Macbeth's Responsibility In Killing Duncan

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

In the tragic Macbeth play, a battle takes place in Scotland. Macbeth leads his soldiers to victory so he sets out on a journey back home after winning the battle. On his way, back he comes across three witches tell Macbeth he will become the Thane of Cawdor and the king of Scotland. Macbeth tells lady Macbeth that he will become king and she tells Macbeth to kill the king. However, at first Macbeth was loyal to king Duncan, but he becomes overcome by greed and ends up killing king Duncan. After Macbeth becomes the king it is clear he is obsessed with gaining powering and is willing to kill anyone standing in his way. Macbeth tries to avoid facing the consequences of his murder of Duncan, and while doing so he also kills Duncan’s Servants,

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

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

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.

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

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

Early in the play, the prophecy of the three witches and Lady Macbeth’s influence kick-starts Macbeth’s ambition to attain the throne. To satisfy his desire, Macbeth knows he must murder those in power but is guilt-ridden on the whole scheme. However, his

Macbeth aspired to be king which served as a tragic flaw that led to his dismiss. After hearing he will become king, he became overwhelmed by ambition and greed. Macbeth is portrayed as a brave and noble man for winning the battle; however, he becomes the victim of an irrepressible ambition which have no boundaries. Macbeth's obsession for power takes control of his actions and desperate needs. Macbeth recognized his intentions were completely immoral, however his ambition betrayed him, forcing him to murder the king and anyone who posed a threat to his throne. Soon after, Macbeth became fearful and felt guilty and began committing more murders. This boosted his confidence in the prophecies eventually lead to his downfall and he is overthrown and killed by those he has wronged.