Macbeth Is To Blame Essay

The tragedy of Macbeth is a well known play by William Shakespeare. Most people have heard of this story, but many may not know who is at fault for the events. In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, different people play roles in the events that lead up to a great many tragedies, but Macbeth is the character who is most responsible because he killed Duncan, planned the murder of Banquo, and had Macduff’s family killed purely out of spite. Macbeth was told that he would become king while the current king still was alive. The king, Duncan, happened to be Macbeth’s friend. Macbeth and his wife planned to murder him in his sleep to ensure that Macbeth would rule as the new king. Macbeth followed through with their plan, coming back to his wife holding

Macbeth hired three murderers to do it for him. He explained to them that their lives were only horrible because of Banquo. He made them believe that everything going against them in life was due to Banquo. “So is he mine; and in such bloody distance that every minute of his being thrusts against my near’st life. And though I could with barefaced power sweep him from my sight and bid my will avouchit, yet I must not, for certain friends that are both his and mine, whose loves I may not drop, but wail his fall who I myself struck down. And thence it is, that I to your assistance do make love, masking the business from the common eye for sundry weight reasons,” (Shakespeare pg. 92). He stated that he would kill Banquo himself, but they have powerful mutual friends that he would like to keep. He didn’t say that he wouldn’t kill him for moral reasons or for the fact that Banquo has been close to him for a long time. Macbeth showed no doubt that he wanted this to

He was reluctant to kill his friend, and Lady Macbeth pressured him into murdering him. Macbeth told Lady Macbeth, “We will proceed no further in this business,”(Shakespeare pg. 42). To which she responded, “Was the hope drunk wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale at what it did so freely? From this time such I account thy love. 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?” (Shakespeare pg 42). She essentially told him that he is a coward if he doesn’t act on his desires. Even then, Macbeth chose to go through with the plan. Lady Macbeth never threatened him or actually made him. No one made him stab