Essay Who Is To Blame In Macbeth

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Macbeth by William Shakespeare, I Believe that the three witches are to blame about everything that has happened in this play. Because if they had never came they would have never said the prophecies about Macbeth and Macbeth wouldn't have never been told them in the first place.

Reasons i believe this are because in act 1, scene 1, lines 1-5 ,pg.2,3 the witches are talking about when they will meet again and that is weird how they said it they said, “When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain? The second reason i believe it is all the witches fault is because in act 1, scene 3, lines 48-50, pg.14,15The witches are meeting again and are telling macbeth about the prophecies for him. Like he will be thane of cawdor and he is already thane of glamis and that he will also become king. Macbeth wouldn't have killed the king if these prophecies were not prophesied. The third reason is in act 3, scene 5, lines 30-33, pg.124-125 because hecate the leader of the witches you would say is very angry and is …show more content…
Because all the murders they had committed made Macbeth start seeing banquo’s ghost and made lady macbeth go so crazy that she committed suicide because she was having dreams about what had happened and she was acting them out about all night so she just lost it. But i don’t think it would have been lady macbeth and macbeth’s fault generally because the witches gave them these prophecies which started all of thin chaos and destruction. Even after his wife had dies Macbeth couldn't feel anything anymore. Even all the people that macbeth killed if the witches never came all of them would probably still be alive so i believe that the only one’s who are really a fault for this would be the

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