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Lady Macbeth Is To Blame

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Could this have been persuasion from a crazy power hungry wife, or just the acts of an arrogant self obsessed man? KIng Duncan is murdered and the two suspects have been narrowed down to Lady Macbeth and Macbeth himself. Clearly, the fault of this heinous crime has been placed on Macbeth. While Macbeth is a hero, he is also the one to point a finger to about this death. Macbeth is hungry for power, and he will literally fight to the death for it; even if he loses his head in the process.
Macbeth behaves like a middle school aged girl who hears information about her crush and who they like: he hears information about something he wants and therefore he stops at nothing to continue to achieve more information. “Say from whence you owe this …show more content…

Being pushed around is allowing someone or others to take advantage of one’s self. Macbeth thought for himself. “All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter,” (Shakespeare 1.3.50). After the idea of being king had been placed inside Macbeth’s mind, he thought for himself. Every action had been carried out and finished by him. Nobody told him he absolutely had to kill the king. Macbeth wanted to kill the king, and he wanted to gain more power. “...and you shall put this night’s great business into my dispatch which shall to all our nights and days to come give solely sovereign sway and masterdom,” (Shakespeare 1.5.65). Lady Macbeth tells him this night will change their lives forever. That Macbeth’s actions hold the fate of this couple. Macbeth keeps the idea from Lady Macbeth in his head, but his actions are his fault. Not one single person can be responsible for another person’s actions. We have a choice, listen or do not …show more content…

A great warrior who has conquered many people. Obviously he has power. However, this power had not been enough to quench his thirst. “Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill,” (Shakespeare 3.2.55). Bad things become stronger by more bad things. Macbeth had been speaking with Lady Macbeth, and here he is telling her how he is prepared to do ill-hearted things to achieve power. Macbeth literally tells her that he is willing to kill again. Not a single soul told him or placed that idea in his head. “Tomorrow we’ll hear ourselves again,” (Shakespeare 3.4.31-32). Macbeth states that they will have power. Not only a little bit, but more power than what they would have received had he not killed the king. Power can be a very dangerous goal to chase

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He acted because his first prophecy came true about being thane of cawdor. Macbeth is convinced after a talk with his wife he finally decided to kill Duncan. In this part it shows how greedy Macbeth and lady Macbeth are in the beginning. “Cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill, why hath it given me earnest of success, commencing”. (Macbeth Act 1 scene 2 lines 139-40)

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Yes. I do think that Macbeth had thought about being king before he had ran into the witches. I think this because the sergent was telling how Macbeth had killed the Macdonwald by splitting him from the belly button to the jaw. I think this raving of how Macbeth was great for killing this evil person made him feel accomplished and made him extremely happy. Soon after this sharing of news Duncan calls him a worthy gentlemen.

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“Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act of the imperial theme” (Shakespeare 1.3 136-138). Lady Macbeth may have pushed Macbeth but he killed the former king and others to make himself king. Macbeth has the blood on his hands, he was not forced into killing anyone he did that out of his own desire to become king. Macbeth wanted to be king because he had the insight to what his future held which fueled his ambition and drive to become

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Right before Macbeth is about to kill the king, he has second thoughts. Lady Macbeth talked him back into it. In the play she said, “Art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act and valor as thou art desire.” (pg-43). Telling Macbeth that if he doesn't kill the king that he wouldn’t live up to his prophecy like the witches said that he would.

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Macbeth was working toward being the king of Scotland in the beginning after meeting the three wired sisters. And being told that he was king to be, so it inspired him to do anything that he had to to become king. It did not matter the circumstances he would do it. Even if that meant killing his best friend. He down was cause by him killing Macduff’s family.

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William Shakespeare, playwright of Macbeth, shows the importance that power and corruption can hold on a person’s humanity. In order to prove the true effect of personal gains, he uses the main character, Macbeth, to show how evil people are willing to become. Personal power has the ability to be essential to greatness, but at the same time is able to destroy a person’s true nature. Believe it or not, Macbeth once was a man of honor. At the beginning of the play, Macbeth was loyal to King Duncan, a strong military leader, and a respected husband.

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(1.4.50-55) Macbeth becomes consumed by what the witches tell him. It leads to the point where his unconscious mind resorts to murder. He begins to exert desperate measures, unaware of the repercussions to come. The longer he lingers on the prophecies, the uglier his actions and thoughts become.

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Even Macbeth himself accepts responsibility for the act, “I’ll go no more: I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on't again I dare not.” (2.2.51-53) Despite the fact that he is convinced he is taking the right course of action, directly following the act he regrets it. He does not blame Lady Macbeth for he knows he is to blame, and she is forced metaphorically clean up his mess by making a mess of the

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Macbeth chose to listen and accept the prophecy as truth even though he had no proof. Although the witches influence Macbeth they did not suggest to Macbeth to kill the king, he got that idea from his selfish thoughts. After the witches visit Macbeth he goes to his wife about his thoughts of killing the king. Lady Macbeth encourages murder because that’s the only way she thinks Macbeth can become king.

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Macbeth was the Thane of Cawdor but he wanted to be king more than anything. The witches had told him that he would one day be king but he did not know how long that would take so when King Duncan had been invited to stay the night at his house he exclaimed that “My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,/ shakes so my single state of man/ that function is smother 'd in surmise,/ and nothing is but what is not”(1.3.52-55). He felt that if he were to kill King Duncan that he would have a better chance of becoming king. Though the witches had never told him that someone would need to get murdered for him to become king, his ambition tempted him to quicken this process the only way he felt he could. This was the beginning of the murderer that the witches had created with the fortune telling.

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From honored soldier to murderous tyrant, Macbeth killed his way into power. He was informed of his “destiny” and stopped at nothing to achieve it. He had multiple chances to rethink his actions. He didn 't however, he kept on his march to power leaving only himself to blame. Macbeth is the only one to blame for his actions and ultimately, his death.

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Macbeth begins to make selfish decisions that he knows only will benefit himself. “For mine own good, all causes shall give way. I am in blood stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er” (III.iv.140-145).

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Macbeth’s ambition is one of the most prominent things that drive Macbeth in the play and truly becomes evident when he hears of the Witches prophecies. When the witches stop talking, he demands to know more. “Stay you imperfect speakers, tell me more” (I, III, 73-74). This portrays his excessive curiosity on the subject as well as his craving for more desirable prophecies. This ambitious nature and craving for power is also demonstrated only moments after hearing the witches, when he starts formulating a plan to kill Duncan in order to make the third prophecy come true.

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The witches did give his apparition but they didn 't tell him to kill the King and while murder passed Macbeth’s mind he never truly had the guts to go kill the King. On the other hand, Lady Macbeth had this whole plan and the confidence to execute it, she was the only one from everybody else that was actually willing to commit a crime for the throne. Her confidence and her ambitious personality convinces Macbeth and made him kill the King but even after he killed the kill he never really sure if he wanted to go this way and receive the power with doing a dastardly deed. Later the continuous support leads him to become heartless and made him oblivious to his downfall. Lady Macbeth’s techniques to convincing Macbeth and her greed and her ambitious personality lead Macbeth 's undoing and caused him to suffer through agony.

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