Macbeth comes into contact with a lot of influences that contribute to his admittedly weak minded nature. Lady Macbeth is the most prominent influence on Macbeth, she is a driving force behind most of his actions during the play. Lady Macbeth, an outside factor, with her manipulative mind and great ambition, was the greatest factor that contributed to the tragic downfall of Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is an ambitious being at heart, she wants to rise to the top of any metaphorical food chain she is faced
In most tragic plays, the protagonist ends up having a horrendous downfall caused by themselves or someone around them. Shakespeare’s tragedies usually end the same way. In the play Macbeth, Macbeth ends up with his head being cut from his body. In this play, Macbeth's downfall is caused by himself and Lady Macbeth. Macbeth causes his own downfall with his own actions. Macbeth, when he sees the bloody dagger, thinks that it is a sign to kill Duncan, so he kills Duncan in his sleep. When Macbeth
natural catastrophe. An example of great tragedy in my words is “Macbeth”, one of Shakespeare’s darkest and most powerful plays’. The question I will be answering today is ‘who is responsible for Macbeths downfall?’ The Witches and Lady Macbeth are largely responsible for Macbeth’s downfall, although he himself is too. Macbeth, encouraged by his wife, attempts to eliminate the obstacles preventing him from being king. These obstacles happen to be other characters in the play. He accepts the prophecy
uses this confusion in his works such as Macbeth. Throughout the play Macbeth, William Shakespeare uses the confusion between appearance and reality to characterize the downfall of Macbeth. At the beginning of the play, Shakespeare uses the confusion between appearance and reality to characterize the beginning of Macbeth’s downfall. The witches introduce the theme of appearance and reality when the witches announce “Fair is foul, and foul is fair/Hover through the fog and filthy air” (1.1.12-13).
Though it can be reasoned, in the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth was the main reason for Macbeth’s downfall due to prosecession; the real person responsible for the downfall of Macbeth is himself. In the Elizabethan time, which was in the period in which Macbeth is taken place, people truly believed in witches and their evil supernatural powers. Macbeth was the person to blame, in the play, because of his strong connection to the witches, writes to his wife for motivation, and
characters which further contribute to Macbeth’s impending fate. Early in the play, the reader is introduced to the three witches, who plant the seeds inside Macbeth, sparking his ambition and leading him to elicit his eventual downfall. Likewise, Lady Macbeth further kindles her husbands growing ambition as she manipulates him to cross the line into a world of never-ending madness. Despite being heavily influenced by the witches and his wife, it was Macbeth’s sole actions which inevitably resulted
becomes a tyrant leader who is willing to murder anyone who is a threat and gets in his way. The key factors that lead to Macbeth's tragic downfall are caused by Macbeth’s actions, Lady Macbeth's persuasions and the prophecies of the three witches. Every man is responsible for his own destiny. In Shakespeare’s
three witches. Macbeth's wife, Lady Macbeth, is instrumental in Macbeth's ambition, urging him on when he fears he is doing the wrong thing. Later in the play, Lady Macbeth's own conscience begins to torture her and she imagines that she can see her hands covered with blood. Consequently, she commits suicide while Macduff kills Macbeth and Malcolm becomes king. By the end of the play, it is conveyed that Macbeth’s downfall is caused by both, himself and outside forces such as Lady Macbeth and the
Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, a short and extremely bloody tragedy, shows the development of a very power hungry Scottish general. Macbeth’s desire for power played the biggest role in future repercussions and eventually his own downfall. Macbeth’s desire for immense power leads to a civil war, a broken marriage, and the death of him and his wife. To begin, Macbeth’s actions to achieve total power created an opportunity for the uprising of the civil war. While Macbeth awaited thousands of troops
Shakespeare, there are three witches, whose predictions lead Macbeth to murder King Duncan. Macbeth is a Scottish general, and he is power-hungry, so he decided to kill King Duncan for the throne. In comparison to Macbeth, Macbeth’s wife, Lady Macbeth is more ambitious. In their relationship, Lady Macbeth seems like the one who is in control; she persuaded Macbeth to murder king Duncan when Macbeth was contemplating about it. Banquo is general who encountered the three witches with Macbeth, and the witches