Laugh to scorn / the power of man, for none of woman born / shall harm Macbeth” (4.1.79-81). When Malcolm goes to visit Macduff, Macduff hears of Macbeth’s tyranny of Scotland and pleads, “Bleed, bleed poor country” (4.3.31). Both Malcolm and Macduff plan a war to kill Macbeth because Scotland has an “untitled tyrant bloody-sceptered” (4.3.104). Before the war against Macbeth and Macduff, Lady Macbeth figured no one would care if they figured out Macbeth and Lady Macbeth killed King Duncan because Macbeth was a powerful king.
Most of the characters who were killed in the play died off stage and Macbeth was killed on stage this shows that due to his evilness and the crimes he committed Shakespeare showed that this is what will happen to you and too much ambition is not a good
Act 2 from Macbeth is a very captivating and significant section of the book. It encompasses of King Duncan’s murder by Macbeth, so he could become King. Prior to the killing, Macbeth had an excentric hallucination of a blood-stained dagger that epitomised, to Macbeth, to go and murder Duncan. The next day, Macbeth blamed Duncan’s attendants for the killing. In fear of being killed Duncan’s sons, Malcom (who was heir to the throne) and Donalbain, flee the country.
As Macbeth committed more and more crimes, several other characters in the play raised suspicions about his intentions, one of these people being Macduff. While Macduff was out gathering an army to overthrow Macbeth, Macbeth ordered for Lady Macduff and her children to be killed as
In Macbeth's case he killed king duncan out of wanting to be king, and ended up getting killed as an after effect of this. Every action in this world has an equal and opposite reaction. As you know the the of this report is Karma, as Macbeth quotes “unless the deed, go with
The people killed were his wife, Lady Macduff, and his son. This was supposed to be the murder of Macduff rather than his family. The reason he killed his family is simply because Macduff was not there. The witches showed Macbeth three apparitions and one of them told him to beware of Macduff. After the first apparition, who told him to beware of Macduff, Macbeth planned to kill Macduff.
Macbeth was always power-hungry as soon as he found out that he can kill Duncan , his first thoughts about it was “My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man ,That function is smother 'd in surmise, and nothing is but what is not.” Macbeth’s first thought after realising that he can be a king was to murder Duncan, That indicates that Macbeth always wanted to kill King Duncan to take the throne and when Lady macbeth got the letter from his husband explaining that the witches prophesied him saying that he can be a king the first thing that came in her mind was to kill Duncan and take over. She also talks about Macbeth always wanted to do it but he isn’t man enough to do this task “ Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be ,What thou art promised.
By the reason of the witches’ foreshadow, Macbeth murdered King Duncan in order for him to become a king himself. After the action of murder of Duncan, he said “will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”(2.2.60). Through the line, Macbeth expressed how traumatized he was with the guilt. Since Duncan was he’s guest, cousin and the king, it was hard for him to digest the fact that he killed all
In William Shakespeare's, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Macbeth is a noble warrior who had to kill the king, Duncan, in order to take the crown due to prophecies he was told by the witches. After the murder many people were suspicious of Macbeth including his friend Banquo. Macbeth knows the prophecy of Banquo as well, he shall be father of kings, and since Macbeth is king he has to do something about that. He hires murderers to kill Banquo and his son Fleance. The audience is supposed to accept Banquo's ghost as a fantasy representing Macbeth's guilty conscience.
It all started when Macbeth received a prophecy from the three witches saying that he would be made Thane of Cawdor and King of Scotland. Later, on he had dinner with King Duncan at his castle and that same night he writes to Lady Macbeth to tell her all that has happened. After telling his wife all that has happened, she tries to persuade him into killing the King. Their plan was to get the guards really drunk so that they blacked out and wouldn’t remember anything and then go in for the kill. While the king is asleep, Macbeth sneaks into the king’s room and stabs him, despite all the blood on the dagger and his hands and all the consequences that would come with it.
The play “The Tragedy of Macbeth” by William Shakespeare is about how guilt weighs in on a person's conscious and reveals how if strong enough, guilt can make someone so paranoid that they cannot think straight. Macbeth’s guilt begins to rise after he kills King Duncan to gain power. Macbeth first shows his guilt when he says “ To Know my deed ‘twere best not know myself” (2.3 71). Macbeth is basically saying that in order for him to comprehend what he has done, he must lose his conscience. From this point in the story, Macbeth’s guilt avalanches into something huge that Macbeth didn’t expect.