The Mack

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Term Paper Title	The Mack
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                                        The Mack
                                        English Literature
                                        Period 2
Macbeth's Downfall
or
The Downfall of Macbeth

     One of the most hotly debated questions in English literature is: What was the primary cause of Macbeth's downfall?  In my view, the primary cause of Macbeth's downfall was his wife, Lady Macbeth.  Lady Macbeth caused Macbeth's downfall by her own ambition to be the queen of Scotland and by her constant belittling of her husband.
     The main reason for Macbeth's downfall was Lady Macbeth's ambition to be Queen of Scotland.  Lady Macbeth originally was like any normal woman, wanting to outdo the other noblewomen of Scotland.  After Macbeth related the three weird sisters' prophecies (that Macbeth would first be the Thane of Glamis, then the Thane of Cawdor, and finally the King of all Scotland) to Lady Macbeth, she started to aspire to becoming the queen of Scotland.  She was already the Lady of Glamis, and then Cawdor, but she didn't have enough patience to see the third prophecy come true on its own.  Her ambition is shown beautifully in the following quote: "'They met me in the day of success; and I have learned by the perfectest report, they have more in them than mortal knowledge.  When I burned in desire to question them further, they made themselves air, into which they vanished.  Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me 'Thane of Cawdor'; by which title, before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred me to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou mightst not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant of what greatness is promised thee.  Lay it to thy heart, and farewell.'  Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be What thou art promised.  Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way.  Thou wouldst be great; Art not with ambition, but without The illness should attend it.  What thou wouldst highly That wouldst thou holily; would not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win.  Thou'ldst have, great Glamis, That which cries, 'Thus thou must do, if thou have it'; And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone.  Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear, And chastise with the valor of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crowned withal" (Macbeth 1.5, 1-24).  The quote shows Lady Macbeth's glee in reading Macbeth's le...

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