ll./ Till Birnam Wood remove to Dunsinane/ I cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm?/ Was he not born of woman? The spirits that know/ All mortal consequences have pronounced me thus:/ 'Fear not, Macbeth. No man that's born of woman/ Shall e'er have power upon thee'… (5.3.1-7). Macbeth would develop a false sense of security, which lead him to believe that he was invulnerable. He would act as if his throne could not be threatened and that he had nothing to worry about, when however he was under great danger of being backstabbed by his once loyal friends. Furthermore, Macbeth creates a false sense of mind and forces himself to believe that the words of the Three Witches are true. Macbeth's incorrect conclusions formed from the apparitions and his own interpretation of the prophecy, lead to his ruin.Macbeth's greatest cause of his destruction was the one he held dearest to him, Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth questions Macbeth's manhood in an attempt to manipulate him into doing things that she wants. For instance, when Macbeth is questioning whether or not he should murder Duncan, Lady Macbeth fools Macbeth into thinking about how any real man would commit the murder: What beast was 't/ then,/ that made you break this enterprise to me?/ When you durst do it, then you were a man;/ And to be more than what you were, you would/ Be so much more the man (1.7.53-58). This occurs in the play numerous times and it is a very affective motivator for his transformation. Lady Macbeth is very ruthless when it comes to accomplishing what she desires and that is obvious because of how she deceives Macbeth. Secondly, Lady Macbeth exploits Macbeth's ambition and ego. She asks if Macbeth really desires what he spoke about earlier. In addition, Macbeth's weak mind is exposed and that results in him performing the many murders. If it were not for Lady Macbeth's mercilessness, then Macbeth might have become a valorous and magnifi...
