Macbeth
...if he where a man. Which made macbeth mad enough to kill Duncan. Lady macbeth also tried to tell him that a little water would remove his sin. This phrase had no effect on macbeth and left him with deep emotional scars. The second thing that led to macbeths down fall is the witches prophecy. The witches told macbeth that no man born of women could kill him. When they said this macbeth became overly confident and he stopped being cautious in affairs of war. These prophecies also told him that the forest would have move into battle before he could be killed this made him even more confident of his own immortality. The third and most important factor that caused macbeth down fall is macbeths pride. Macbeth’s pride is what caused him to kill Duncan. I believe that he would not kill Duncan if it where not for his wife telling him that he was not a real man ...