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Originally Posted by itch vaccine
4. Macbeth referred to as "dead butcher" in the end. Was it his own doing or outside forces?
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Macbeth's place as a dead butcher is almost entirely upon his shoulders. While he was manipulated by Lady Macbeth and the weird sisters' prophesies, it was still his own ambition to become King and his own choice to follow through with his actions. It was he who chose to kill the King, and the vilification of Lady Macbeth is for her talking him back into a decision which he had already essentially made.
Macbeth truely decends into butchery however after he has assumed the throne. Again he chooses to interpret the idea that Banquo's sons would rule as Kings as a threat to him, when it didn't necessarily threaten his immediate life. And also, Lady Macbeth's role in his schemes is reduced almost to zero, and Macbeth himself takes on the role of butcher in vain attempts to solidify his throne. Yes, there were multiple outside factors acting on him, but he still chose how to interpret those factors and his own decisions stemming from them.
/just read Macbeth for my Shakespeare class so trying to act like i have an opinion on it...