Can anyone who studied Macbeth please correct my essay and give me feedback and areas of improvement. Thanks. The prompt is about who is to blame for Macbeth's downfall.
William Shakespeare’s, Macbeth, is a tragic play set in Scotland’s medieval era in the 11th century. Although the witches ignited Macbeth’s marathon of fierce butchery, the female protagonist of the play, Lady Macbeth, with her savage disregard for humanity her lust and greed for power, is ultimately to blame for Macbeth’s downfall and self-annihilation.
Lady Macbeth’s uses shrewd manipulation, which as a result, led to Macbeth’s downfall. Without Lady Macbeth’s persuasion, Macbeth would have been too cowardly to follow through with King Duncan’s murder, an act that led Macbeth to plunge on his downward spiral to self-destruction. When Lady Macbeth received the letter from Macbeth, explaining the encounter with the witches and their prophecies, she was already preparing for her persuasion on her husband. She stated that she wanted to “pour [her] spirits in thine ear,” referring to how she wanted to influence and encourage Macbeth to commit regicide. Lady Macbeth also states that she would “chastise [Macbeth] with the valour of [her] tongue”. She was willing to scold Macbeth with punishing words just to obtain the “golden round”. When Macbeth was fearful of the impending assassination she tells him to “beguile the time look like the time”. Lady Macbeth was stating that is Macbeth wants to deceive the world; he must appear innocent so that they do not suspect him of the assassination. She enforces the fact that he should hide his feelings and be “the serpent under’t”. Lady Macbeth also uses cruel and piercing emasculation as a tactic to manipulate Macbeth further into committing the crime. When Macbeth is tentative about killing the king she states that “when [he] durst do it, then [he] were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man”. Lady Macbeth argues that Macbeth was a man when he thought of killing Duncan. Lady Macbeth feels that if Macbeth wants to be even more of a man, he must be brave enough to actually kill the King. Ultimately, Lady Macbeth’s scheming manipulation is what essentially led to Macbeth’s downfall.
Lady Macbeth’s ambition and lust for power is what lead to Macbeth’s self-annihilation and downfall. In Macbeth’s rise to power, he did not personally have the ambition to take the throne or plot to take action. He clearly stated that he had no “intent”, or no “spur” to kill the King. When Macbeth heard the prophecies of the witches, he did not have the aspiration to acquire the crown, he simply labeled the prophecies of having “strange intelligence”. However once Lady Macbeth heard that her husband had been prophesied to being “King Hereafter”, her lust, greed and selfishness drove her husband to act immediately to obtain the title “King” of Scotland. Lady Macbeth stated that she would “pluck [her] nipple from his boneless and dash the brains out, had [she] sworn as you have done to this.” She swore that she would kill her own baby rather than not carry out the murder of the King. When Lady Macbeth received the letter she immediately calls out to the spirits to “unsex” her. She wanted to take her womanhood so that she could loose the tenderness generally associated with women back then. Lady Macbeth would even “take [her] milk for gall”, “stop the access and passage to remorse” and let the spirits “tend to mortal thoughts” so that she could be fierce and unrelenting. She then devised the entire plan to commit regicide against Duncan, which shows how much her ambition for the throne drove her to manipulate her husband to commit such a savage act. King Duncan’s murder was what created Macbeth into become a murderous tyrant, and in turn led to his downfall. All this propagates the fact that Lady Macbeth’s ambition and power hungry demeanor is what leads to Macbeth’s demise.
Lady Macbeth is responsible for her husband’s rise to power and murderous rampage. Her shrewd influence and lust for power is what leads to his tragic downfall. Lady Macbeth’s manipulation and yearning ambition are indicators of how she is ultimately to blame for Macbeth’s breakdown.
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