Sariah Durrant Essay 12 What Makes Good Men Fall (Who is to Blame for the Downfall of Macbeth) There are times when the only thing that can drag good people down are the actions of other people. They can be poisoned by greedy thoughts, or they can be manipulated or tricked by their own minds into falling apart. “Psychopaths don't sit still for science and ordinary people can't be made to think so savagely,” proving that if any normal man attempted to follow the choices of these deranged killers, he would fall to pieces, just Macbeth did (Jeffrey Kluger). Choices are what become us, and because of the multitudinous choices made throughout this play, a man lost everything he once was on his path to power. Macbeth’s descent into madness and insanity can be narrowed down to a few things, such as people and it could’ve been the Witches, Lady Macbeth, or even Macbeth himself. The Witches in Macbeth were the very ones who started the whole downward spiral that swept up Macbeth. With their predictions of his future, they implanted illusions that plagued his mind with poisonous thoughts of grandeur. “All hail, Macbeth, that shalt …show more content…
Without his wife encouraging him to kill King Duncan, he would never have even planned anything so despicable. Lady Macbeth understood that her husband, despite his battle presence, he was “too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness” to take the quickest way to the throne (1.5, line 17, page 334). She had a burning desire within her for the taste of power and she wanted Macbeth to man-up and become king so she could benefit. She masterfully manipulated him and masters “will skillfully gain your sympathy and call upon it at your most vulnerable moments,” (Crime Feed). Lady Macbeth toyed with his mind and completely and utterly manipulated him, shoving him towards his snowball into insanity, alongside of