Everyone at some point in their life needs to face their mistakes because if they do not, their mistakes and bad deeds can cause on to decline. In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Macbeth, and his wife Lady Macbeth began to decline when faced with the guilt and suspicions of being involved in King Duncan’s death. However, Macbeth and lady Macbeth both decline the way in which they decline is different in order to display their true nature. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s decline foreshadows the witches prophecy; “All hail Macbeth! That shalt be king hereafter” (1.3.50).
He has becomes obsessed with preventing the overthrow of him as a king. Some may say Macbeth became stronger as the play went on, but evidences shows he had become weaker as the haunting of the ghost Banquo broke him down to a point where he was questionably insane. He relied far too much on the prophecies and the supernatural, which in the end was his downfall. Towards the end of the play Lady Macbeth has died and the battle is drawing closer to Macbeth. After hearing the news of Lady Macbeth’s death Macbeth appears unemotional “She should have died hereafter;…” Macbeth is overly confident due to the witch’s prophecies telling him that anyone born from a woman cannot harm him.
who is to blame for the downfall of macbeth? In William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth, the protagonist, Macbeth, is portrayed as a tragic hero who suffers a downfall due to his fatal flaw. In Macbeth’s case, his fatal flaw is his “vaulting ambition”. People and ideas can greatly affect the outcome of a person’s life, determining whether the outcome will be successful or disastrous. Decisions and actions can also influence the outcome.
And finally, Macbeth’s own ambition was to blame. Blinded by his greed he became an evil monster that could not be controlled. Why should anyone else be held responsible when really Macbeth was the one who should be accountable of his own actions? The witches set up the fire that was soon to become the undoing of Macbeth. They told him a self-fulfilling prophecy and by doing so, his ambition kicked into play.
The witches give Banquo the prediction of “‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none’ ” (Shakespeare 9). The reason to blame the witches is because before this prediction Macbeth and Banquo were best friends. Then when Macbeth becomes king he fears that Banquo will try to kill him because he knows that Banquo’s heirs will some day have the crown. Macbeth no longer trusts Banquo and is driving crazy thinking that his friend will come after just to make sure that Macbeth’s heirs will never get the crown, so Macbeth orders the death of both Banquo and his son to make sure that there is no one else to take the crown away from him. The only reason Banquo is murdered is because Macbeth becomes paranoid after the witches prediction.
If the witches didn’t initiate the thought of murder within Macbeths mind, then the murders may have never been committed and the whole mayhem of events may have never began. Although Macbeth was convinced by the witches, they were not the only ones to make Macbeth commit the murders. Lady Macbeth helped in convincing Macbeth to kill Duncan so he could be king by trying to persuade by emasculating him to do it so they could have a better life. After Macbeth started having doubts about murdering Duncan, Lady Macbeth challenged Macbeth’s courage and
How is Macbeth showing ambition and treachery in Act 3 Scene 1? The murder of Duncan has successfully been completed without the murderer whose hands are dripping with blood being identified. Macbeth fears the very thought of exposure and intends to remain a neutral part in the death of Duncan. However, it is soon comprehended by Macbeth that the reality that has played out in front of him lies truthful to the witches’ prophecies which he was educated of when accompanied by Banquo. This causes Macbeth to question whether Banquo will become aware of his sins in order to grasp the throne and unveil him as a murderer before the nation.
As we can see through Shakespeare’s writing, power cannot produce happiness nor satisfaction. In Macbeths pursuit of power his wife, Lady Macbeth pushes him into killing King Duncan. Right before Macbeth kills him he has already begun his guilt ridden kingship. This is illustrated when he sees “A dagger of the mind…” which is the creation of the
The witches’ prophesies create Macbeth’s lust for power. They steer his mind on a path. This is a path that he would have inevitably followed but did not have the courage to do so. Then Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth to commit the murder of King Duncan. This murder leads to the death of many people that may not have died if Macbeth did not kill Duncan.
In the beginning of the scenes Macbeth goes from noble, to guilt-ridden. He is pushed by his wife Lady Macbeth into killing king Duncan. His head is filled with thoughts of becoming king ,and that this little task is all that is needed for him to rule the throne and gain power. He knows that it is the wrong thing to do, yet the thought of becoming king overwhelms him