Who Was Responsible For Macbeth's Death

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I do not believe that Macbeth would have killed the king if his wife was not there. She pushed him to do it because if he did not do it, then she was going to do it herself. Macbeth did not want to kill the king because he wanted fate to take its own course. He wanted the king to die of natural things or for someone else to kill him. If he would not have done it his own he would have had to wait for the king to die anyways from other causes. This way he became king faster but was not happy with the way it happened. Lady Macbeth was kind of pushy when it came to the king dying. Macbeth messed some of what happened up and she was furious with him and she told him she would do everything on her own he if would not man up and do it himself. I do

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