Macbeth's Speech

Act 1 Scene 4 King Duncan receives Macbeth and Banquo with appreciation for their achievements towards the success if the battle. King Duncan announces that his eldest son Malcolm would inherit the throne from him and be called King of Scotland after him ‘Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter

at the time is king Duncun, a noble and honest king. He has two sons

He was folded into the war, he was part of the waste”(153). O'Brien explains how him and his crew wanted to talk about what happened but is was just too hard to wrap their heads around. They all lost someone that was important

“Then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.” Macbeth notifies his wife that they will not be killing the king. “We will proceed no further in this business” he tells her.

Macbeth replies that he owes everything to _____________________ and would give his life to keeping Duncan “[s]afe.”

Ladies and gentleman of the jury. Sitting before you today is a man accused of the murder of Duncan, the King of Scotland. The prosecution will portray Macbeth as an ambitious man, one who plotted to murder his own cousin, so that he could lay claim to the title of the crown. But the issue in this case is not whether Macbeth murdered the deceased. This fact is not disputed. What you must determine is whether Macbeth was of sound mind when he committed this act. Evidence showed that this was not so. In fact, Macbeth was the victim in this crime. It was he, who was possessed and brainwashed by the evil witches. Then it was Lady Macbeth who took advantage of his state of mind. She pushed him over the edge to fulfil her ambitions of being

Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!” (Third Witch) “All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king

Not feeling any remorse, she is able to skillfully let go of guilt and skillfully get rid of evidence. As Macbeth comes back to her after the deed is complete he is very shaken up and extremely paranoid that someone saw him with the bloody daggers. Lady Macbeth tells him, “These deeds must not be thought after these ways; so it will make us mad” (2.2.34). By saying this she believes that you shouldn’t feel guilty about doing evil, you should just get it done and move on because thinking about it will only drive you crazy. Also she thinks when commiting violent acts such as murder make sure to get rid of any evidence that will lead people to believe you are a suspect. Frustrated and upset that her husband came home bathed in blood and the daggers in his hand she states, “Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers.”(2.2.52-53). She is extremely disappointed in Macbeth for being so careless and cannot believe that he did not go through the well thought out plan smoothly. In her eyes he is still a coward and does not know how to behave calmy when feeling guilty.

In walked Lady Macbeth, " My Thane" she spoke, " are you prepared for the event to come". Macbeth sighed and turned towards his wife, whom he had made so many sacrifices for- one being his morality. "I'm ready to get on with this" he replied, " the sooner it is over with- the sooner I can move on with life". Macbeth busied himself with picking robes for the procession.

Unfortunately he died 4000 years ago, in 2000 BCE by 3 types of spears. The first one from the front, cut the intestine including the kidney, the second spear was thrown behind his spine and the third spear bounce off the skull.

B. Macbeth tells his wife “ I have done the deed…” informing his wife that he did what “needed” to be done to seize the crown (Act 2, Scene 2).

is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation”

This deed is the worst possible crime, kingship; Macbeth has murdered king Duncan in cold blood. Macbeth, the brave warrior at the beginning of the play has been driven by his ambition to be king. However, the source of this evil deed may not have come from Macbeth himself.

King Duncan has been invited into Macbeth’s home, to dine and enjoy himself. He expects to have a great time and is ridiculously thankful, yet what makes this ironic is the fact that the hostess that he is praising is conspiring to kill him-he will be murdered that night. This represents the duplicitous nature of Macbeth, as the outward nobility of his character is contrasted greatly to his true spirit.

P.S. You will not believe that news my ears have just heard. Banquo has been