steps! So many thoughts going there his mind‚ but why did he do it? You can clearly see that he regrets it‚ so why did he kill the king? Was it for himself or was Lady Macbeth’s pressure to much so he did or maybe was it the witches put a spell on him? I I have done my research and I strongly believe that it was his wife’s fault she pushed him into killing King Duncan! So first off most people won’t realize the hold a wife has over her husband‚until they’re married! In one part of the book she called
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The tragedy of Macbeth is a tale of love like no other. In the opening of the play‚ Macbeth is introduced as a powerful‚ trusted warrior for King Duncan of Scotland. However‚ his wife‚ Lady Macbeth‚ is powered by greed and her ambition for power. Ambition‚ a strong desire to achieve one’s goals‚ is often a good aspect. However‚ Lady Macbeth’s ambition to become the Queen caused her to guilt Macbeth into committing many distasteful acts by questioning his masculinity and using the power of love. Ultimately
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before the murder of King Duncan in terms of how he was as a man‚ how people saw him‚ his attributes. Act 1 scene 3: “If chance will have me king‚ why‚ chance may crown me‚ without my stir” Macbeth was a noble and loyal man to the king and Scotland and had a good ‘reputation’ before he killed the king‚ however his determination to become the king of Scotland had taken over his thoughts with the help from the witches prophesies and Lady Macbeth. People saw him as the Kings cousin‚ a fighter‚ a
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Macbeth wants to be King so bad that he will do everything and anything that will get him there. Throughout the play you begin to notice the need of power and the monstrous side of Macbeth. He turns into an evil fanatic who only desires power. In this tragedy‚ Macbeth is portrayed as a vicious‚ unpleasant man who kills his own cousin‚ King Duncan. Macbeth has the perfect resume to be King‚ but there is one thing standing in the way of that happening. His cousin Duncan is currently King‚ so Macbeth comes
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possible power to spin out of control. She uses all of her womanly influence to manipulate him into killing his cousin‚ Duncan‚ to become king. She goes so far as to question his manhood if he does not kill him. This play is about darkness and evil or about riddles or paradoxes. The weather reflects the stormy passions that will lead
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witches foretell that he shall be king‚ his ambition tempts him to “yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix [his] hair.”-[1] Macbeth later goes on to describe his ambition as “my black and deep desires‚”-[1] which can show that Macbeth himself knows his ambition is evil. His ambition soon drives him to murder Duncan all “for [his] own good.”-[1] When one looks at Lady Macbeth‚ one can also see the ambition she has to ensure that Macbeth becomes king and she queen. She knows that Macbeth
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After King Duncan is murdered by macbeth‚ we learn from the Old Man and Ross that some strange and "unnatural" things have been going on. Even though it’s the middle of the day‚ the "dark night strangles the traveling lamp‚" which literally means that darkness fills the sky and chokes out the sun‚ i.e. an eclipse. Could this be another allusion to the way the king’s life has been extinguished (kings are often associated with the sun’s power) and his power usurped by "darkness" (macbeth)? Probably
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means for Macbeth to look welcoming‚ innocent and kind‚ but deep down in his heart to become the devil without showing any of his thoughts. During this whole act (1.5) Lady Macbeth tries to be something that she is not. She acts kind to kind Duncan during his stay at Inverness but she is actually planning his death to become Queen of Scotland. This shows her ambition‚ but Lady Macbeth lacks the ability to become a murderer. “False face must hide what the false heart doth know”. (Page 45
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upgraded to King‚ after hearing this prophecy he is both sceptical and filled with joy. Moments after Macbeth hears this news he is made Thane of Cawdor‚ which has made one half of the witches prophecy appear to be truthful. With the news Macbeth writes
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the assassination of Duncan king of Scotland. The overall mood and atmosphere the night of Duncan’s murder is very strange. Some events that happened was the dream that Banquo dreamed‚ also the things Fleance hears and what Lady Macbeth hears and finally the events that the old man tells Ross that happened that night the assassination happened. Banquo’s dream foreshadows that are about to happen later in the scene. The dream also foreshadows the assassination of king Duncan. Scared Banquo tells
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