King Duncan is coming over to Macbeth's castle and Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are planning to kill King Duncan. (Evening) Lady Macbeth is there to greet the king and Macbeth is not so the king states that he wants to see Macbeth. (During the dinner) Macbeth was deep in thought while everyone else was communicating. Even after the commotion of the storm doors being blown open he still doesn't budge to look or talk. Macbeth eventually left the table and he looks like something is going on like he is thinking to himself. Lady Macbeth noticed Macbeth left and left to follow him. I overheard them talking. Macbeth said they will not go further in the business and that ¨he¨”honored him. Lady Macbeth was calling Macbeth a coward and asking him what …show more content…
Banquo is saying he can not sleep. Banquo tells Macbeth that he had a dream about the three sisters and Banquo left. Macbeth starts to be in thought again and is reaching at something and talking to himself. Macbeth starts to look up as if he see something in front of him and follow it with his dagger out but stops and eventually he actually leaves with his dagger still out towards the king's door. I then heard a bell out of nowhere but I did not get where it was coming from. Macbeth then walks into the room. (Next morning) The next morning there was someone banging on the castle gates. The guard let the men in and they ask if the king has awoken. They came to get the king so the king can go to the next place he has to go. Macbeth replies he has not awoken yet. Macduff goes to check on the king and when he comes out he states that the king is dead. Macduff asks to ring the alarm bell. The guards wake up with blood on them and their swords which makes it seems like they murdered the king. Macbeth states that he was so angry he killed the guards. There is a bloody mess in the room where King Duncan was killed and Lady Macbeth started crying and fell
At the start of Act 1, Scene 2 Macbeth is shown brave and loyal with
The Ways in Which the Different Characters in Macbeth React to the Murder of Duncan
Little does Duncan know that this is a murder plot set up by Macbeth and his wife. Macbeth then becomes king and ends up having Banquo murdered because the witches also predicted that Banquo’s children will become king. Macbeth then goes to talk with the witches again
to plan out her murder on Duncan to ensure that her husband is to be
She says he is too kind to commit such a deed, but she is going to
“O! yet I do repent me of my fury, That I did kill them.” (2.3.103-104). Macbeth was very fearful that the servants would remember what had happened to Duncan if they were still alive, even though Macbeth set them up to make them appear guilty. Again, near the end of the play, Macbeth is having more and more hallucinations now and they are happening more frequency, “It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood” (3.4.121). At the inauguration dinner for Macbeth being crowned king, Banquo’s ghost sits in the current King’s chair and Macbeth beings to become agitated and loses his composure around the Thanes and other Lords; at that time, Macbeth feels pressured by the sins he has committed in the past.
Lady Macbeth, being ruthless, tries to convince Macbeth to kill King Duncan, but his conscience is stronger than his ambition. He feels that the king is at his palace in “double-trust”; he is his host and he should not be holding the knife to kill the king. When he says, “We will proceed no further in this business” (I. vii. 31. He does not want to follow through with Lady Macbeth’s plan.
In scene one, the setting is revealed. It is late, past midnight, and there are no stars, making extremely dark and a dramatically perfect opportunity to commit murder. In any good horror movie, all the deaths occur at night, when it is dark. The location is a castle, which would have to be the eeriest, coldest, darkest piece of architecture ever constructed. Banquo’s “cursèd thoughts” (II, i, 8) keep him without sleep, in exact contrast with the eternal sleep Duncan will soon begin. Then, as Banquo retreats to his quarters, Macbeth’s imagination and intensified emotional exhaustion and strain generate a looming image of a dagger pointing to Duncan. “I see thee still . . .” (II, i, 35), he yells at the vision, creating a sense of madness. Again, “I see thee still . . .” (II, i, 45), but this time the hallucination is glistening with blood (and in all likely hood, that of Duncan). He casts this apparition aside and awaits his signal to make the final walk into his beloved king’s chambers. The bell rang by Lady Macbeth interrupts this thick, tense mood and startles the audience to either jump out of their seat or creep slowly to the edge of their seat. This also related to a popular sermon of the same time period, Meditation 17 by John Donne. A famous excerpt from it reads, “. . . and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee . . . ” (Donne, 284).
