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Who Is Responsible For Macbeth's Downfall
Lady Macbeth was the main reason for the downfall of a born leader and courageous war hero. She was the instigator for Macbeth’s slow downfall from a hero to a murderer to a crazed man full of guilt for what he had done.

Macbeth should have not stayed with Lady Macbeth for three reasons.

She was power hungry and did not love him. She claimed that he is “too full of the milk of human kindness,” what she is saying is that Macbeth is afraid to get his hands dirty and is rather feminine. She is contempt that he has the ambition to gain the crown but “without the illness should attend it. She exclaims, That he would be great, that he would have a high position. Macbeth possessed all the traits that Lady Macbeth wished he didn’t have. He was a smart man who possessed a solid moral compass and did not relish in doing wrong. She claims that she is more daring than he is which is saying that she was more of a man than he was.
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She said that she would have to “pour my spirits in thine ear,” and “chastise with the valor of my tongue.” She is like the aggressive Eve to Macbeth’s passive Adam, though Adam held the primary responsibility because he was there and gave in to the temptation.; she beats him into murdering Duncan. She is both Eve and the serpent; she takes control of his plans from the beginning of the book but allows the weird sisters to enact on them. Now she has become that of Eve in the garden the temptress. She allows the prophecy of the witches to play with Macbeth’s emotions and drive him to crave the position of

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