Macbeth Was Responsible For His Own Downfall Essay -- essays research

Macbeth is the driving force behind Macbeths d avowfallLady Macbeth? The driving force behind Macbeths downfall? Certainly non. Macbeth was completely and solely responsible for all the acts of great black which were to lead to his downfall, and to even suggest the blame can be shifted on his wife is ludicrous.      From his very introductory meeting with the witches, Macbeths mind became right off plagued with thoughts of murder and treachery. The guilty start that Banquo noniced      "Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear      Things that do sound so fair?"showed us that the thought of murder was already at the back of his mind. This showed us that Macbeth could not score been as honourable and trustworthy as people believed him to be, tending(p) that if he had had but a shred of integrity, murder would have been the uttermost thing on his mind. The witches cannot corrupt the virtuous (like Banquo) , they can work lonesome(prenominal) on the evil that they already find in their victims mind. At this point, Macbeth (and everyone else), was not aware of this evil inside of him, which is why he was so horrified by the hideous imaginings that spring to mind. He was shitless of speaking of his "black and deep desires" openly, even to himself. For this reason, he sends a earn to his wife, explaining the situation, hoping that the thought of murder would cross her mind, and he wont have to be the one to bring it up. On receiving the letter, Lady Macbeths first thought (as Macbeth had hoped it would be) was one of murder. She was just as ambitious, if not more so, than her husband, so much so that she would do anything, even conspire to commit murder, to indispensability what she wanted in the end. However, she was not an evil woman, which is why she felt the need to call on the powers of darkness to aid her in what she was about to do       &n bsp            "Come, you spirits          That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,          And fill me from the meridian to the toe top-full          Of direst cruelty make thick my blood &q... ...ad. Earlier, she had dismissed the be of Duncans murder, but now she admits to herself what she knew all along, that     "All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand" In the end, she can no time-consuming cope with the guilt, and in the words of Malcolm in the last scene of the play.     "Who, as tis thought, by self and violent hands      Took of her life-"It seems now that Lady Macbeth must have been less strong, and not as evil as Macbeth. When she took severalise in the planning of the murder of Duncan, she felt s o guilty in the long run that she felt she had to take her own life. However, Macbeth has performed crimes that are a lot worse than the crime his wife committed, but he has not decided to do anything as drastic as taking his own life.It is in Act 5 scene 5 that Macbeth shows us the consecutive extent of his insanity. He has lost the capacity to feel fear (for his inescapable death), and grief (for his dead wife). It is in Act 5 Scene 7 that Macbeths life comes to an abrupt end, and no one grieves him. He died a tyrant and a murderer, all through his own fault.