Macbeth’s Downfall Into The horrors of, “What Goes Around Comes Around” In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare the motivation to succeed in Macbeth’s life becomes overpowering, and pushes him into total destruction. Through out the entire play Macbeth is going down a spiral path of lunacy and physical hardship. The people in his life easily influence his decision and his wrongful actions to achieve his goal of success. Some of the influences …showed first 75 words of 810 total…

…showed last 75 words of 810 total…these influences help lead to Macbeth's eventual failure and death. His insecurities lead Macbeth to rash actions to get rid of his perceived enemies, actions that he later often regrets. Therefore, he is led to murder Banquo and Macduff's family and others all the while relying on the apparitions' prophecies that he will be safe. Only in the end does he realize he has been misled and betrayed, but by then it is too late.