The Fall of Macbeth in William Shakespeare's Play
In the play Macbeth, the audience may notice that there are three main
contributors to the fall of, Great Macbeth, to the dead butcherer.
These three are, the three witches, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth.
Although they all have their vital roles to play, it is Macbeth who
the audience would more easily see is the main contributor.
Although Macbeth is the main contributor the witches and Lady Macbeth
both play a significant part in this play. To start with the audience
can see that the witches are very important as they are the first
people on stage during this play. Straight away the audience can
immediately clearly see that the witches are evil through each
language as “Where shall we three meet again/In thunder, lightning, or
in rain?” and “Fair is foul and foul is fair;/Hover through the fog
and filthy air.” These two quotations give a picture of the witches
and that is that they are evil. Pathetic fallacy is used in the stage
directions, they say “Thunder and lightning. Enter three witches/”
This sets the scene as quit dark and for the witches to start as their
devious plan to trick Macbeth. As the audience sees so far the
witches are obviously not the kind of people you may find your average
lord or lady associating with, this makes you suspicious of them, and
of Macbeth. The answer to this questions is no, as in a later scene
where as Macbeth is drawn in and intrigued by the witches, his friend
Banquo revisits their temptations and ignores their suggestions. In
scene I the audience evidence of their evil ways as it is clear that
they are plotting or even casting a spell on...
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immediately does so. “He has killed me mother” says Macduff’s son.
Almost all of the Shakespeare tragedies end with somebody dying,
usually the main character. This is normally due to a tragic flaw
they have developed through the play. E.g. Athello has a very active
mind, is very jealous of his wife as she thinks he is having an
affair, this eventually drives him to kill her ‘lover’. In Macbeth it
is his raw ambition, that is what drives him throughout the whole
play. Lady Macbeth and the witches are just catalysts which speed up
the play. It is not inevitable that Macbeth would have fallen, but it
is almost certain he would have because of his tragic flaw, his
ambition. All of the reasons that Lady Macbeth and the witches had
to do with his downfall are just things that help him on his way.