Who Is Responsible For Macbeth's Downfall

The play, Macbeth, is written by Shakespeare. Macbeth is one of the main characters in the play. He is brave and strong. But his life goes worse and worse. Who lead this happen? It is Macbeth himself. He wants to get more power, so his brain is occurred the evil and wrong ideas. And because he has the ability to make his own choices, he lets evil and wrong ideas into reality. Macbeth is responsible for his own downfall because he is overly ambitious and power hungry. At the beginning, he believes the prediction from the three witches. He is thinking that the prediction “cannot be ill, cannot be good”(1,3,144). His response shows that he is interested in becoming a king. He wants to get the highest power. This also emphasizes that he is only …show more content…
People claim that the witches are more at faults than Macbeth himself, because witches give Macbeth prophecies. They predict Macbeth will be Thane of Cawdor, and he “shalt be king hereafter”(1,3,53). The witches’ prophecies influence Macbeth’s life, but it actually does not make them more at fault than Macbeth himself. The three witches only tell him the future, but they do not tell Macbeth what to do. Macbeth is ambitious to power. He believes the witches’ prophecies, and he writes a letter to Lady Macbeth. Many people think that Lady Macbeth is more at fault than Macbeth himself because she forces Macbeth to kill Duncan. She asks the evil power to “unsex [her]” and “fill [her] from the crown to the toe-full of direst cruelty”(1,5,48-50). She wishes to be as strong as a man, so she persuades Macbeth to murder King Duncan. But it does not prove that Lady Macbeth is more at fault than Macbeth himself. When King Duncan declares Malcolm is the Prince of Cumberland, he has the same idea as Lady Macbeth. He is the one who holds the dagger, walks into Duncan’s bedroom, and stabs the dagger into Duncan’s heart. Lady Macbeth and the witches affect him by using words. But Macbeth takes action. He is the most at fault in the

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