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    Lady Macbeth is responsible for the fall of her husband It can be said that Lady Macbeth is responsible for the fall of Macbeth. I believe that she was partly responsible for this. I believe that two sets of people are responsible for the fall of Macbeth.. Secondly I believe that Lady Macbeth is responsible for his fall. She urges him to kill Duncan questioning his manly-hood and saying that he was too kind. Finally I believe that the witches played a huge part in the fall of Macbeth. The witches

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    Macbeth Essay Macbeth is the story of a man who‚ finding himself faced with a moment of choice‚ lets the bad side of his nature dominate him. He considers his choices carefully‚ looks at the alternatives‚ and deliberately chooses the course he knows to be evil. From this time on he seems unable to turn back to the good side. In the beginning‚ he starts out at the height of his success and honor‚ but then follows a long dark path to despair. Macbeth did not make these choices on his own though

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    Throughout William Shakespeare’s MacbethMacbeth acquires a growing desire for power. Although this desire is but a simple part of human nature‚ Macbeth is led on by the three witches. These three witches play a key role throughout the story‚ foreseeing the future and giving both Macbeth and Banquo their prophecies. By doing so‚ the three witches corrupt Macbeth‚ giving him an unquenchable thirst for power that only grows as the story progresses. In Act 1‚ Macbeth starts out as a loyal and true man

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    The tragedy Macbeth written by Shakespeare shows a man fall from the greatest pedestal‚ kingship. It is one of the greatest tragedies because it demonstrates how a once loyal and courageous man can diminish into an immoral ’butcher’. Macbeth receives a prophecy from three witches’ stating that he would become King. This prophecy enkindled Macbeth’s ’vaulting ambition’ and after the prompting of Lady MacbethMacbeth commits regicide. Killing the King is the beginning of Macbeth’s tragic fall. After

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    Macbeth: The Witches’ Responsibility for Macbeth’s Actions The three witches that are introduced at the beginning of the play are responsible for the introduction of the ideas that caused Duncan’s death and Macbeth’s destruction but not for Macbeth’s actions themselves. They recount to Macbeth three prophecies; that Macbeth will be: 1) Thane of Cawdor‚ 2) Thane of Glamis‚ and 3) King. Macbeth welcomes the ideas spawned from the witches’ prophecies‚ which is what triggered the spiral of events

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    supernatural powers were believed to be true. Shakespeare expresses this during the play Macbeth. The witches are shown to have supernatural powers in multiple acts throughout the play‚ each time influencing characters. The witches influence most of the actions in Macbeth. Although Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to kill King Duncan‚ Macbeth had the idea planted in his head by the witches. When Macbeth first meets the witches‚ they tell him that he will be king. He responds by giving a soliloquy. " If good

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    are three witches introduced in the beginning of Macbeth. They are there to foretell to Macbeth three prophecies. The prophecies are Macbeth will be Thane of Cawdor‚ Thane of Glams and King. These prophecies help to boost up Macbeth’s head. The eventually to causes Macbeth to kill king Duncan. The prophecies bring the idea of fate into the play. The witches had the ability to foreshadow the future. Although they could only tell the future they couldn’t control it. This causes Macbeth to create

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    Macbeth was written and perfected by a man named William Shakespeare. Throughout this play‚ you start to see a trend of how Macbeth is being a great noble man‚ to at the end‚ a man that has no sympathy for anyone else but himself. There are three witches that appear before Macbeth telling him he will become the King of Scotland. Since Macbeth knows this‚ his thoughts and actions lead him down a path of devastation and despair. Macbeth is ultimately the maker of his own demise‚ due to his desperation

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    To what extent is Macbeth responsible for his own downfall? In Shakespeare’s tragedy‚ Macbeth‚ he depicts the rise and downfall of the eponymous protagonist‚ Macbeth. The text illustrates that there is no sole person to blame for Macbeth’s downfall but numerous reasons for Macbeth’s downfall. Macbeth is only partially responsible for his own downfall for his eventual downfall at the hands of Macduff. Macbeth is driven by the prophecies given by the witches and this is perpetuated with the manipulation

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    Interpretation. The differences between Wright’s Macbeth and Goold’s Macbeth are so abundant that at times it is hard to believe that they are interpretations of the same play. Wright’s Macbeth‚ dubbed “Gangster Macbeth” by many‚ takes place in Melbourne‚ Australia. Goold’s Macbeth takes place during the World War II era in Soviet Russia. The female characters in Macbeth are interpreted very differently in Wright’s Macbeth verses Goold’s Macbeth. Their likenesses and differences impact how a viewer

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