Macbeth's Responsibility In Killing Duncan

A shocking story has developed overnight, with reports that King Duncan was murdered at Macbeth’s castle. Macbeth is now the Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, and he has revealed some shocking details about Duncan’s death. Macduff, Thane of Fife discovered Duncan’s body, with countless stab wounds.

In the play Macbeth, the witches told Macbeth that he will be a king one day, so he decided to kill Duncan to become a king. However, the way Macbeth read the prophecy was not right. There could be other ways to become a king instead of killing Duncan. Therefore, he needs to be punished for the murder. Even after he has slain Duncan, he was afraid of the prophecy that he killed Banquo and the family of Macduff. His aspiration led innocent killed, and for these three reasons, he should be sentenced for murdered.

Lady Macbeth is a very complex character; she has a way to manipulate people in order to come to hold whatever she wants. The play starts off with Macbeth hearing his future by three witches, and he proceeds to write a letter to Lady Macbeth telling her what the three witches have told him. Upon reading this letter, Lady Macbeth immediately starts thinking about killing King Duncan so that Macbeth may become king. “Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be what thou art is promise. Yet I do fear thy nature. It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness o

The witches prophecy leads Macbeth to kill Duncan, seeing as they prophesied that he was to be the new king. Although Macbeth was the one to kill Duncan, he would have never committed such a crime if the witches had not put the ruthless and evil prophecies into his mind. When he kills Duncan, he is regretful, he can

But despite Macbeth’s desire to take the throne, he does not want to kill Duncan. What pushes Macbeth over the edge is Lady Macbeth. She tells Macbeth to follow his ambitions and kill Duncan. She says that murdering Duncan is not a sin, and that it is all worth it for the crown. These words from Lady Macbeth’s mouth are what made Macbeth decide to follow through and commit murder. “I am settled and bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat.” (1.7.92-93). Macbeth will do the act, but he is very reluctant to do so. In conclusion, Macbeth’s ambitions and his loyalty towards Lady Macbeth are huge factors for why Macbeth was torn, and why he decided to kill Duncan.

The first thing that Macbeth's desire leads him to do is to kill King Duncan. In the beginning of the play, Macbeth goes to the three witches and they tell him a few things. “First Witch- All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis! / Second Witch- All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Cawdor! / Third Witch- All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!”(Shakespeare 1.3.49-51) The three witches’ prophecy to Macbeth is that he will move up from his current position and that he will become king soon. With this information in mind, he realizes that he really wants to become a king as soon as possible. He will do anything to make that prophecy come true. He will do anything to make that prophecy come true. He even decides to kill his king, however, it was not an easy choice to make at first. “We will proceed no further in this business. / He hath honored me of late, and I

Macbeth’s tragic flaw of ambition is one of the main reasons of his downfall. This flaw of ambition was placed in Macbeth’s life by the people who influence him the most, which are the 3 witches and Lady Macbeth. Macbeth would not have gotten the intention of becoming king if it were not for 3 witches, when he first meets them they proclaim, “All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter” (1.3.53). When the 3 witches state this it sparks up the idea of becoming king in Macbeth’s mind. This simple idea of becoming king is one of the first reasons for Macbeth’s downfall. The idea is then enhanced by Lady Macbeth. She uses her tricks and tries to convince Macbeth into committing the murder of Duncan when she says, “Art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act and valor as thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that which thou esteem’st the ornament of life, and live a coward in thine own esteem, letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would” (1.7.43-48). Lady Macbeth is initially calling out Macbeth saying he is not a man and he is a coward, this angers Macbeth and starts triggers the series of events that happen afterwards that are part of Macbeth’s tragic

To start, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth become the murders of King Duncan due to their ambition in becoming royalties of Scottland. In order for Macbeth to become the King of Scottland the current king, King Duncan, must pass away or give the throne to Macbeth. At first Macbeth “have no spur / To prick the sides of (his) intent, but only / Vaulting ambition,” (1.7.25-27). Macbeth did not obtain any ambition in obtaining the power of a king but allows fate to guide him to be king. Without the ambition, Macbeth does not have the thoughts of murdering King Duncan. However, Lady Macbeth’s ambition for Macbeth to be king causes Lady Macbeth to have thoughts in murdering King Duncan. Therefore, she plots to murder King Duncan and blames the murder on King Duncan’s guards. With Lady Macbeth’s ambition, it sparks up the idea of murdering a human being, soon becoming a murder. In the end, the Macbeth and Lady Macbeth commit the murder of King Duncan in their castle. After the murder of King Duncan, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth attempts to destroy evidence of the crime by washing their hands with water. Even

