Who Is To Blame For Lady Macbeth's Death

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Many people will agree that without Lady Macbeth, Macbeth would not be the play it was. Lady Macbeth was the one that started it all. Her persuasion and use of use of words are what made everything go forward. Her calling Macbeth such degrading names are what made him go through with everything in the first place. If she did not say anything to him nothing that happened would have happened. Without Lady Macbeth everyone that was killed would still be alive. It was her choice of actions that led to the death of many undeserving and innocent people.
The moment Lady Macbeth read the letter sent by Macbeth she stated that she would persuade Macbeth into seizing the crown. She told him to get home soon so she could speak to him to find out what …show more content…

In the beginning he promised he would go through with the plan but now he is backing out. As a way to guilt trip Macbeth into going on with the plan she says some cruel things. She states that she would “Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know/ How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me./ I would, while it was smiling in my face,/ Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums/ And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you/ Have done to this” (Mac 1.7.55-60). Lady Macbeth said this as a way to show Macbeth that he cannot go back on his promises.
If Lady Macbeth was not apart of this play nothing would have went the way it did. Her persistence and guilt tripping led her to the result that she wanted. Without those two things King Duncan would still be alive and all the events following his death would have never happened. If Lady Macbeth stayed quiet and was not power hungry her desire for power may have came to her at some point. Macbeth was already crowned as the Thane of Cowdor. Him earning that title could have led him to gaining an even better title if they have just waited for the

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