Is Macbeth a victim or a villain in the play Macbeth?why do you think he is either a victim or a villian and include quotes to back up your answer....

I agree with the above responses.  There is an old saying
in parachuting.  It is,  "you pack your own chute".  If the chute fails to open, you
have nobody to blame except yourself.  Why would anybody leave this life giving action
to somebody else?

If we think of our lives as the
parachute, it is the same thing.  People can whinge and whine about their lives but we
are all ultimately responsible for our actions.  It is all too easy to blame others for
bad life choices, but since we have free will, our actions define
us.

Macbeth has choices.  That he makes bad ones are on his
head.  He can't blame his wife.  Sure, she pushed him and used sex to get what she
thinks she wants but he knows where it will all lead.  He can't blame the weird sister. 
They merely made some predictions.  They didn't say that Macbeth had to kill Duncan to
become king.  He makes that choice.  These factors play a part in his decision, but it
is Macbeth that wields the knife that kills Duncan.

It
seems once he has committed murder, he is compelled to continue killing.  He even tells
his wife that he has done something she will be proud of him for doing.  (The murder of
Banquo.)

The terms victim and villain are too limited for
such a complex character as Shakespeare's Macbeth.  He packed his own
chute.