Lady Macbeth Is Responsible for the Fall of Macbeth

Lady Macbeth is responsible for the fall of her husband It can be said that Lady Macbeth is responsible for the fall of Macbeth. I believe that she was partly responsible for this. I believe that two sets of people are responsible for the fall of Macbeth.. Secondly I believe that Lady Macbeth is responsible for his fall. She urges him to kill Duncan questioning his manly-hood and saying that he was too kind. Finally I believe that the witches played a huge part in the fall of Macbeth. The witches put the thought of being king into Macbeth’s head in the first place.
They also convinced him that he was invincible and this caused his ultimate death. I believe that Lady Macbeth is partly responsible for the fall of Macbeth. She plans and forces Macbeth to murder starting the chain reaction to his downfall. When Lady Macbeth read the letter that Macbeth sent her about his encounter with the witches she immediately starts planning Duncan’s murder. “The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements” Lady Macbeth plans the whole murder and if Duncan had not looked like her father she would have done it herself. Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done’t” She forces Macbeth to carry out the murder even though he expresses that he doesnt want to do it. “We will proceed no further in this business:” “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition ,which o’erlaps itself And falls on the other” Lady Macbeth accuses Macbeth of not loving her and questions his manly-hood in order to manipulate him into murdering Duncan. “When you durst do it then you were a man, And to be a more to be that what you were, you would e so much more the man” Lady Macbeth uses Macbeth’s lack of confidence to win him over and force him to finish the murder. “Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? ” She thinks he is too “full of the milk of kindness” to fulfil the deed. This forced Lady Macbeth to convince him and manipulate him into killing Duncan. We see Lady Macbeth transform throughout the play. At the start of the play she may have been the catalyst to Macbeth rise and fall from power but by the end of the play she didn’t feature.
She lost control of her mind from the guilt was suffering. Once Macbeth was king the relationship between the two disintegrated and they no longer confided in one another. Macbeth showed his true colours when he ordered for all the Macduff family to be killed, children and all. Lady Macbeth had nothing to do with this and therefore cannot be blamed entirely for Macbeth’s fall and ultimate death. Secondly, I believe that Macbeth was in some ways responsible for his own downfall. He was ambitious and strived to be the king.

Once he became King he strived to stay King and became very suspicious and paranoid of all people in his country. Finally, the witches are partly responsible for Macbeth’s downfall. They meet Macbeth and Banquo on the way home from battle and they meet three witches. The witches tell Macbeth that he will become Thane of Cawdor and eventually King of Scotland. “All hail Macbeth! Hail to thee Thane of Glamis” “All Hail Macbeth! Hail to thee Thane of Cawdor” “All Hail Macbeth! Thou shalt be king hereafter.! ”
At first Macbeth doesn’t believe them but when he becomes Thane of Cawdor things start to make sense to him. After this he starts getting murderous thought and the fall of Macbeth begins. Macbeth is ambitious and his personality changes when he believes he can be king. He loses all his nobility and honour. “Glamis and Thane of Cawdor! The greatest is behind! ” The witches also play another role in the fall and ultimate death of Macbeth. Macbeth goes to the witches a second time to find out his future. They tell him the future in the form of three apparitions.
They tell him that he must beware of Macduff, he cannot be killed by man born of woman and he will die when the Great Birnam Woods come to Dunsinane. “Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff; Beware the thane of Fife. ” “Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth. ” “Be lion-melted, proud; and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are: Macbeth shall never vanquish’d be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him. ”
He believes every word of the witches to be gospel and this cause his ultimate death. He is convinced that he cannot die that he is invincible. When Macduff confronts Macbeth he tells him of their prophecy. As a result of the prophecy Macbeth believes he is invincible and this allows Macduff and his troops to get very close to Macbeth and this causes his death at the end of the play. “I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one born of woman” The witches manipulated Macbeth into thinking he could fulfil the prophecy and become King of Scotland