Macbeth: The Third Murderer

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Shakespeare's Macbeth is known as one of his most popular plays, both for school program and performance. In a play we can see action and portrayal of human relationships which can inspire us differently. One of the most interesting things that makes a play more unique is an issue with third unknown murderer, who brings popularity to this play with different theories and opinions. Each suspect has his or her own attestation for being the Third Murderer, and each suspect has a reasoning of why they aren't. So, who could be the mysterious third murderer? Even through writer didn’t tell us the murderers look or name, we still have nice amount of hooks which can held us to proper suspicion. There are always new pieces of substantiation emerging, however, the majority of the evidences supports Seyton as the Third Murderer. Despite the fact he has less words in a play he played important role in culminations of a story. The third murderer is shown to be important, as the entire first eight lines of the scene is spent introducing him. People say the murderer should be really important person, but introduction merely …show more content…

They didn't blame Banquo for their unhappiness at the beginning and didn't decide to kill him until after Macbeth convinced them to. Macbeth could not fully trust two men. Seyton would have known Banquo and Fleance well enough to identify them from having probably spent time with him and Macbeth at Macbeth's castle, would have known the land even better from having worked there for so long, and could have been trusted with such a deed. With Seyton being one of the only people still on Macbeth's side during the story, which can give us a thought that there is a reason why Macbeth trusted him and reason which proves his loyalty and faithfulness towards

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