The Innocent Witches MacBeth, the tragic hero, has always won the sympathy of his audiences despite all his evil deeds. The audience most of the time believes that MacBeth had an inner good, and that if it hadn't been for the witches' prediction, MacBeth would not have died. Evidently, MacBeth had used the witches' predictions as a scapegoat. The prophecies have been accused as a major cause for MacBeth’s downfall. Yet if we look …showed first 75 words of 753 total…

…showed last 75 words of 753 total…naturally and never attempted to fulfill the prophecy. This exemplified that if MacBeth did not fulfill the predictions, they would not come true. MacBeth’s lust for power, ambition, and crack of conscience (as Priestly said) had caused his own downfall. MacBeth chose to listen to the predictions and suffered the consequent. He used the predictions as his scapegoat, and as a guideline that would serve as a psychological justification for his course of actions.