Macbeth and King Duncan

To begin, the witches were a big influence to Macbeth’s serial murders, with the prophecies that they told Macbeth. The prophecy he is told that influenced him the most was, that he would be king. It seemed to him, Macbeth, that there was only one way to become king, and that was by killing the current king, King Duncan. I believe that Macbeth was insane from the start, he was known as a hero and the people

Macbeth's feels that his destiny is to become King and rule with all the power that goes with kingship. The three witches on his way back to the kingdom, prophesied that he would rise to kingship. They said "All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis" (I, 3, 48), and then as the thane of Cawdor "All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Cawdor" (I, 3, 49). At this point in the play Macbeth had just become thane of Glamis, and the thane of Cawdor is still alive. Then, the witches greeted Macbeth as the King of Scotland saying "All hail, Macbeth! That shalt be King hereafter" (I, 3, 50). This is the point in the tragedy where Macbeth starts to think as a villain. If the witches had never greeted him as King on Scotland, then he would probably never have contemplated killing Duncan in the first place. At first, he believes that he will need to kill King Duncan. Though at the end of Act 1, Scene 3, he thinks that perhaps he doesn't need to do anything to become the king saying "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me without my stir.", showing he is a man of honor and morals. Then, Lady Macbeth hears of the prophecy in his letters and decides immediately for him that King Duncan must die, showing Macbeth's doubt. An

After Macbeth was told the prophecies about him becoming king he had to let his wife know. So after knowing what the future supposedly held for Macbeth, Lady Macbeth started to get power hungry way before Macbeth did. Lady Macbeth wanted the power so badly that she deceived her own husband into doing an evil bidding so they could get the throne and power that they soon desired so much. In (Act 1 scene 5) Lady Macbeth had summoned an evil spirit to take away her decency and fill it with evilness and sinfulness so she could block out the guilt that would come her way. She knew that Macbeth was too full of human affection so she said she would spill her evilness into his ear just so she can get him to do the evil deed of killing King Duncan. Lady Macbeth compares to a manipulative kind of bully who can easily trick you with her influences and controlling manner. If Lady Macbeth was never so power hungry for power after what the witches told her and Macbeth than Macbeth would probably never have done what he had to King Duncan and Macbeth wouldn’t have changed and turned into a dominate, cowardly, manipulative bully. After Lady Macbeth spilled her malicious and devious ways into Macbeth, he turned and took advantage of King Duncan, because in act 1 scene 4 Macbeth said to King Duncan “ The service and the loyalty i owe in doing it pays itself”(Shakespeare 223). Basically Macbeth was saying he has

The dream of becoming king has ironically changed from a bright future to a tragic end due to some of the crucial decisions Macbeth has made during the course of his journey and a number of his actions will backfire on him. The first of his actions that backfired was when he murdered King Duncan which he regrets afterwards. Another action that backfired was the murder of the guards which could've drastically changed the outcome of this entire story since he could've gotten away with King Duncan's murder if he didn't commit it. The third action that backfired on Macbeth was when he ordered the murderers to murder Banquo and Fleance at which they failed to eliminate Fleance.

In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the main character, Macbeth, is a brave and loyal subject to the King of Scotland, but as the play progresses, his character begins to change drastically. Evil and unnatural powers, as well as his own passion to become king, take over his better half and eventually lead to his downfall. The three main factors that intertwine with one another that contribute to Macbeth’s tragic end are the prophecies told by the three witches, Lady Macbeth’s influence, and finally, Macbeth’s excessive passion and ambition which drove his desire to become king to the utmost extreme. The prophecy told by the three witches was what triggers the other factors that contribute to Macbeth s downfall. In the first act, the witches

Lady Macbeth has the power over her husband to persuade him into doing anything she requests. She manipulates Macbeth with incredible efficiency by overruling all of his thoughts and changing his perspective on the present. Even though the many tasks that need to be completed are difficult to understand why they need to be done, Lady Macbeth will always convince Macbeth to do it. Her husband often tells her that she has a “masculine soul” which is obvious due to her murderous and envious actions. When the time came to kill king Duncan, Macbeth believes that his wife has gone insane and tells her that the crime they were about to commit was a horrible idea. As a result of his questioning, Lady Macbeth says that executing the crime will show his loyalty to her. On the night of the assassination Lady Macbeth watched the guards of the castle become drunk and unaware of what was going on. Lady Macbeth sent her husband into the castle to kill King Duncan. The married couple fled the scene leaving the guards covered in the evidence. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are stained with the blood of their victims and the feeling of guilt in their stomach.

Lady Macbeth understands Macbeth’s lust for the throne, and lusts for it herself. She also understands his ambition, but feels that her husband might regret and decide against killing Duncan to steal his throne, as she regards to Macbeth as “full o’ the milk of human kindness” (1.5.4). Since Lady Macbeth fears that Macbeth would turn against her and not go through with the plan, she decides that it must be up to her to get it done correctly. She asks that only the “direst cruelty” (1.5.33) fill her, as she gathers everything that is evil to her in order to murder Duncan. Even though Macbeth was hesitant over the idea of murdering Duncan, his wife convinces him that acting on his impulse of killing Duncan is the right thing to do. This shown when Macbeth starts to second guess the thought of murdering his king, and that it should not be done. However, his wife verbally harasses him into agreeing. Lady Macbeth questions his love for her, questions his masculinity, and criticizes his desire to be king by saying, “When you durst do it, then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man” (1.5.49-51). As his successfully offends him, he decides that he needs to prove his manhood, his love of his wife, and his ambition to be king, he agrees to murder Duncan.

