In the Shakespearean play The Tragedy of Macbeth, three witches’ prophesized that Macbeth would be king. When he heard this, he sent a letter to his wife telling her what the witches said. When Macbeth got home, he told his wife that King Duncan was coming to his castle Inverness for a feast. Lady Macbeth told him that it would be the perfect time to kill him and take over as king. So she goes and creates a plan to get rid of the king without suspicion falling on them. She tells Macbeth that she will drug the guards, and then he can go in and kill the king, then rub the blood on the guards so the blame goes on them. So they decide to do it early in the morning. Before Macbeth can kill the king he chickens out and says that he will not kill his king because he is a good man. …show more content…
She told Macbeth that if you go one step further by doing what you dared to do before, you’ll be that much more the man. “ (Macbeth Act 1.7, p.2) Before Macbeth goes to complete the plan he sees a bloody dagger in front of him. He saw the dagger before he even goes to kill the king. He had all kinds of hallucinations before and after killing the king. He says “The voice kept crying, “Sleep no more!” to everyone in the house. “Macbeth has murdered sleep, and therefore Macbeth will sleep no more.”(Macbeth Act 2.2, P.3). In this he is saying that he had murdered sleep therefore he can no longer
First, is the Movie Macbeth, in the beginning, Macbeth gets confonted by three evil witches that are just bad news. These witches tell Macbeth what he is, “Thane of Cawdor, Thane of Glamis and then, The King herafter” (Casson, 1979). Which tells him he will be the king since the witches got the other two things right. Then Macbeth had to tell the information he got from the witches to his wife. Macbeth didn’t really want to kill King Duncan because he was like father to him, but by telling Lady Macbeth it persuaded Macbeth to kill King Duncan because he and she wanted the crown now. Lady Macbeth hosts a party with the king in her house and in the middle of the night she walks and takes a kitchen knife to stab King Duncan. This makes Malcolm and Donalbain flee to Ireland becuase their fauther, the king was killed. Then later on Macbeth kills his best friend Banquo because he knew to much and knew Macbeth had killed King Duncan, he then kills the wife and family of MacDuff to protect himself from losing the crown. Macbeth then goes back to the witches and asks them for help and they say “when Birnam Woods meets Dunsinane and someone not from woman
Macbeth killed the King and waited for nature to take its course. Once when everybody realized that King Duncan was dead, Macbeth was named King shortly after. Being King and having all of the power over Scotland was great for Macbeth, but the guilt also was getting heavier and heavier on his shoulders. He began to realize that would he had done was a major mistake and he shouldn’t of listened to his wife. When he questioned if he would fail his attempt to kill the king he should have backed down but Lady Macbeth said some convincing words, “We fail?
Macbeth is confused as he is arguing with himself on what he should do. He states reasons not to kill Duncan, because Macbeth is his noble kinsmen and the act would bring dishonor. However, he also states reason why he should kill him, because Macbeth will then become king and fulfill the witches ' fortune. Lady Macbeth, who appears in the beginning as the driving force for the murder of King Duncan, also develops internal conflict. At first, Lady Macbeth seems to be a woman of extreme confidence and will. But, as situations become more and more unstable in the play, guilt develops inside her. For instance, she exclaims; "Wash your hands. Put on your nightgown. / Look not so pale. I tell you again, Banquo 's / Burried; he cannot come out on 's grave" (Shakespeare V, ii, 65-67). Lady Macbeth sleepwalks and frets about her evil wrongdoings because she is extremely guilty of her influence on Macbeth to commit the murder. Lady Macbeth reacts emotionally and dwells on her actions as guilt eats at her soul.
It all began when Lady Macbeth's craving to have power overtook every part of her body. When inviting King Duncan to sleep over at her house, Lady Macbeth took this to her advantage by tempting Macbeth to do the unthinkable: killing the King. Despite the fact Macbeth was terrified to do it, she convinces him to do so by degrading him and saying “Fie my lord, fie, a soldier, and afeared?” at lines 32 and 33 from Act 5, scene 1. She believed that no one would even think of blaming them because Macbeth was such a noteworthy soldier to Duncan. At the lines 34 and 35 when she says “Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?”, she realizes that even if Duncan bid farewell to this world, his death left behind an enormous amount of consequences and conflicts that now stain her hands from the metaphorical blood still running from his body. Macbeth never thought of killing Duncan until Lady Macbeth administered the situation and controlled every move Macbeth made, as if he was her puppet.
