Is There Such Thing As A Partial Responsibility?

Hook: “ It is easier to commit murder than to justify it” (Aemilius Papinianus). Justifying that someone is innocent or guilty of murder is difficult-- it’s hard to tell if they actually intentionally committed the crime.

   Shakespeare's "Macbeth" holds many hidden themes within its already exuberant plot.  The first of these surrounds the murder of Duncan and the role that both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth himself played.  However, the true guilt of the murder can fall on either character.  Although Macbeth physically committed the crime, it was Lady Macbeth that pushed him to his limits of rational thought and essentially made fun of him to lower his esteem.  With Macbeth's defenses down, it was an easy task for Lady Macbeth to influence Duncan's murder and make up an excuse as to why she could not do it herself.  The guilt of Duncan's murder can be placed firmly on the head on Lady Macbeth.

However, this cannot be said for all victims of guilt as the author makes sure to heed the consequences of

    Guilt, power, and vengefulness are only a few examples of what drives our actions. No person is born guilty, power-hungry, or craving revenge. The need to satisfy those feelings is developed because of what has influenced them in the past. In the tragedy Macbeth, William Shakespeare perfectly captures the very essence of what makes us human. It provides the idea that there are forces that can encourage an individual’s actions. This is shown through the characters Macduff, Macbeth, and Lady Macbeth.

Whenever there is a mass murder and dozens of innocent people die the world wants to know why the murderer would do such a thing. Sometimes, the murderer is acting under the influence of someone else. This is the case in William Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Macbeth, where the titular character commits multiple crimes after hearing three witches predict his future. In The Tragedy of Macbeth, the witches are the catalyst to all of Macbeth’s crimes. This can be seen when they convince Macbeth that he will become king, they motivate him to kill Banquo and they inform him that he is virtually unkillable and should fear MacDuff.

Have you ever thought of why criminals do the wrong thing?It is probably because they have bad intentions or motivations. Macbeth is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from three witches that one day soon he will become the king of Scotland. With all the ambition inside of Macbeth and all of the pressure being received from Lady Macbeth, Macbeth kills King Duncan and becomes king himself. He then is filled with guilt and paranoia. Forced into committing more murders to protect himself from suspicion , Macbeth soon becomes an oppressor.

In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the theme of guilt and conscience is one of many explored throughout the play. Macbeth, is a well respected Scottish noble who in the beginning of the play is a man everyone looks up to; however as the play progresses he makes a number of bad decisions. Eventually, as a result of his actions he suffers guilt and this plays heavily upon his character until his personality is completely destroyed. Shakespeare uses a range of techniques in order to develop this theme such as, characters, imagery.

* Lady Macbeth is the reason of his corruption however in the end it is completely his choice whether he is to commit a murder or not.

The idea of blame, defined as, “A particular kind of response (e.g. emotion), to a person, at fault, for a wrongful action,” plays a significant role in the study of crime, with respect to degrees of “fault.” In most modern societies, “criminal culpability,” or degrees of wrongdoing, makes a difference between the kinds of punishment one receives for his action(s). To be culpable for a crime, there must be a guilty act (Actus Rea), and a guilty mind (Mens Rea). Degrees of culpability often depends on the kind of mental state, (Mens Rea), one brings to the act in which he engaged. How much one is blameworthy for wrongful conduct depends in part on the state of mind in relation to the wrongful conduct. One’s mental state while engaging in wrongful conduct, which in a legal sense is determined by legislators, is characterized by the following terms: purposely, knowingly, recklessly and negligence.

There are many ways to decide what makes a man guilty. In an ethical sense, there is more to guilt than just committing the crime. In Charles Brockden Browns’ Wieland, the reader is presented with a moral dilemma: is Theodore Wieland guilty of murdering his wife and children, even though he claims that the command came from God, or is Carwin guilty because of his history of using persuasive voices, even though his role in the Wieland family’s murder is questionable? To answer these questions, one must consider what determines guilt, such as responsibility, motives, consequences, and the act itself. No matter which view is taken on what determines a man’s guilt, it can be concluded that

Fletcher’s literary allusion to Shakespeare’s Henry VI defines the underlying social circumstances that define the validity and invalidity of crimes of passion that occur within certain legal

Murder has been notorious for breaking apart families and driving people mad with power. The violent murders in Shakespeare’s Macbeth illustrate that these murders can also happen in the real world.

Is guilt the absence of innocence or is innocence the absence of guilt? What if these two seemingly mutually exclusive concepts are actually multifaceted perceptions that exist within each other? Within Shakespeare’s famous tragedy Hamlet, many characters are culpable of specific crimes while others are innocuous of the same wrong doings. However, the complexities of these characters’ lives interconnect their feelings of guilt and innocence. As a result, no character is left uninvolved with the central conflict of Hamlet avenging the death of his father. Just as Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother, is seen as ‘guilty’ of marrying hastily, she also feels ‘innocent’ of this crime as Hamlet is the only character to point out this impropriety. Throughout

In Shakespeare’s original play, Hamlet, the audience learns that when an individual executes an evil crime, they cannot cover their guilt and they must face the reality of the world. It is important for the audience to realize that no living creature on this earth is innocent. Everyone has performed an immoral act and had to deal with the outcome of the

Edmund cannot be blamed for what he have done. To plot revenge against others is against to our practice morality. People who put law on their hence, cannot be blamed. People sees these