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Lady Macbeth's Reasoning For The Death Of King Duncan

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The reasoning for Shakespeare to include Lady Macbeth was for her to question Macbeth’s manhood whether if he was willing to do anything to become the next king of Scotland. To become the next king, the quickest way was to kill the current king. (King Duncan.). Macbeth was disusing the witches’ prophecy of how he would rule Scotland one day. Lady Macbeth urged him to get rid of King Duncan. However, Macbeth saw no point in killing him because Duncan has never done anything wrong to him and on top of that Kind Duncan recently made him the thane of Cawdor. At this Point Lady Macbeth starts to Question he husband if he is a real man and states that if he doesn’t action she would. Macbeth starts to fell a loose of power due to his manipulative…show more content…
They gave him three apparitions. The first apparition stated to beware Macduff. “Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff. Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me, enough” Act 4, Scene 1,PG 4 73-74 Fortunately, Macduff killed Macbeth in the end of the play and peace came to Scotland. If someone killed Macbeth else the witch’s prophecy would be inaccurate. Banquo’s reasoning for being in the play is also to support the theme of supernatural. For instance, when Shakespeare introduces us to the witches the first time we also see Banquo and Macbeth listing to their prophecy. The witches told them that one day Banquo’s son would rule Scotland. however, they also mention Macbeth becoming king very soon as well. If Banquo wasn’t in this story his son wouldn’t exist either so that prophecy wouldn’t exist or just be a lie. Another reason Banquo needed to be in the play was to prevent his son from getting killed by the murders that Macbeth hired. Going more into details, Macbeth didn’t want to take any risks so he hired the murders to get rid of Banquo and his son. However, The murders only were only able to kill Banquo since fled away. If Banquo wasn’t there it would be much more likely for the murders to kill and if they did the witches wouldn’t be wrong .Malcom flees after his father King Duncan had gotten killed to England. He is need in the play so he can team up with the king. Malcom and the king both get reinforcements.
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