Why Is Lady Macbeth More Responsible For The Murder Of King Duncan

William Shakespeare`s Macbeth tells audience a play of murders and sleepless nights. Macbeth is the thane of Glamis and a mighty general of Scotland. Macbeth is predicted to be the king of Scotland. However, the King of Scotland,King Duncan, is alive and is a good king to not to be murder by his people. Macbeth kills King Duncan and he becomes king with the fear of everyone killing him. Therefore, he kills anyone that is suspect to kill him. Macbeth becomes progressively more evil as the play continues.

Essay topic: Is Lady Macbeth more responsible than Macbeth for the murder of King Duncan? Is Lady Macbeth a more evil character than her husband and, if so, why?

“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.

Assuming the role of stronger partner, she manipulates Macbeth with effectiveness by ignoring his objections about the murder. Refusing to understand his doubts and hesitations about the situation, she scorns his manhood by calling him a, “coward,” (1.7.43) and questions his virility, “What beast was’t, then, that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man,” (1.7.48-49) until Macbeth feels that he must commit the murder to prove himself.

“When Lady MacBeth receives the letter from MacBeth telling her that he wants to kill Duncan, she fears that he would not have the courage to go through with it” (Shakespeare 31). She brings out the worst in him and encourages him to kill King Duncan. She persuades him by constantly telling him negative things to get MacBeth to believe that he is doing the right thing. “Look like th’ innocent flower, but be the serpent under ’t” (Shakespeare 35). Lady MacBeth is the one who tells MacBeth to be this vicious creature and makes him think that killing King Duncan is okay. Because of Lady Macbeth’s behavior, MacBeth was led to become a murderer. Macbeth should not be held accountable for his actions since Lady MacBeth is the one who convinced him to commit the crime that started his madness and turn him into a monster.

In Macbeth, Duncan, a king, is killed by Lady Macbeth and Macbeth himself. Many argued, and still do, whether or not Macbeth really killed Duncan. In other words, did he even have a choice? From what is told in the story, it seems pretty clear that both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are responsible for Duncan’s death, though one may have had more cause in it than the other.

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In Macbeth a tragedy by William Shakespeare a general named Macbeth is given a prediction from three witches that he will one day be King of Scotland. When Macbeth hears this he becomes fierce and filled with ambition to kill King Duncan and take the throne for himself. Numerous people push him into killing King Duncan so he could become king and rule Scotland. Shakespeare writes this play about power, ambition, and betrayal to guide the reader into identifying who is the most responsible for the murder of King Duncan. There are many “bad guys” in the play and I believe the most responsible is Lady Macbeth.

In Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth manipulates and demeans her husband in order to get what she wants and make herself feel better. Lady Macbeth thinks highly of Macbeth but thinks that he is to easy going to get to the top. When they first come up with the plan to kill Duncan, Lady Macbeth forces the plan on Macbeth. “Th’ unguarded Duncan, what not put upon/ his spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt/of our great quell?”

Lady Macbeth solely set up Duncan's murder making it as easy as possible for Macbeth to commit the assassination of the king. This is another way in which Lady Macbeth is responsible for the assassination of Duncan. The audience does not know that Lady Macbeth feels that she is responsible for the destruction of her husband until the end when she sleepwalks. Lady Macbeth is excellent at hiding her true feelings.

In William Shakespeare, ‘Macbeth’, Lady Macbeth is the most responsible for the death of King Duncan. Lady Macbeth is to blame because she is mean, influential and emotionless. First of all, Duncan’s death is because of Lady Macbeth wickedness. For instance, after reading the letter Lady Macbeth immediately starts thinking about killing the King. “ O, never, / Shall sun that morrow see” (Shakespeare 1.5.66-67).

Who could be to blame for the deaths of Duncan, Banquo, The Macduff family, Lady macbeth, and Macbeth. Could it be the Witches or fate itself after all the chain of deaths seems very persistent throughout that time period. Duncan being the First King in this story was a loved king by most played a significant role during this time.

Lady Macbeth is more responsible because she is the one that came up with the idea to kill King Duncan. Macbeth is to nervous about the killing of King Duncan and the Karma that could follow. He is thinking how sad the people would be because King Duncan is dead. He has no real reason to kill King Duncan because he likes him so the only reason to kill King Duncan is for himself to be king. Macbeth tells lady Macbeth he does not wanna kill the king.

Macbeth tells a story of deceit, betrayal, and a man who, once pushed, would stop at nothing to get what he desired and keep it that way. The murder of King Duncan was not simply just because of Macbeth, as most people would usually believe since he was the one that went ahead with stabbing him. The blame should rightly fall on both Lady Macbeth and the Witches. There are multiple facts to support this statement.

4. Thesis Statement: Even though Lady Macbeth did not play a direct role in              King Duncan’s murder, she was still responsible because of her              malevolent and persistent nature towards her husband.