To develop a thesis statement, first you have to
            understand what brought about Macbeth's downfall.  In Act 1, sc. 7, Macbeth says, in his
            soliloquy, "I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Vaulting
            ambition, which o'erleaps itself / And falls on the other-."  He says that he has no
            reason to kill Duncan other than his own ambition which can make a person careless.  In
            Act 3, sc. 5, Hecate, after berating the witches for not doing more to Macbeth, tells
            them that they can make Macbeth feel overconfident (ll. 30-33) when she concludes with,
            "And you all know security / Is mortals' chiefest enemy."  She knows that if Macbeth
            feels like he cannot be defeated, he will have his guard down and that's when it is
            easiest to defeat him.  Macbeth lets his ambition control him enough to get him to kill
            Duncan.  After seeing the apparitions in Act 4, he feels like he cannot be defeated by
            any man born of a woman or until the woods around the castle advance to the castle -
            both seeming impossibilities.  He didn't bother to try to figure out if the witches were
            tricking him with their prophecies because the prophecies made him feel secure.  It is
            up to you to decide which of these weaknesses brought about Macbeth's
            fall.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
I need a thesis statement as to why Macbeth had caused his own downfall in Macbeth.
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