Macbeth is a story wherein supernatural forces play a very real role. It is the witches' prophecy which leads Macbeth, who has apparently until then been an exemplary citizen and soldier, on a bloody rampage which begins with the king himself.
However, it must be noted that Lady Macbeth plays a key part in the whole bloody business. Upon receiving a letter which details the witches' account, she immediately decides that she must help Macbeth in any way she can, and invokes evil spirits to aid her in this. If we take her at face value she calls upon outside forces to literally possess her, turning her into a monster every bit as strange as the Weird Sisters. Then later, when Macbeth would have backed down from his murders, she is there in her new-found cruelty to spur him on. She seems to play as large a part in Macbeth's rise and fall as the witches who originally gave him the idea.
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