Macbeth Essay

Responsibility, Confidence, and Courage
In everyday society, there are movie stars, celebrities, athletes and powerful figureheads that are looked up to. In every generation people experience downfalls due to individual choices, personal conflict, and family problems, . These people develop a tragic flaw that usually leads to their ruin. In William Shakespeare's, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Macbeth, the main character develops a tragic flaw, and ends up experiencing a downfall. In this play, there are people who can be blamed for his eventual demise, but in the long run, people are truly responsible for their own choices and actions. Macbeth is responsible for his own downfall. Macbeth is responsible because he abandoned his morals, he was easily persuaded, and he became too hungry for power.
Macbeth abandons his morals because Lady Macbeth gives him a false sense of power. In the beginning of the play, the reader sees Macbeth as a brave, loyal soldier, and is just about to be named Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth was a big part of the war that Scotland was fighting against Norway. After the war was over, Macbeth met three witches named the Weird Women. They gave Macbeth a prophecy that stated the Macbeth would become Thane of Cawdor, then eventually the king. In the beginning of the play, the witches state, “All hail Macbeth, Hail to thee Thane of Glamis. / All hail Macbeth, Hail to thee Thane of Cawdor. / All hail Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter” (1.3.1-3). After this encounter, Macbeth wrote a letter to Lady Macbeth, and talked about his encounter with the witches and what he thought about it. After Lady Macbeth read this letter, she said, “Yet I do fear by nature; / It is too ful o’ th’ milk of human kin...

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...acbeth, but she had her own reasoning behind her plan that would lead to their fortune. This crazy plan she had wasn’t bound to work from the beginning, and Macbeth knew that. When he agreed to do this deed, he completely left his morals, and became a person who thrived off of power. In the beginning of this plan, all Macbeth wanted was to make his wife as happy as he could, and this led him to be weak, and easily persuaded. After Macbeth realized that this was the way for him to get power, he started to not consult Lady Macbeth with his killings, and just do whatever he thought was going to give him more power. This caused Lady Macbeth to go crazy, and eventually die, because Macbeth was growing apart from her, and she did not know how to cope with it. Overall, Macbeth was the one who led to his own demise because he became the person he never thought he would.