, bloody actions “return / To plague th’inventor” (1.7.9–10). This shows that he kills king Duncan. Later in the play he kills Banquo because he suspects of Macbeth, that he kills Duncan. Macbeth takes one more step and kill Banquo. “The murder of Duncan, which weighs so heavily on his conscience, may have simply cleared the way for Banquo’s sons to overthrow Macbeth’s own family.” Macbeth reminds the two men, who are murderers he has hired, of a conversation he had with them the day before, in which he chronicled the wrongs Banquo had done them in the past. He asks if they are angry and manly enough to take revenge on Banquo. They reply that they are, and Macbeth accepts their promise that they will murder his former friend” (act3, scene 1). This show that, Macbeth doesn’t want to take any risk and he plans to kill Banquo. But he still has the murder of king Duncan in his conscience and now he has the murder of Banquo. All these action he made it because he wants it to become the king of Scotland. One of the prophecy that the witches gave to Macbeth was no man born from a woman will harm Macbeth. He went to the battlefield confident that no one can kill him, but Macduff was not born from a woman he was take away from his mom wound because she died before she gave

He even murders the king Duncan and some guard to show that someone went inside the castle and kill Duncan.” Macbeth paces by himself, pondering his idea of assassinating Duncan. He says that the deed would be easy if he could be certain that it would not set in motion a series of terrible consequences. He declares his willingness to risk eternal damnation but realizes that even on earth, bloody actions “return / To plague th’inventor” (1.7.9–10). This shows that he kills king Duncan. Later in the play he kills Banquo because he suspects of Macbeth, that he kills Duncan. Macbeth takes one more step and kill Banquo. “The murder of Duncan, which weighs so heavily on his conscience, may have simply cleared the way for Banquo’s sons to overthrow Macbeth’s own family.” Macbeth reminds the two men, who are murderers he has hired, of a conversation he had with them the day before, in which he chronicled the wrongs Banquo had done them in the past. He asks if they are angry and manly enough to take revenge on Banquo. They reply that they are, and Macbeth accepts their promise that they will murder his former friend” (act3, scene 1). This show that, Macbeth doesn’t want to take any risk and he plans to kill Banquo. But he still has the murder of king Duncan in his conscience and now he has the murder of Banquo. All these action he made it because he wants it to become the king of Scotland. One of the prophecy that the witches gave to Macbeth was no man born from a woman will harm Macbeth. He went to the battlefield confident that no one can kill him, but Macduff was not born from a woman he was take away from his mom wound because she died before she gave

Lady Macbeth brings out Macbeth’s tragic flaw when she proposes the idea of killing King Duncan and he states, “I have no spur . . . but only vaulting ambition” (1.7.25-27). Once King Duncan has been murdered, this flaw is revealed because his actions reflect on his ambition to stay king. Macbeth begins by planning on killing Banquo and his son because the witches told Banquo “thou shalt get kings, thought thou be none” (1.3.68). Macbeth must kill Banquo and his son, so no one will have the opportunity to take the crown away from him. When Macbeth sends murderers to kill them, Fleance can get away while Banquo is brutally attacked; however, luckily for Macbeth, Fleance is never heard from again. When Macbeth goes to visit the witches again and the first apparition tells him to “beware Macduff” (4.1.71-72), he then realizes he must eliminate any other obstacle that could potentially keep him from staying king. He says he will “give to th’edge o’th’sword his wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls” (4.1.150-151) just to ensure his throne. By doing these horrible deeds, Macbeth proves he is willing to go above and beyond to remain king until his