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Who is more to blame for Macbeth’s downfall, Macbeth or Lady Macbeth?

Macbeth was having hallucinations about killing the King.

He was already set upon killing King Duncan even after he named Malcolm the new King.

Macbeth came up with the plan to kill the King.

Macbeth

Lady Macbeth

Right after the witches came to him and Banquo, Macbeth was feeling a little sceptical. Him and Banquo had a good laugh about the prophecies until the messenger came. As soon as the first prophecy was fulfilled, Macbeth was desperate to make the last one come true. His thoughts instantly turned to murder. There was no consideration of waiting and seeing if it would come true on its own, he instantly decided that murder was the only way to fulfil his goal.

Obsessed with the prophecies.

After Duncan named his son the next king, Macbeth was still planning on killing him. Malcolm would only be a small hurdle in his plan. This shows that Macbeth must have been evil to decide to murder someone else that quickly.

Lady Macbeth pressured Macbeth to kill the king

Macbeth’s mind was plagued with murder. When he was trying to talk himself out of killing the king, a dagger appeared. A trick of the mind that his bloodthirsty ambition played on him. The dagger led him to Duncan, where he committed murder. The dagger was a sign that he truly did want to kill the king.

She convinced him to murder Duncan, believeing that the power would bring them happiness.

Macbeth seemed obsessed with the prophecies. He killed someone to make the first come true, and he killed his friend to keep another from coming true. Banquo was his best friend, and he had him assassinated because of the prophecy.

She manipulated him

Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth to act like nothing is wrong when Duncan comes, and pretend like everything is normal. Another example would be when she fainted after "hearing the news" of Duncan's death in the morning.

Devious and Ambitious

Once he became king, he wasn’t satisfied and killed Banquo to prevent the other prophecy from coming true.

Sneaky

Power-hungry

Doesn’t care about people in general at the end of the play.

With her seuctive ways and her false-confidence, Lady Macbeth manipulated Macbeth into doing the things she wanted, in her thirst for power.

Crazy

Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth that they can not go through with the plan to kill Duncan, but Lady Macbeth changes his mind once again by calling him a coward and telling him he's not a real man.

Lady Macbeth wanted power even more than Macbeth himself, but after the first murder, the power and bloodlust went straight to Macbeth's head, all thanks to Lady Macbeth.

At the end of the play, most of his troops desert him and fight against them. They hated him as a human being. He didn’t care that his wife was ill. When he finally cared about his wife and people, was when she died.

Macbeth knew that he was going crazy when he was talking about how no one would sleep after he killed the king. He seemed very crazy when he was following an imaginary dagger to the King's chamber. He seemed most crazy to his friends when he claimed to see a ghost sitting in his chair. I think that Macbeth went crazy with guilt. Still it cried," sleep no more!" to all the house: "Glamis hath murder’d sleep: and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more!" pg. 81

Lady Macbeth only encouraged him.

Craziness

Lady Macbeth didn’t even have to tell him to kill Banquo. Macbeth did not tell her anything about it until it was done. The other prophecy scared Macbeth, since he was so power hungry. Anyone that could possibly overthrow him had to go. I think that he just needed an excuse to kill again. Banquo was his best friend, no one just turns on the friends that quickly. Macbeth was good at finding excuses to have people killed. Example, Macduff’s wife and kids.

Doesn’t feel bad about killing anyone

So ambitious that it didn’t take much prompting to convince him to kill anyone

Suicide

Her insanity and sleepwalking took a toll on Macbeth as well, making him almost as emotionally unstable as she became.

Macbeth already had the scheme to kill the king prepared, and Lady Macbeth encouraged it. She played on his ambitious nature and resorted to calling him a coward. Lady Macbeth seemed to know what buttons to push to keep him from listening to his conscious. When she called him a coward he seemed more determined to prove her wrong.

Macbeth feels no sympathy for killing Duncan, Banquo or for driving Scotland down. As long as he is king, he is right and people are wrong. He didn’t even think when he ordered Macduff’s wife’s murder. The only right in his mind was what he was doing. Scotland hated him, since he was ruining the people and he couldn’t see that.

Macbeth convinced himself to kill most of the people in the book. He only needed an excuse for them. He was so bloodthristy, and ambitious. So ambitious that he killed anyone in his way. Example, Banquo, and Macduff’s wife and kids.

Lady Macbeth's suicide was the final thing that drove Macbeth over the edge; when he lost her, he felt that he truly had lost everything, and so there was nothing left to lose, ending in his downfall.

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