The character that is most responsible for “The Tragedy of Macbeth” by William Shakespeare is Macbeth. It is Macbeth because he is ambitious and he wants to gain more power fast. He is not willing to wait and he has a lot of fate in the witches. Macbeth was obsessed with power. Macbeth is the one that created his own tragedy for himself, he caused his downfall in the play. Macbeth was the one that did all the killing in the play and he ruined himself. It all started when the witches told Banquo and Macbeth their prophecy. Banquo did not believe the witches as much as Macbeth did. When the witches told Macbeth his prophecy, he was confused but when Ross and Angus announced that Macbeth was The Thane of Cawdor he trusted the witches
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. . ¨ (I.4.36-38). He realized there was a flaw in his plan and he did not know if he should continue “The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o´leap¨ (I.4.48-49). Macbeth could have step away from his thoughts or continue to think about murdering the King. Macbeth decides to kill the king “I have done the deed. . .” (II.2.14). Malcolm runs away to England which makes people think he killed his father. Macbeth kills Duncan's guards because he doesn’t want to give them a chance to prove their innocent “Oh, yet I do repent me of my fury, That I did kill them” (II.3.84-85). Macbeth will kill anyone that got in his way to being king. Macbeth wanted everything to happen fast and he to wanted more power quickly. Macbeth killed his best friend and he killed all of the Macduff family because he felt threatened by them. Macbeth was the one that killed or sent someone to go kill people because he wanted that …show more content…
Macbeth met with the witches again because he wanted to know about his future as king. The witches showed Macbeth three apparitions, the first one told him “Beware Macduff” (IV.1.73) then the second apparitions told him “Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn, The power of man, for none of woman born, Shall harm Macbeth” (IV.1.81-83) and the last apparitions “Macbeth shall never vanquished be until, Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill, Shall come against him” (IV.1.96-98). These apparitions the witches showed Macbeth made him more confident in himself and he thought he would be invincible from anyone. When the second apparition told Macbeth to laugh at the thought of power from other men because no one born from a woman can hurt him. When the war was about to happen, Macbeth was overly confident in himself because he trusted the prophecy from the witches. The people from the kingdom didn’t believe Macbeth was sane “Some say he’s mad, others that lesser hate him, do call it valiant fury. But, for certain, He cannot buckle his distempered cause, within the belt of rule” (V.2.13-16). The people wanted Macbeth to not be king anymore and wanted Malcolm to be the rightful king. “Or so much as it needs, to dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds, make we our march towards Birnam”(V.2.29-31). The people that were in Macbeth army was not actually trying
. . ¨ (I.4.36-38). He realized there was a flaw in his plan and he did not know if he should continue “The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o´leap¨ (I.4.48-49). Macbeth could have step away from his thoughts or continue to think about murdering the King. Macbeth decides to kill the king “I have done the deed. . .” (II.2.14). Malcolm runs away to England which makes people think he killed his father. Macbeth kills Duncan's guards because he doesn’t want to give them a chance to prove their innocent “Oh, yet I do repent me of my fury, That I did kill them” (II.3.84-85). Macbeth will kill anyone that got in his way to being king. Macbeth wanted everything to happen fast and he to wanted more power quickly. Macbeth killed his best friend and he killed all of the Macduff family because he felt threatened by them. Macbeth was the one that killed or sent someone to go kill people because he wanted that …show more content…
Macbeth met with the witches again because he wanted to know about his future as king. The witches showed Macbeth three apparitions, the first one told him “Beware Macduff” (IV.1.73) then the second apparitions told him “Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn, The power of man, for none of woman born, Shall harm Macbeth” (IV.1.81-83) and the last apparitions “Macbeth shall never vanquished be until, Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill, Shall come against him” (IV.1.96-98). These apparitions the witches showed Macbeth made him more confident in himself and he thought he would be invincible from anyone. When the second apparition told Macbeth to laugh at the thought of power from other men because no one born from a woman can hurt him. When the war was about to happen, Macbeth was overly confident in himself because he trusted the prophecy from the witches. The people from the kingdom didn’t believe Macbeth was sane “Some say he’s mad, others that lesser hate him, do call it valiant fury. But, for certain, He cannot buckle his distempered cause, within the belt of rule” (V.2.13-16). The people wanted Macbeth to not be king anymore and wanted Malcolm to be the rightful king. “Or so much as it needs, to dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds, make we our march towards Birnam”(V.2.29-31). The people that were in Macbeth army was not actually trying