In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the repercussions of Macbeth murdering his King are very numerous. Through themes that include, imagery, soliloquies, atmosphere, and supernatural beings, Shakespeare enforces the magnitude of Macbeth’s crime. Most of these factors are linked together.
Macbeth is starting to get a weird feeling that Banquo is starting to turn against him and gabbana going to expose him to the world. Macbeth is getting a temptation to kill Banquo and his son so that Banquo's prophecy does not come true. The witches said that Fleance was going to be king soon after. That made Macbeth worry that he would be murder so that Fleance would become king. Macbeth sends three people out to kill Banquo and his son “Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Scarf up the tender eye of the pit full day, and with thy bloody and invisible hand.”(shakespeare 367). This is what macbeth told the mudders before they killed banquo and his son. The murders ended up killing banquo but his son was able to escape and live. They told Macbeth that the son got away and Macbeth was very angry. He started to see thing again just like before when he saw the dager. This time he saw Mcbeth sitting in his seat and started to make a big sean infront of all of his guest at dinner. After this people start to to understand that Macbeth was not a good person. He then started to go after Macduff because he knew what Macbeth had done. Macduff fled scotland and went to england. When Mcbeth found out where he went and to punish Macduff he killed his family. Then eventually Mcduff convinced the king of england declared war on scotland and Macbeth was killed by Macduff on the
Macbeth is told that Banquo is dead, but Fleance has escaped and Macbeth says that Fleance is like a serpent and will not be a problem just yet but will eventually become one. Macbeth then see Banquo’s ghost at the table and stops dead in his tracks, with horror on his face he begins talking to the ghost. Lady Macbeth covers the scene with saying that Macbeth has delusions. The ghost leaves and then the table makes a toast to Banquo and the ghost reenters causing Macbeth to scream at the ghost to leave, his wife, once again covers his outbursts with saying that he has delusions and they bid the lord farewell. Macbeth says that he will go see the weird sisters and says that he is not in his right senses. The three witches meet with Hecate,
Macbeth would have killed King duncan even if his wife wanted him to or not. When he found out that he would become king from the witches he wanted fame and fortune and for his family to be in control. He acted like he would have killed the king because of the way he acted towards Banquo, more distance not as welcoming and friendly. The encouragement definitely came from his wife but his overall decision was made by himself nobody can make you do anything.
The true hand of the death and who's at fault to send such a king down. At the death of the King Duncan making the man named Macbeth the throne. However the death was a life cut shorter than naturally intended. At the silver seductive tongue of Macbeth’s wife has him kill the king over night. Framing others after the deed was done to protect themselves from blame of the treason of such act. Ideas of the deathly hands being not the same but an act to please another named Lady Macbeth.
Macbeth's Murder of Duncan in William Shakespeare's Macbeth Shakespeare uses the Greek idea of Tragedy in his play 'Macbeth' when he focuses on one character with a fatal flaw that brings him greatness but eventually leads to his downfall. However, 'Macbeth' is not a typical example of a Greek Tragedy: A Greek hero would not be responsible for his down fall, whereas Macbeth brings it on himself. Macbeth's ambition is the main factor in driving him to murder. Other factors such as the predictions of the witches and Lady Macbeth's persuasive techniques have a part in Macbeth's transformation, although his ambition is the driving force. Macbeth's encounter with the witches early on in Act one introduces the idea that he could become King. '
Back in the 1600s, when the Renaissance age existed monarchies existed everywhere in Europe and some parts of Asia. The kings ruled the country and was considered the leader who made all the countries decision from war to education. So when a king dies or gets murdered it would have a huge impact on its people because they lost their ruler. In Macbeth, King Duncan is murdered in his sleep by Macbeth and numerous reactions of characters are revealed. Some reactions are positive and some are negative to the situation. In the end it’s a comparison of an ordinary person's death and a king's death, which seems more important.