Essay | Lady Macbeth - Her Tragic Downfall

As we all know, bad guys get serious punishments for what they have done. But what about the people that motivated him/her to doing that bad deed? Do they get punished the same way as well, even if they didn't actually commit the crime? Well, sometimes in literature they do. In William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Lady Macbeth helps Macbeth commit the killing of Duncan. Though she didn't actually kill him, Lady Macbeth had a major role of this crime, thus she can be considered a tragic heroine. Though normally people see the tragic hero as the main character of Shakespearean tragedies, one doesn't always realize that the accomplices too have their downfalls as well. In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth's downfall from overly ambitious to the exact opposite due to the fact that she helped kill Duncan.

The great ambitions of Lady Macbeth starts out when she first hears about Macbeth's prophecies from...
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