Macbeth was given the prophecy that he would one day be king. Macbeth was known by the king as only good things. The king even called Macbeth, “My worthiest kinsman!” (Act 1, Scene 4). But when Lady Macbeth heard that Macbeth would be king and she would be queen her ambition became clear. She needed to convince Macbeth that killing the king was the right thing to do. Lady Macbeth motivates Macbeth by tearing down his manhood. They both became power hungry and too ambition which ultimately, led to their downfall. Lady Macbeth took her own life because the guilt drove her mad. She was seen by the doctor walking around in her sleep talking about the things that Macbeth had done. Macbeth contributed to his own downfall when he killed the king, had people kill Banquo and when he had people kill Macduff’s family. Macbeth’s ambition was to keep his crown and to

In the beginning of the play, Macbeth decides to carry out the weird sister’s prophecy. Macbeth decides to do this because their prediction about the Thane of Cawdor dying has already come true. He figures that since this one prophecy has come true, then the other prophecies will come true as well. When Lady Macbeth enters the play in ACT I Scene V, Macbeth has a change of heart when it comes to killing Duncan and fulfilling the prophecy. Macbeth feels that he needs to do the right thing, and killing Duncan would not be doing so. Macbeth eventually gives in and continues with his and Lady Macbeth’s plan to murder Duncan, but regrets his decision soon after. He is scared by every noise he hears and nervous about all the blood on his hands, claiming

Firstly, Macbeth was an elite warrior in King Duncan’s army, and was thought to be very loyal and noble to his king at the beginning of the play : “What he hath lost, noble Macbeth, hath won” [Macbeth, Act I, scene ii, 77]. This all changed extremely when Macbeth was given his prophecies by the 3 witches: “All hail Macbeth, Hail to the Thane of Glamis” [Macbeth, Act I , Scene iii, 50], that caused an internal factor, his strong ambitious, to come into play and help in his downfall. Once receiving the prophecies, and then soon after being informed that 2 of them have came true (Thane of Cawdor and Glamis), Macbeth became overwhelmed and had his ambitions come into play, in a bad way. Macbeth believed that he should take matters into his own hands, so that the final prophecy: “All hail, Macbeth! That shalt be king hereafter!” [Macbeth, Act I, scene ii, 53], him becoming king, would definitely come true. Macbeth got much too ambitious ,which was shown by how he wanted to kill Duncan as soon as possible: “It were

Macbeth revolves around the ambition of a Scottish lord, Macbeth, to seize the throne from the current king, with the constant persuasion of his scheming wife. The play begins with Macbeth and his friend Banquo meeting with King Duncan after defeating two armies. When leaving to their homes, they see three witches as they cross a moor. They have three prophesies including that Macbeth will made a thane, and will eventually be the King of Scotland. The two are skeptical until Macbeth is approached by Duncan's men stating that the previous thane had betrayed Scotland. This begins Macbeth's extreme lust for power, which is only increased by his wife. He gets to a state where he will do anything to become king including killing Duncan, who had

Macbeth’s ambitious ways takes over his whole inner self throughout his time of first wanting to be king. Macbeth was thought to be a great leader and war hero before he was king. Macbeth was hatched an idea by three suspicious witches in whom he had never come in contact with before. They told him that he would one day become King of Scotland. After the witches disappeared, he got to think a lot about what they told him and pondered the words they spoke. Macbeth sends a letter to his wife about his feelings of what he had heard. When Macbeth returned back to his castle his wife wanted to lead him down a dark path and feed his ambition. Macbeth decides he wants to go after the crown after consulting his wife. "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on th'other...." (Act I, scene vii) This shows that Macbeth’s only reason to kill Duncan is for his ambition. Macbeth ends up killing Duncan. The way Macbeth killed Duncan made it a great crime scene. Macbeth still

Macbeth is the new thane of Cawdor (I:ii 65-68) and in the act (I:iv) macbeth wants to kill Duncan. Macbeth was told by the witches he will one day become king. Lady Macbeth likes what she heard,but she thinks Macbeth is too nice. Everytime Macbeth changed his mind about doing bad things lady Macbeth questions his loyalty to her. Lady Macbeth would question his manhood, macbeth lost the thoughts on killing Duncan.

In the scene before Act 2 Scene 2, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth decide to make a huge decision, and kill King Duncan. Killing the king was a very sacrilegious thing to do, as the king was known to be appointed by God. Lady Macbeth pushed “loyal” Macbeth into killing The king, she patronizes Macbeth with her cunning ways, offending his manhood, his courage and his loyalty to his word to her. Macbeth, seduced by her ways, agrees to go on with this horrendous plan.