Causes Of Macbeth's Downfall

One of Shakespeare’s many famous plays is called The Tragedy of Macbeth. It features a character named Macbeth. He was told, by three witches, of predictions of power in his future. Of course his uprising into these places of power had to come with a downfall. Macbeth’s downfall is caused by his ambition for pleasing his wife, power, and fulfilling the witches’ predictions. In Macbeth’s mind he has to please his wife. In the first scene, Lady Macbeth tells him that he has to complete the predictions. She tells him how they are going to make it happen. Lady Macbeth says, “Of our great quell” (I.iiiiiii.72). Quell meaning murder. This is after telling him that they were going to commit the murder of the King Duncan. She says that no one will figure out their murder. She ends up convincing him that they have to kill Duncan for the

In act one they said, “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” (I.iii.48-50). He was already Thane of Glamis, and when he arrived back from the war with Banquo, he is informed that he is Thane of Glamis. This leads him to think that the next prophecy will come true. His wife in scene one tells him that he can complete the next prophecy of being king. Of course he does, and later he goes back for more predictions, which make him sure of himself. Even though those new predictions come true and start his tragic fall. Ambition can be used wisely to help someone, but if not, then it can destroy someone. Ambition was the main factor of Macbeth’s fall. If there was no ambition to get to the seat of power, then how could have been a downfall. Regression to the mean is a saying. It means that no matter how good things become, or how bad, something will always happen to make it even again. Macbeth had an uprising due to his strong ambition. That came to an end when he fell from