Macbeth takes matters into his own hands and takes the life of King Duncan. Although it was Macbeth who committed the murder, it was not entirely him. Previously Lady Macbeth belittled Macbeth for not being able to commit a murder. What Lady Macbeth does is demand murder from Macbeth as a confirmation of his manhood and even threatens to take her love away if he doesn’t do what is asked of him. After killing Duncan, Macbeth realizes what he has done as he sees the blood scattered against his robes.
After hearing the prophecy that he will become king, Macbeth resolves to leave his future up to fate proving his pride and prestige are very important to him. Once he is told of Malcolm being named successor to the throne, Macbeth decides that if he is going to reach his goal he cannot leave it up to luck. Again Macbeth’s resolve to murder Duncan wavers when he leaves the grand banquet to assess his situation and decide whether he wants to proceed. His arguments include wishing to keep his honor and not kill Duncan for Duncan is there ‘in double trust’. Thus, Macbeth is shown to be clinging to his honor. Finally, Macbeth must stand his ground one last time against his wife who uses tact to emasculate Macbeth. In his final attempt to stop the whole ordeal before it can start Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth that he does not want to ‘cast aside’ the honor he has just recently received. Unfortunately, Lady Macbeth will have none of what her husband is saying and so convinces Macbeth to follow through with his plan of murdering King Duncan. Hence, the audience is given the first example of how powerful selfish motives are and how quickly they can spread to others along with cause them to perform unthinkable
Macbeth tells his wife and his wife has a plan to kill King Duncan. After this Duncan’s sons leave the kingdom making Macbeth king. After realizing that Banquo’s son will become king one day he send hitmen
Say you were given a prophecy by three unknown witches out of the blue, would you believe in the knowledge they came to foretell? This play, the play of Macbeth is a tale of ambition, greed, and manipulation through others including strangers and loved ones. Macbeth the main character, is given a prophecy that he will become king by those three witches, yet this only leads mental frustration. Later, he is then informed that he will become thane of Cawdor, which leads him to think that the prophecy will be true and in fact he will become king. Now so on an so forth he tells his wife, who then beings to manipulate him and urges him to commit murder of the King, while inviting as a guest in their home. That night King Duncan is brutally stabbed
Macbeth is set in Scotland in 1606. This book stars Macbeth and Lady Macbeth who fight to become king and to have ultimate power. There are also three witches who tell prophecies that come true and Macbeth follow them. This book is written by the famous William Shakespeare who also wrote another famous book; Romeo and Juliet.
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.
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
To begin with, Lady Macbeth is forcing Macbeth to kill Duncan so they can be King and Queen. Macbeth is not sure that he wants
Three witches conspired against Macbeth, a man who strategically won many battles. In fact, Macbeth had won so many battles that Duncan was impressed and granted him the title Thane of Cawdor. After being gifted the title, he and his sidekick Banquo ran into the three witches. The trio tells Banquo he will be a father to some kings in Scotland. Then, a guy named Ross tells us that the previous Thane of Cawdor ended up being a traitor and will be executed.
In my opinion, I think the witches in Macbeth look mysterious with a pointy nose, big mouse with dirty teeth, small eyes and long grey hair. For me, I always think witches have special magic that they lived differently from humans. For instance, they may not need to brush their teeth, so I think they will have dirty teeth. Witches always wear in purple, so I think the three witches will also wear those long purple cloak and purple pointed hat. Those hats are enormous that humans will not wear regularly.
Macbeth and his wife want this so bad that they are willing to fight any obstacle to achieve it. Lady Macbeth’s ambition is to convince her husband to kill the king and the only way to do that is to make him feel less of a man. Lady Macbeth digs under all Macbeth’s imperfections and make him so angry that he comes back with bloody daggers confirming he had killed the king. But this is not the end of this act he also kills the guards to frame them for the king's death he doesn't want anyone to be suspicious about him or his wife.