Macbeth

Lady Macbeth was only partially responsible for Macbeth’s downfall in that she pressured him into killing Duncan which triggered Macbeth’s irreversible decline. However Macbeth himself and his relentless ambition would’ve been a strong factor in the series of events that lead to his death. On another level though, because of the witches meddlings Macbeth and Lady Macbeth were merely spectators to their own lives as fate (determined by the witches) carried out it’s predetermined and unchangable path.
When Macbeth decided not to go ahead with the murder of Duncan, saying, ‘We shall proceed no further in this business’, it was Lady Macbeth who persuaded him through goading him and questioning his manliness, ‘when you durst do it, then you were a man,’ to continue with it. She mockingly asked if it was just the drink talking when he suggested it, ‘Was the hope drunk wherein you dress’d yourself? Hath it slept since?’ She wonders aloud how he can hold his he...