Examples Of Who Was Responsible For Macbeth's Death

Macbeth is most definitely responsible for all but one death. The only death that he is not held accountable for, is Lady Macbeth’s, his wife. In William Shakespeare’s play, The tragedy of Macbeth, Macbeth is fully responsible for what happened to himself. The witches are not in charge of what Macbeth decides to do. He has his own mind and way of doing things. The witches did predict what was going to happen, but Macbeth was the only one who could make it happen. And which he did. First off, the witches have no say in how Macbeth should react to their prophecies, meaning that they cannot be in charge of what happens or how Macbeth deals with it. They have no control over what Macbeth says or does, he is his own person and does as he pleases. Once he finds out that he is now Thane of Cawdor (the witches first prophecy), he believes that the other prophecies the witches said, must happen, one way or another. The witches might have predicted what was going to happen because they are more than ordinary humans as Lady Macbeth calls them in Act I, scene 5, but Macbeth made their predictions happen.

If he would not have listened to Lady Macbeth and her way of doing things, he would not have been in the predicament of being killed in the first place. In Act I, scene 7, Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth that he should not kill the king because “He’s here in double trust:/ First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, /Strong both against the deed, then as his host, . . .. “(1.12-14). Macbeth also tells her that he should not kill Duncan because has been a good king. Finally, she convinced Macbeth that he should kill Duncan because if he did not do it, then he does not really love her and he is too much of a coward. He immediately regrets killing Duncan, but that does not stop him from killing the guards. This is only the beginning to his murdering