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Two characters that have flaws that are the causes of their downfall is lady Macbeth and Macbeth. wench Macbeths flaw is that she makes her husband kill king Dun erect she feels guilty after she does this, so she commits sucide. Macbeths flaw is what leads him to kill his ambtion and selfishness leads to his death.Lady Macbeths flaw is that she convinces Macbeth that he isnt a reality unless he goes through with the murder of Duncan. She threatens his manhood by give tongue to "when you durst do it, then you were a man and to be more that what you were, you would be so much more the man" (act 1, scene VII, l 49-51). afterwards Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to kill Duncan, she feels guilty and says "heres the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia get step forward not sweeten this little hand" (act 5, scene 1, l 35-36). Lady Macbeth becomes mentally ill she kills herself because she feels so guilt.Macbeths flaw is that he feels the want to rati fy his manhood, which eventually leads to his downfall. Macbeth was not secure in his manhood. So he feels the indispensableness to prove hinself to Lady Macbeth. After he proves he is a man by killing Duncan, he thinks he has alot of power to do whatever he wants. After Macbeth commits the crime, he feels that his soul can never be cleansed, no matter what he does. He said "They pluck out mine own eyes, will all great neptunes ocean clean this blood clean from my hand? No this my hand will quite an the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red" (act II, scene III, l 58-62). This shows that he really doesnt want to kill Duncan, but he does it in order to prove himself to Lady Macbeth, and to become the king. By the end he has ne fear, and has not only killed Duncan but also many another(prenominal) people such as Siward, Banquo and Macduffs family. Macbeth proves that he can be a man by killing, but in the end he can not believe that he went through with all that. All that he did eventually leads to the death of his love, Lady Macbeth, which is the original reason he feels the need to prove himself.