Lady Macbeth's Downfall

In William Shakespeare’s play of Macbeth, the main character is depicted as to be brave and a “Buther” but as the reader continues with the story the outcome of which to wether Macbeth should be blamed for the events in which he committed such traitorous crimes or if he was in the right the entire time for his choices. At the beginning of the story Macbeth is portrayed as a faithful and respectable person however, his character changes when influenced by others manipulating his decisions of doing the right thing rather using his role in the hierarchy for bad. The influences of the witches’ prophecies, the control of lady Macbeth and Macbeths overall ambitions to be greater all play key factors that lead to the downfall of Macbeth and the events …show more content…
An example showing this power is shown when lady Macbeth and Macbeth make love discussing the future of their pronounced kingdom “These deeds must not be thought after these ways. So, it will make us mad." She manipulates his self esteem by playing with his manly power and bravery to turn this evil for her advantage. When Macbeth questions his choices to whether to kill Duncan, Lady Macbeth disowns him when she hears of this change of news. The Lady become successful in changing his desires and appears to be the clear dominative individual in the twisted relationship they have. Lady Macbeth insists he must become great and powerful in the way she can love but due to her ambitions and plans of helping him gain the throne their relationship begins to collapse as the play progresses further. Macbeths love for Macbeth is genuine and passionate aiming to please her every wish for why he follows on with this vision to become king. After the death of king Duncan feelings of their friendship begin to come into consideration forgetting the great thing they once had. Since the first murder, it can to Macbeth he felt the need to continue his killing streak to simply cover up the previous wrongs he’s committed or lose his role in the kingdom. Lady Macbeth influence over Macbeth allows the reader to see Macbeths true side of …show more content…
Macbeth begins to seek his future by overpowering any difficult threats he ventures upon. Macbeths twisted mind makes him progress even further to protect the crown he soon to be will have once plotting to kill Banquo. This moment in the book is a climax as we finally see Macbeth’s ambitions and plans he has had all along. Obsessed with becoming king his emotion and feeling towards lady Macbeth and their children becomes a second priority horribly killing them all from this he does not realise what he was doing to himself choosing his reign to be over his own family thinking he is more powerful but this leads to a tragic and fatal downfall for his character. Due to the crown Macbeth changes into a ruthless, immoral monster that is so corrupt he is falling into his own ruin. The decisions made by Macbeth were entirely up to him at the end of the day to why he made these events occur all due to his “vaulting ambition” due to this taking these crimes into his own hands without the help of anyone pushing him is morally the reason for why his character turns into such a selfish and frantic

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