Duncan's Death In Macbeth
Who is the one responsible for the death of king Duncan, Lady Macbeth or Macbeth? The mastermind behind the killing of king Duncan is Lady Macbeth. Now though that is evident the actual one who killed the king was Macbeth, but where Lady Macbeth comes into play is that she devised the plan and convinced Macbeth to do her killing, she ran the whole show. She did this because she wants to be queen so bad and really becomes crazy with the thought of having power. Lady Macbeth is the responsible one for King Duncan’s death with the help from the soon to be king Macbeth. In order to be Queen Lady Macbeth had to devise a plan to kill the king and get Macbeth on the throne. Lady Macbeth expresses a plan to kill the king and explains how that by planting
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The time has come, and the plan must go into effect immediately. Macbeth seems anxious but it must be done in order for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to be in power. “I go, and it is done: the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven, or to hell” (2.1. 62-64). Macbeth’s duty is this, and the time has come. Killing the king is his job in order to be in power which is what they want. Even though the consequences could be death he knows that it must be done and he finally is showing courage to do this when before he wasn’t convinced to kill the king. Know that the deed is done, Macbeth must then move on to the next part of the plan. Which is staging the murder of king Duncan on his wasted guards. “I am afraid to think what I have done, look on’t again I dare not. Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers, the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures. Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil” (2.2. 50-54). After killing the king the next part was the staging of the guards, but Macbeth becomes soft/cowardly and can’t go through seeing what he has just done, that meaning, he can not finish the job. Lady Macbeth must now do Macbeth’s part and stage the guards with the bloody daggers, so she takes the daggers from the cowardly Macbeth, walks to the guards and disguises it to wear the guards killed king Duncan. Macbeth is known
The time has come, and the plan must go into effect immediately. Macbeth seems anxious but it must be done in order for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to be in power. “I go, and it is done: the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven, or to hell” (2.1. 62-64). Macbeth’s duty is this, and the time has come. Killing the king is his job in order to be in power which is what they want. Even though the consequences could be death he knows that it must be done and he finally is showing courage to do this when before he wasn’t convinced to kill the king. Know that the deed is done, Macbeth must then move on to the next part of the plan. Which is staging the murder of king Duncan on his wasted guards. “I am afraid to think what I have done, look on’t again I dare not. Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers, the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures. Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil” (2.2. 50-54). After killing the king the next part was the staging of the guards, but Macbeth becomes soft/cowardly and can’t go through seeing what he has just done, that meaning, he can not finish the job. Lady Macbeth must now do Macbeth’s part and stage the guards with the bloody daggers, so she takes the daggers from the cowardly Macbeth, walks to the guards and disguises it to wear the guards killed king Duncan. Macbeth is known