Are The Witches To Blame In Macbeth

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As I mentioned above, many critics believe the witches are responsible for Macbeth’s decision to kill Duncan; consequently for his ruin. It is true they, in a way, open for him the possibility to be a king but it would be only his decision whether to make a crime. I believe the witches only fasten the decision of Macbeth to kill the King. I could not agree more with the view about the witches’ influence on Macbeth’s decision to kill Duncan from the English scholar R. A. Foakes, “It seems plain that he has thought of such a possibility before meeting the witches, or at least that his starting at their greetings of him (I. iii. 51) registers his awareness at this moment that what they say gives conscious expression to a half-formed image; and