Who caused the down fall of Macbeth? Throughout William Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Macbeth", there were many people who lost their lives in Macbeth's reign as king. When this number of people die, you must ask yourself, who is at fault for this blood shed? People have come up with many different theories on who the mastermind is, but the person who is really at fault for the fall of King Macbeth and the deaths of hundreds of people is his own wife, Lady Macbeth. In the beginning of “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, Macbeth was tempted with words of the future from three witches. The witches told Macbeth, “All hail Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis! All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter!” …show more content…
As soon as Macbeth comes home from his huge battle, the first thing that she tells Macbeth is, “May read strange matters. To beguile the time, look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue: look like th’ innocent flower, but be the serpent under ‘t.” (1.5. 63-66. 336.) She is already making plans to kill the King and tells her husband to deceive his friends and his king and when they get close enough to the flower to smell it, he is to bite them like a snake. It’s easy to resist temptation from weird looking people that you don’t even know, but when the person that is supposed to be your better half and companion says that the idea is a good idea and should be done, why would you doubt them? Lady Macbeth knew that her husband trusted her and used that to get the power she wanted. Lady Macbeth was so craved for power that she told her husband “Art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act and valor as thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that which thou esteem’st the ornament of life, and live a coward in thine own esteem letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would,” like the poor cat I’ th’ adage?” (1.7. 39-45. 338.) Lady Macbeth basically be littles her husband and tells him that he is not a man and a coward if he doesn’t do what she says. She goes on to say later in the act, “How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me: I would: while it was smiling in