Who has more to do with the tragic events of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth or Macbeth?

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Who has more to do with the tragic events of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth or Macbeth?

In the story of MACBETH both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth experience the luring shadow of temptation after Macbeth’s unexpected meeting with the witches at the beginning.

Through this tragic story, Macbeth makes a journey from good to evil, but the question is was this put up on to himself or was it the evil Lady Macbeth and her persuasive talk. Lady Macbeth during the play makes huge evil inputs to cause Macbeth his fate. Her main input is the first murder, after she has read the interesting but most evil of letters from Macbeth (after his first encounter with the witches) she wants him to come home quickly so she says “ may pour my spirits in thine ear.” She knows of her husband weakness of mind at what the witches have said to Macbeth so intends to persuade him “ with the valour of my tongue.” Obviously learning from this Lady Macbeth seems to use her evil that she has gathered to push Macbeth into this evil deed. Is it all Lady Macbeth? How could just his wife push such an overruling man into evil? She must have noticed something in his behaviour that was in some way unusual. I feel that Lady Macbeth notices this about Macbeth, when he shows an evil side when Malcolm is announced heir of the throne, “ For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your frees, let not light see my black deep desires,” “ The eye wink at the hand. Yet let that be, which the eyes fears when it is done to see.”

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Both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth seem to be alike as they are both filled with evil but both believe that if they hide their deeds, heaven will not judge. But Macbeth increasingly doubts the ideas of Lady Macbeth she believes in what she is doing, so it becomes reality, “Stop up th’access and passage to remorse” asking spirits.

Lady Macbeth seems to be the first mind overtaken by evil, but by her own will and not the push of evil. Lady Macbeth starts her journey with evil at the castle before she even sees Macbeth. She wants power so ...

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