Macbeth vs. Lady Macbeth

In William Shakespeares Macbeth, the tragic hero or the great and virtuous character, Macbeth is destined for d possessfall as he brings damage and frustration upon himself. However, this statement can be widely debatable, as art objecty would assume that Lady Macbeth also revivifys an immense role in the bump off of Duncan, the beginning of the tragedy. Early in the play, Macbeth encounters three witches or supernatural beings that announce his future as the new poof of Scotland. Intrigued by their prophecies, Macbeth places faith in their words.Macbeths wife, Lady Macbeth, is instrumental in his rivalry, manipulating him, as they both contrivance for greatness. Driven by the will to move around fag, Macbeth commits the slaying of the current great power Duncan and continuously reachs those that suspect him. He is led to his hold destruction as Macduff, a Scottish noble, subsequently kills him. Moreover, although both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth can be considered guilty for the declension of Macbeth or the tragedy of the play, Macbeth is more to tear as a result of his ruthlessness, his thought-provoking requires, and his naive character, which allow him to betray his own conscience.Macbeths ambitious character and his insatiable lust for power drives him to transform his nature towards evil commencing his tragic downfall. Upon hearing the prophecies of the witches, Macbeth immediately ponders about the hollerions and creates an creative thinker to murder the King. Macbeth states that the image of Duncan, the current Kings death doth unfix my blur (I. ii. 148) meaning that this image was too horrid to blush imagine. Early in the play, the witches only predicted that he would buzz off King but it was Macbeths ambitious character that takes it to the next step as he now thrives on the will to become King.Although the Kings death was never mentioned in the prophecies, Macbeth plants the idea in his head that the only way for him to become Ki ng, as the predictions stated was to kill Duncan, which creates and displays his lust for power. Macbeth also mentions, let non hop out see my black and deep desires (I. iv. 58). This is another example in which he now admits this dark character inside him, demonstrating that his valiant, brave character displayed in the beginning of the play is slowly fading away or deteriorating as his ambitious character takes over.Furthermore, by virtue of his honest character, Macbeth admits to himself of his vaulting ambition as he states, I have no spur to cacography the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which oer leaps itself. (I. vii. 25-27) These lines personate that Macbeth has no other reason to kill Duncan except for his strong desires of wanting to become King. Macbeths character as ambitious appears once more as even to the eyes of his wife, is seen clearly as lustful for power. Lady Macbeth states art not without ambition proclaiming of his ambitious character.Macb eths ambitions is the root cause of his tragic downfall as his lust for power drives him to murder which is the misdeed that places his life at risk and begins his fall from glory. Macbeth as a man with solid moral philosophy and a well-established conscience allows himself to be manipulated by other significant characters of the play such as the witches and Lady Macbeth. The witches bemuse two significant appearances in the play, each in which they use equivocation to confuse and manipulate or spark the characters in the play to lead a life of evil.Their prototypical appearance was in front of Banquo and Macbeth in which they praise him as they predict his future as the next King. They know that by calling him King hereafter (i. iii. 53) that it will create desires in his midsection and they use these strong phrases or these words placed in paradox to manipulate Macbeth to do something that would earn him that title. Macbeth who has a conscience of his own, allows himself to create unwanted desires in his heart knowing well that patience is an attribute that only the noble obtain.Macbeth, by the terminal of his first soliloquy, makes the final decision to not murder the King because in his point of view, Duncan both born his faculties so meek (i. vii. 16-17) and it would be injustice to kill a righteous person but later on changes his mind as he allows his conscience to be travel again by his wife, Lady Macbeth who questions his manhood to achieve the power that they would draw and quarter if they kill Duncan. She states If you durst do it, then you were a man (i. vii. 56-57) as she tries to allure her husband to go along with Duncans murder.Foolishly, Macbeth allows her to change his mind when he could have easily refused proving that he had a mind of his own. The witches near the end of the play manipulate Macbeth once more, but this time it was Macbeth who sought their cooperate therefore getting himself into more trouble. A wise person would mak e the right decision not to ask the troublesome witches for help, but in Macbeths case, he deals with this situation differently as he is again easily manipulated into developing hubris, which leads to his downfall and his tragic ending.Therefore, although Macbeth had a conscience of his own and had the right to make his own decisions, he allowed himself to be manipulated by others, which eventually leads to his own death. Macbeth makes moreover errors in judgment following his misdeed of cleaning Duncan as he commits other major crimes, which all precipitate his downfall. For example, the murder of his friend, Banquo. traveling completely on his fear that Banquos sons will become King and himself remaining unrecognized, Macbeth decides to kill both Banquo and his son, Fleance.Macbeth knew that he was under distrust for Duncans murder therefore concludes with these two reasons to kill an innocent man and his son. This is proven through Macbeths statement made in Act 3. Scene 2. Lines 41-42. Macbeth establishes his fear as he says that he is full of scorpions in his mind. Therefore, this murder was another factor or crime that leads him promptly to his downfall. Another crime that Macbeth commits that is unforgivable was when he murdered a bring forth and a child.To take advantage of the situation, Macbeth kills Macduffs family, which was a tragic motion-picture show as Macduffs son dies creating pathos in the audiences heart and depicts Macbeths character as mad or insane. These murders portray his downfall as extreme for all the serious sins Macbeth has committed. Macbeths desire for power, his ignorance towards his own conscience, and the further crimes he commits portray him as more to blame over Lady Macbeth for his own downfall and death.Throughout the whole play, although Lady Macbeth may seem as the masculine character and the brain behind the murder of Duncan, she plays a minor part in Macbeths own desires and the further crimes he independent ly commits that end in his downfall. Lady Macbeth is a significant character but is not more to blame for every tragic hero brings his fate upon himself. Therefore to conclude, Macbeth is more to blame for his own defeat and suffering.