There are many different possible viewpoints to take in answering this question, as it is possible to argue many different cases and give good reason for them all so it is my opinion that there are many different people who are responsible for the tragedy in Macbeth.

The first person that comes to mind when thinking this over is Macbeth himself as he is the person who commits all the murders in the play and therefore would obviously be considered the first person to point the finger at. If he were a good person then why would he do this? This is definitely a strong argument and I do agree that Macbeth has a dark side to him that drives him to commit these deeds. He describes it as his “vaulting ambition” and he knows that it’s there and it’s causing him to do these things.

A lot of people would say that he is partly good because he knows what he is doing is wrong but I think this makes him even worse. He knows what he is doing is wrong but he does it all the same, this is a very bad thing. The thing that makes me feel that Macbeth is a partly good man and could never do this without outside interference is the guilt he feels after he has done these terrible thi

After Duncan’s murder in act 2 scene 2 Macbeth says “This is a sorry sight” whilst looking at his hands in reference to the blood on them and Lady Macbeth remarks that they can simply be washed but he knows he can’t wash away his sins. I think that when Lady Macbeth is attempting to wash the stains off her hands whilst sleepwalking she is, by this point, accepting the same thing as Macbeth was back then. By this point Macbeth is feeling a lot less remorse and has continued his deeds without the aid of his wife. Some people would say that Lady Macbeth is more sinister than Macbeth but I would argue that they both felt guilty and remorseless at different points in the play to each other and so I would say that they are similar in moral judgement.

Macbeth is definitely a businessman. He treats these murders like a job that has to be done and this makes him look bad. When he is told he has been named Thane of Cawdor he says to himself, “Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor. The greatest is behind.” He is immediately thinking of the witches’ prediction and what success may be in the future for him.

The three witches are playing with Macbeth, teasing and taunting him. They want to test him and see him suffer. It’s all a game to them and they are merely trying to cause mischief and pain it is what they live off. In the witches’ spells and chants they talk of their love for evil and mischief. They say, “Double, double toil and trouble” They also say “fair is foul and foul is fair”. I think this means that things are not as they appear in this play, they are unnatural and flipped upside down and also that fair and foul are both the same to them because they have no morals. As well as being responsible for Macbeth’s rise they are also responsible for his demise.

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