Macbeth Essay
April 13, 2015 Drew Veenstra
The Tragedy of Macbeth: Who Is To Blame?
The play
Macbeth
is about a renown Scottish general named Macbeth who is given a prophecy from a group of witches that one day he will become a Thane, and later King of Scotland. Driven by this newly found ambition, Macbeth murders King Duncan and his dear friend Banquo, and consequently as a result of Duncan’s death he kills
Duncan’s servants as well. He then takes the throne for himself. His prophecy comes true but consequently, killing Duncan comes with its own price and ultimately Macbeth dies as a result of these consequences. Macbeth was a weak individual; Lady Macbeth and The Witches were able to manipulate him easily and lead him down the path of darkness and evil. But looking at the evidence in the text, we learn that he actually takes things into his own hands,and that he ultimately makes his own decisions and that he is aware of his actions and knows that they are wrong but continues to act upon them anyway. So we know Lady Macbeth and the witches certainly helped guide Macbeth down the path of destruction but they are not entirely to blame for it, for Macbeth has free will. Macbeth’s decisions lead to the devastation in this play. The witches start the initial events in the play by giving him the prophecies, although as thе play dеvеlops thе witchеs’ influence on Macbeth goes away, meaning the witches are not entirely to blame for the devastation in the play. Macbeth first meets the witches in scene three. The three witches say “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!
All Hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter,” The witches have just given Macbeth a look at what could be, The witches were having fun toying with his ambition and making him even more ambitious. In the time of
The Tragedy of Macbeth: Who Is To Blame?
The play
Macbeth
is about a renown Scottish general named Macbeth who is given a prophecy from a group of witches that one day he will become a Thane, and later King of Scotland. Driven by this newly found ambition, Macbeth murders King Duncan and his dear friend Banquo, and consequently as a result of Duncan’s death he kills
Duncan’s servants as well. He then takes the throne for himself. His prophecy comes true but consequently, killing Duncan comes with its own price and ultimately Macbeth dies as a result of these consequences. Macbeth was a weak individual; Lady Macbeth and The Witches were able to manipulate him easily and lead him down the path of darkness and evil. But looking at the evidence in the text, we learn that he actually takes things into his own hands,and that he ultimately makes his own decisions and that he is aware of his actions and knows that they are wrong but continues to act upon them anyway. So we know Lady Macbeth and the witches certainly helped guide Macbeth down the path of destruction but they are not entirely to blame for it, for Macbeth has free will. Macbeth’s decisions lead to the devastation in this play. The witches start the initial events in the play by giving him the prophecies, although as thе play dеvеlops thе witchеs’ influence on Macbeth goes away, meaning the witches are not entirely to blame for the devastation in the play. Macbeth first meets the witches in scene three. The three witches say “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!
All Hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter,” The witches have just given Macbeth a look at what could be, The witches were having fun toying with his ambition and making him even more ambitious. In the time of