That all changes when he returns home after telling his wife what had happened. She says “ Make thick my blood/ Stop up th’access and passage to remorse” (1.5 33-34) Lady Macbeth is the one who encourages Macbeth to become King. Now that they both believe that Macbeth is going to become king, there is nothing that will get in their way. Soon after, Macbeth decides that one of the only ways that he is going to become king, is to kill the current king, Duncan. He realized that the plan might not be reasonable and he started to second guess himself.
Another prophecy made by the witches was that Banquo's son will be king. Fuelled by paranoia, lack of sleep andvisions, Macbeth was thrown into a state of confusion and a belief that the prophecies were inevitable. Lady Macbeth urged her husband to commit murder and it was this action that sparked Macbeth's downfall. When Lady Macbeth heard about the prophecies made by the witches, and how one of them had already come true, she called upon evil spirits to guide her through her task - killing the king. ."..
He is established as a good character in the play and it is apparent that he had no real ambitions until he met the witches. They influenced him to make him hungry for what they prophesized about his future “All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis… Thane of Cawdor… All hail Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter”. Therefore it is evident that Macbeth had no real ambition to get what the witches had foretold, but this meeting with them did in fact play the main role to the beginning of his ambitions showing and being put forward. Lady Macbeth plays a role in Macbeth’s downfall. She pushes for Macbeth to do the unthinkable all so that they may become Kind and Queen.
They said that one day he will become King of Scotland. Macbeth became devoured by ambition and was pushed by his wife to murder King Duncan and seize the throne for himself. Slowly becoming deranged and filled with guilt he became a cruel ruler as he was forced to commit more murders in order to protect him from malice and suspicion. The bloodbath and fighting quickly took Macbeth and his wife into the domain of pride, hysteria, and death. In all fairness, Lady Macbeth was a strong and influential character at the start of the play in Macbeth’s life but it is not a justification for what happened.
It was his decision and he made it in a clear mind with the goal of becoming King. Macbeth was definitely not a villain before he was the Thane of Cawdor.A couple of forces might have drove Macbeth to cause all his crimes. The most evident of the forces that causes Macbeth kill Duncan is Lady Macbeth. Macbeth is very baffled about the prediction and he almost decided to not go forward with the deed when Lady Macbeth entices him to kill Duncan by telling him he is fragile and lacks masculinity. She has a lot more ambition than Macbeth and hopes that he succeeds so she can benefit from all the killings.
The witches never told Macbeth to kill; they merely stated that he was to become king. Macbeth makes the choice himself. Their prophecies were believed by Macbeth and lead him with a tormenting need for power where he kills in order to achieve his goals. Macbeth falls on his own accord because of how he chooses to let the supernatural govern his actions. One can look at Macbeth’s actions as the play unravels and see that he is clearly headed down a path towards disaster resulting from one source: his ambition.
that is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’er-leap, for in my way it lies” (I.IV.55-57). With the help of his wife, Lady Macbeth, Macbeth was able to take a dagger and kill the present King of Scotland, Duncan. “My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so that my single state of man that function in smother’d in surmise, and nothing is what but is not”(I.iii.52-55). His ambition becomes so powerful he begins to think the witches are the ones who told him to murder Duncan! His first thought was killing the King, so they may have triggered his murderous ambition that has been
Besides Macbeth, Lady Macbeth also shows her character is deceiving by planning how Duncan will be killed. At the end of the play she dies because the guilt from helping to kill Duncan was too much of a burden on her conscience. Lastly, the witches are deceiving characters because they give confusing prophecies. Macbeth misinterprets the confusing prophecies which later lead to his tragic death. There are many appearances that show characters in the play Macbeth are deceiving, ultimately leading to tragedy.
Often times we struggle to find the right balance between too much and two little of a certain something. Ambition is the strong desire to attain success in an individual’s life. The protagonist Macbeth, induced by ambition, finds himself on a downwards spiral towards his own self destruction. In Macbeth, William Shakespeare conveys that extreme ambition has a potent effect on leading ones fate in a harmful or advantageous way, resulting in either a rise in power or tragic downfall. Macbeth is characterized, as an exceptionally noble person being both loyal and honourable.
Lady Macbeth was one Shakespeare’s most courageous female characters. She convinced her husband to cruelly kill Duncan and urged him to be strong in the murder’s aftermath. Fortunately she was eventually scarred by the effect of Macbeth’s animosity towards her. In each case, ambition—helped, of course, by the hurtful predictions of the witches that’s what drove the couple to extreme insanity. The problem, the play suggests, is that once someone decides to use violence to further their quest for power, it is difficult to stop them.