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Lady Macbeth is responsible for her own downfall due to her involvement with supernatural forces, her ambition and her guilty conscience.
Lady Macbeth claims that she can "look like the innocent flower/But be the serpent under 't" (1,5,64-65). She imagines that she has the capability to be remorseless and determined enough to do anything. Yet, she calls upon supernatural forces to use to her advantage. She does not ask for the help of the ‘dark side' but demands it as though she could undermine the power of unearthly evil forces. She demands: "Come, you spirits/that tend on mortal thoughts! Unsex me here…stop up the access and passage to remorse…you murdering ministers…come, thick night, / And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell…nor the heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, / To cry, ‘Hold, hold!'"(1,5,39-53). She's asking the supernatural forces to make her insensitive so that she feels no remorse and not hesitate in her plans to kill Duncan. Lady Macbeth is......

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