She is power hungry and uses a range of techniques to persuade Macbeth to kill King Duncan, the strongest technique is when she says “Are you a man” by her saying this she is calling Macbeth weak and useless which in the Jacobean time is a big deal since men where meant to be strong, brave and fearless, by Lady Macbeth saying, this she is questioning her husband’s authority as a man.

Shakespeare's shortest play, Macbeth, is also, consequently, his most shocking and intense. We see the essence of tragedy: in this case, the protagonist transforms himself from a noble warrior who is loyal to his king and fights for his county to a reduced tyrant by the play's end. Macbeth's divided soul which is in turmoil is the cause of his deterioration from a respected warrior to a despised tyrant.

Lady Macbeth tries to convince Macbeth to kill king Duncan, so she can live her dream life. “And to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man”(Macbeth 1.7.50-51). This quote explains how Lady Macbeth is trying to persuade her husband in doing the death of king Duncan. One characteristic that sticks out about lady Macbeth, Is that she is a smooth talker to whom she knows she can convince in doing what she won’t do. She tells Macbeth what he wants to hear for her own fame. “And we’ll not fail. When Duncan is asleep”(Macbeth 1.7.61). While Macbeth is shocked and frightened about Lady Macbeth’s thoughts. She explains to him that king Duncan’s death will not be known of them, As why they do it while he is sleeping. Lady Macbeth tells him the future they will have if he does her plan. Now Scotland gets turned upside down. Macbeth kills king Duncan against his will. Lady Macbeth talked Macbeth into killing king Duncan so she would not have to live with the quilt of doing the murder. Lady Macbeth’s plan starts to unravel, As they hear a voice from another room. Macbeth is so out of sorts, that he has left the bloody dagger he use to kill king Duncan at the scene of

At the beginning of the play, Macbeth is established as a Scottish hero for the audience. As we continue to watch the play, Macbeth is characterized as “brave”, “noble” and a “[minion of valour]” by his peers. Through his courageous and honourable acts in the war, the king, Duncan named Macbeth the Thane of Cawdor. These segments of Macbeth are pivotal because it shows his nature from prior to when he let his ambition control him. However, before he is given this title Macbeth meets three witches which prophecies that “[He’ll.] be king hereafter...” allowing Macbeth ambition for the throne to be realized. To achieve his ambition Macbeth and Lady Macbeth schemes to assassinate the King; this show how his ambition has started to enrapture him leading him away from his hero title and to his downfall. Through Lady Macbeth's manipulation and Macbeth's own corrupted ambition, his judgment becomes corrode arching him to killing the Duncan and start his downfall. Through, allowing his ambition to govern his action Macbeth soul has begun to taint beginning the destruction of himself in the future. This view can be seen after Macbeth is named king, his beginning of self-destruction caused by

In the 7th grade I was suspended from school for being an “instigator.” I would cause disputes by persuading individuals who didn’t like one another, to hate one another. I’d gradually use my dynamic lingo to provoke the victims in the so called scuffle to get to that final step where they’d lose it and fight. I got what I wanted by manipulating the ones who were vulnerable and unsure what to do when placed in a troubling situation. Understanding the consequences, I received the same punishment as if I was in the fight myself. That same exact concept could be used to express how Lady Macbeth is more responsible for slaying King Duncan herself.

Macbeth, a noble servant of the King, and King Duncan, the ruler of Scotland, are eminently similar. However, what distinguishes theses two characters is not their ambition but their intentions. William Shakespeare, the playwright of Macbeth, very deliberately gave both Macbeth and King Duncan similar character traits but completely contrary motives. As Macbeth is well-liked, ambitious and selfish; King Duncan is also well-liked, ambitious, and selfless. That small detail that separates the two is is used by Shakespeare to show that it is not ambition that corrupts a person but selfishness.

In the dark room Macbeth is panicking about what he will do to king Duncan. His wife tells him “it’s ok sit down” while in her dark colored outfit. He takes his seat with everyone at the dinner table still thinking about King Duncan.

Said Lady Macbeth, “Nought’s had, all’s spent. Where our desire is got without content: ’Tis safer to be that which we destroy than, by destruction, dwell in doubtful joy.” In Act III, Scene i Macbeth said of the witches and the murder, “For them the gracious Duncan have I murdered; put rancours in the vessel of my peace only for them; and mine eternal jewel given to the common enemy of man.” In those sentences, we can see the irony in the witches’ prophecies. The implied meaning of the witches’ prophecies was that Macbeth would be king. Macbeth took this to mean that he would be a happy king, and so dreams of him on the throne appeared. He thought that becoming king would be easy, he just had to get Duncan out of the way. Everything turned out as Macbeth had imagined, except that he was not happy as the king. The guilt from Duncan’s murder, not to mention that of Banquo’s, made being the king a horrible experience for Macbeth, all because of the witches. This irony would make the audience mistrust the witches in the back of their minds, and therefore also put a vague fear over the whole play, because of the realisation of the witches’ relentless sinister determination to disrupt peace and order in Scotland.