Who Is To Blame For Lady Macbeth's Downfall

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Lady Macbeth was a misunderstood, who wanted to be a loyal wife to her husband. She wanted the best for Macbeth. She wasn’t your average wife.
Lady Macbeth was a crazy, loyal, wife who wanted to be by her husband side. She may have been manipulative, evil, crazy, but she had a courageous, ambitious, determined mind to make her husband the best King of Scotland. Lady Macbeth wanted Macbeth to be a great King “glams thou art and coward / what thou art promised yet do I fear thy nature: is too full to’ th' milk of human kindness (1.5.15-17). She may not know everything about being Queen but to have faith and to believe that Macbeth can do it shows the loyalty she is to her husband. Lady Macbeth shows us that standing by your husband through thick and thin as husband and wife shows true marriage.
Lady Macbeth wasn’t to blame for the murders. She was just trying to save her husband, who did a wrong thing. She may have been manipulating him to go through with the murder of King Duncan, yet she didn’t do it. “When you do it, then you are a man” don’t say you are going to do something and not go through with
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She wasn’t the best wife, but who really is the best wife. But what Lady Macbeth did was all for the love and loyalty she had towards Macbeth. She took back the daggers for him, “these deeds must not be thought after these / ways; so it will make us mad “(2.245-46). It wasn’t until after Duncan was murder that Lady Macbeth’s guilty conscience got to her. She couldn’t handle the murders and how guilty it made her feel. How could she live the rest of her life knowing what she did? “Had he not resemble my father as he slept I had done it “but yet she didn’t do it. (2.2.16-17). the fact that Duncan looked like her father she didn’t do the killing. The pain and guilt that comes with violence and crimes suffers you inside because you know you can’t say anything for the love you have for your