Who is to blame for the death of King Duncan in the play Macbeth?
Who is to blame for the death of King Duncan in the play Macbeth?
In this essay I am going to look at who is to blame for the murder of King Duncan. James I was superstitious and he was paranoid about the supernatural and he was afraid he would be killed. The reason why James I was scared was because he’s family got killed by witches. Kings were representations of god. In the olden days people were scared of supernatural beings such as witches. Witches use rhyming couplets such as ‘again’ and ‘rain’ because they were chanting. The witches set the scene by picking out the thunder, lightening or rain. The witches decide to set a terrible whether as to show they are evil and terrifying. They are also seen as controllers of fate. Macbeth believed that the witches were casting a spell on him. Lady Macbeth, a ruthless, evil character has a terrible ambition to become what she desires for example
“have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, and dash’d the brains out”.
This is referring to lady Macbeth would seriously harm her own child in order to achieve her goal. The role lady Macbeth plays within the play is the devils adverka, (the devil himself or his associate). Lady Macbeth also plays as the control freak, she orders Macbeth around as if she is the boss of him. Lady Macbeth also questions Macbeth’s manhood such as using similes like
“Poor cat I the adage”
This means that he wants a fish but doesn’t want to get his feet wet. Lady Macbeth also encourages Macbeth to kill King Duncan; she does this by the use of rhetorical questions such as,
“Was the hope drunk”,
This represents Lady Macbeth using sarcasm because she accuses him of being the kind of person who wears wringley robes only when he is drunk. In the beginning of the play Macbeth was a ‘brave’ soldier. We know this because in the passage it explains,
“He bade me, from him, call thee thane of cawdor”.
This represents that Macbeth used to be an important
In this essay I am going to look at who is to blame for the murder of King Duncan. James I was superstitious and he was paranoid about the supernatural and he was afraid he would be killed. The reason why James I was scared was because he’s family got killed by witches. Kings were representations of god. In the olden days people were scared of supernatural beings such as witches. Witches use rhyming couplets such as ‘again’ and ‘rain’ because they were chanting. The witches set the scene by picking out the thunder, lightening or rain. The witches decide to set a terrible whether as to show they are evil and terrifying. They are also seen as controllers of fate. Macbeth believed that the witches were casting a spell on him. Lady Macbeth, a ruthless, evil character has a terrible ambition to become what she desires for example
“have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, and dash’d the brains out”.
This is referring to lady Macbeth would seriously harm her own child in order to achieve her goal. The role lady Macbeth plays within the play is the devils adverka, (the devil himself or his associate). Lady Macbeth also plays as the control freak, she orders Macbeth around as if she is the boss of him. Lady Macbeth also questions Macbeth’s manhood such as using similes like
“Poor cat I the adage”
This means that he wants a fish but doesn’t want to get his feet wet. Lady Macbeth also encourages Macbeth to kill King Duncan; she does this by the use of rhetorical questions such as,
“Was the hope drunk”,
This represents Lady Macbeth using sarcasm because she accuses him of being the kind of person who wears wringley robes only when he is drunk. In the beginning of the play Macbeth was a ‘brave’ soldier. We know this because in the passage it explains,
“He bade me, from him, call thee thane of cawdor”.
This represents that Macbeth used to be an important