The Destruction of Macbeth? Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespeare, and is about a man becoming a king through the wrong ways. The play starts off with Macbeth as a war hero with expectations to become king. His route for the throne was sliced off when the king’s son was put into a higher position and guaranteed the status of “king”. Macbeth did not appreciate this, so he decided to dig himself in whole so deep that he could not climb out. This sparks his three reasons for his destruction. Macbeth’s first, minor reason for his downfall was his wife, Lady Macbeth. Because no one is more persuasive than one’s wife is, Macbeth could not resist the