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Essay / Macbeth's fault or Lady Macbeth's fault - 677
People often tend to point the finger at others. In this case, the question is “who is responsible for all these murders?” » Most talk about Lady Macbeth because of her disturbing thoughts, words and actions. But Macbeth is the one who did the murder. Macbeth is ambitious when it comes to murder and is good enough to make his own decisions, so placing the blame on Lady Macbeth doesn't make sense. In Macbeth, no one is to blame and he is the real culprit. Lady Macbeth seems to be the good person who is most at fault. It is true that Lady Macbeth is the one who tells Macbeth to murder Duncan, and with her words aside: "desex me here, and fill me from head to foot with the most terrible cruelty" (Iv 391-392 ) as well as many other horrible scenes that Lady Macbeth gives. This gives the public a purpose to accuse him of all the murders. It is claimed that Lady Macbeth controls Macbeth. John Turner, co-author of two books on Shakespeare, says, "Until his sense of time dissolves and Macbeth already seems crowded," (Johnson), which shows that the image of Macbeth being king and having power is driven by Lady Macbeth's ambition. This is not entirely true. Lady Macbeth certainly has an ambition for power, but not to the point of killing everyone. She only wanted Duncan off the throne, she was unaware that other men in positions of authority, like Macduff, suspected her and her husband. She wasn't paranoid like Macbeth, which is why he killed so many people. It is reasonable to assert that Lady Macbeth was the influence; it is therefore she who is at most at fault. She also wasn't the one who killed Duncan and the other people, it was Macbeth who did it. There is only one other person to blame for bad things. At first, Macbeth doesn't seem like a person capable of killing his... middle of paper ... ow Duncan has nothing to worry about. This scene clearly shows that Macbeth is very capable of rationing the things he has done, taking your sin and justifying it to make yourself feel good is not a simple thing. When things are bad, they are just bad; there is no justification. Macbeth is at fault, not Lady Macbeth. The environment does not influence bad decisions. It's sobering but ultimately it's up to the person to make the decision, regardless of influence. Lady Macbeth has bad points but did not commit any crime physically and did not force her husband to commit the murders, she just persuaded him well, but Macbeth has the option to refuse his wife, but instead, he killed Duncan and many others. , Vernon Elso, ed. “Shakespeare’s Macbeth.” Social problems in literature: power in William. San Francisco: Greenhaven, 2009. N. pag. Print.