Is Lady Macbeth responsible for the tragedy within the play of Macbeth?William Shakespeare's Macbeth

Lady Macbeth of Shakespeare's bloody tragedy is
certainly a force in the pathology of evil deeds that have generated more evil
deeds.  Moreover, she is responsible for the disintegration of the marriage between
Macbeth and herself, propelling the tragedy of the
imagination.

Renowned critic, Harold Bloom, contends that
Macbeth is a visionary tragedy.  Macbeth himself is an involuntary medium, frightfully
open to all that is fair and foul.  Lady Macbeth, initially more enterprising than her
husband, falls into a psychic decline for causes that are more visionary than anything
else.  But, until Lady Macbeth becomes mad, she is an extremely strong force in
Macbeth's life.  In fact, she seems as much his mother, directing his actions, than his
wife.  For, Macbeth lacks any will in contrast to Lady Macbeth who is sheer will until
her breakdown. And, after being almost coerced into killing Duncan, Macbeth feels much
chagrin and regret:

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Had I but died an hour before this
chance. 

I had lived a blessed time; for from this
instant

There's nothing serious in mortality
(2.3.95

Yet, as Lady Macbeth
becomes insane, Macbeth, admits to his own "vaulting ambition," and pursues his design
to remain king.  He becomes, as Bloom writes, "the nothing he projects" keeping others
from taking the throne.  Somehow, though, this

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nothingness remains a negative sublime; its
grandeur merits the dignity of tragic perspectiveness.
(Bloom)

Left alone, Macbeth
fights vainly against the preternatural forces and is greatly defeated. Without the
directives of his mother-figure, Macbeth finds all his tomorrows marching toward a
vision of a dusty death, but it is a death to which he has directed himself through his
belief in the supernatural world and his paranoia and ambition.  Ultimately, Macbeth is
responsible for the tragic consequences of his ambitions.