Essay Who Is To Blame In Macbeth

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In the play Macbeth there was a lot of stuff that went on that could keep the reader interested. One of these things are all of the murders in the play. With all these murders happening, there has to be someone to blame. In the play Lady Macbeth is to blame for the murders because she called evil upon herself, influenced Macbeth to be a murder, and she wanted power.
Lady Macbeth was the blame for the murders, and the first reason is because she called evil upon herself. In the play she called evil upon herself when the text states, “Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe topful Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood; stop up the access and passage to remorse, that no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between the effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, and take my milk for gall.” This shows she was to blame for the murders because she basically was saying that she wants to turned into a cold blooded killer. She wanted to remove her woman traits because …show more content…

She influenced Macbeth in the play when the text states, “But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey soundly invite him his two chamberlains will I with wine and wassail so convince that memory, the warder of the brain, shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason a limbeck only: when in swinish sleep their drenched natures lie as in a death, what cannot you and I perform upon the unguarded Duncan? what not put upon his spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt of our great quell?” This is showing influence on Macbeth because she is saying that there will be no failing and that it needs to be done with a plan. She has to convince him to do it because she can’t which makes her the blame for the murders. Lady Macbeth is also the blame because she wanted