Examples Of Cause And Effect In Macbeth

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As in real life, every action has a reaction. In other terms, every cause has an effect. In William Shakespeare's, The Tragedy of Macbeth, one can find an abundance of causes and effects. In Fact, that is essentially what this play is; a pyramid of cause and effect. Three instances in which cause and effect play a major role in this play are when lady Macbeth is possessed by a demon which leads her to go crazy and die of unknown reasons, when Macbeth is cursed by hecate with fatal arrogance which then takes no caution in his actions and fights to his death, and lastly, King Duncan's murder leads to his son Malcolm to plot a rebellion against Macbeth. To start off the change of events, Lady Macbeth is thought to be summoning demons in Act