Shakespeare’s Macbeth is told as a tragedy of character and how the characters are motivated to do what they do. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth plotted about killing Duncan because they were cruel and power-hungry. The witches seemed to play a collateral role since they helped push Macbeth down a certain path, but it was still Macbeth who committed the crime due to his selfish character. The characters in Macbeth are driven by their own faults and not by fate alone. The character’s personalities influenced their actions like how Lady Macbeth was able to talk Macbeth into killing Duncan. Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth wanted a lot of power and glory and they were willing to do whatever it took to gain such power. At the end of Act I, Macbeth questions
